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About to order Dell Inspiron 9300 - any advice?
Inspiron 9300 Intel® Pentium® M Processor 730 (1.60 GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB)
Operating System Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition Display 17 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen UXGA Display with TrueLife™ (1900x1200) Memory 256MB DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz 1 Dimm (ordered 2 gig to replace this for $250) Video Card 256MB NVIDA® GeForce™ Go 6800 Hard Drive 100GB Hard Drive Network Card Integrated 10/100 Network Card and Modem CD/DVD Drives 8x CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer write capability Wireless Networking Card Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200 Internal Wireless (802.11 b/g, 54Mbps) Primary Battery 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery (53 WHr) Limited Warranty, Services and Support Options 2Yr Ltd Warranty, 2Yr At-Home Service, and 2Yr Technical Support CompleteCare Accidental Damage 2Yr Lim Warranty Additional Battery 9-cell Lithium Ion Additional Battery (80 WHr) Total (after coupons) $1550, +$250 for RAM Anything I'm forgetting? Is it worth it to upgrade the CPU, or to pinmod the 1.6ghz 400mhz fsb CPU considering the hassle it would be? |
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Re: About to order Dell Inspiron 9300 - any advice?
Hey, could you give a link to the exact RAM you bought? I really suck at matching it up so that it's the exact same. Oh yeah, and I just bought a 6000, so it's a smaller screen, but fairly comparable specs, and I love it.
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Re: About to order Dell Inspiron 9300 - any advice?
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...amp;CatId=1726
supposed to be good RAM. lifetime warranty. received mine next day since i live close to a tiger direct warehouse (chicago area)... too bad i wont be able to use it for a few weeks or so when my laptop arrives lol |
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Re: About to order Dell Inspiron 9300 - any advice?
I just received a similar one yesterday. It's huge, which makes it a pain to lug around, but the 17 inch screen is much easier on the eyes than the 15 inch UXGA IMO.
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Re: About to order Dell Inspiron 9300 - any advice?
I work for Dell. If you didn't purchase your system with the Complete Care warranty you might want to upgrade right away. Just a little tip, it's WELL worth it. You drop your laptop from the top of a building, it will be replaced! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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Re: About to order Dell Inspiron 9300 - any advice?
[ QUOTE ]
I work for Dell. If you didn't purchase your system with the Complete Care warranty you might want to upgrade right away. Just a little tip, it's WELL worth it. You drop your laptop from the top of a building, it will be replaced! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] 2 year [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] |
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Re: About to order Dell Inspiron 9300 - any advice?
I would go with the 7200 rpm hard drive I'm not sure if you can get it in 100 gigs but the tradeoff of extra space is worth it imho.
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Re: About to order Dell Inspiron 9300 - any advice?
I just ordered a 9300 with a more pimped out configuration:
Pentium M 760 Processor (2.0GHz/533MHz FSB) UltraSharp Wide Screen WUXGA Display with TrueLife (1920x1200) 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM 533MHz 80GB 7200RPM Hard Drive 256MB nVidia GeForce 6800 with PureVideo Technology 8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD±RW) w/double layer write capability Intel PRO/Wireless 2915 Internal Wireless (802.11 a/b/g,54Mbps) Two 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery (80 WHr) 10/100 Network Card and 56K Modem Dell Wireless 350 Bluetooth Internal(2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate) Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition SP2 3 Year Dell Onsite Warranty with Complete Care Protection Total price: $3050. I dont know if I got hosed or not, but I got sick of shopping around. |
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Re: About to order Dell Inspiron 9300 - any advice?
very nice. cost $1k+ more... did u use the $750 off coupon?
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Re: About to order Dell Inspiron 9300 - any advice?
No, Im getting it from some dude on ebay.
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