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10-19-2004, 03:13 AM
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good info from another forum
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It really depends on what you're looking for. The XPS is a big widescreen laptop, with all of the bells and whistles. It's probably the best of them for gaming. P4 HT based with 800mhz FSB, up to 3.4Ghz The 9100 is the same size and weight, with a lower price, but fewer options. P4 with 800mhz FSB. The 8600 is again widescreen, but thinner and lighter. Centrino based. The 5160 is a basic workhorse. 15" 4:3 screen, P4 with HT based. The 700m is an ultraportable with a 12.1" screen, and built in media bay. Those are the top choices for your dollar. [/ QUOTE ] 
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10-19-2004, 03:41 AM
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Re: 10/19 50% off Dell Inspiron Laptops
If you want any type of portability at all, get a Pentium M chip.
8600 is the best 4-tabling P-M laptop you can get, the 700M is the best portable one you can get. Buy the minimum RAM from Dell, they will rip you off. Order separately from crucial.com and install it yourself (very very easy). WUXGA=1920x1200 will have no overlap with 4 tables. WSXGA+ = Will have a little overlap with 4 tables. 1.7GHz is the minimum I'd get for the processor speed. Get the fastest HD you can get (7200RPM), and the biggest, for the 8600 this would be a 60GB 7200RPM HD. Get the Dell Wireless 1450 card, it's the best one you can get. Get the highest capacity batteries, the 8600 can also have dual batteries, I recommend that (can get 8hrs if I want). Get the best graphics card you can, the 8600 it is a 9600 pro I believe.
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10-19-2004, 03:48 AM
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Re: 10/19 50% off Dell Inspiron Laptops
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If you want any type of portability at all, get a Pentium M chip. 8600 is the best 4-tabling P-M laptop you can get, the 700M is the best portable one you can get. Buy the minimum RAM from Dell, they will rip you off. Order separately from crucial.com and install it yourself (very very easy). WUXGA=1920x1200 will have no overlap with 4 tables. WSXGA+ = Will have a little overlap with 4 tables. 1.7GHz is the minimum I'd get for the processor speed. Get the fastest HD you can get (7200RPM), and the biggest, for the 8600 this would be a 60GB 7200RPM HD. Get the Dell Wireless 1450 card, it's the best one you can get. Get the highest capacity batteries, the 8600 can also have dual batteries, I recommend that (can get 8hrs if I want). Get the best graphics card you can, the 8600 it is a 9600 pro I believe. [/ QUOTE ] You're the man thanks. So with the Inspiron 5160 is it just the display thats not as good? Is it really that much faster. I might buy one but I don't really care much about the 4 tabling with no overlap. I wouldn't be buying it for poker. Thanks for any help!
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10-19-2004, 03:53 AM
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Re: 10/19 50% off Dell Inspiron Laptops
Yea whats the big difference between the 5160 and the 8600 if im not using this for any poker related 4 table issue. Seems like the 5160 has a 2.8 minimum and 8600 has a 1.7 minimum. Whats the big difference between the two?
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10-19-2004, 04:01 AM
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Re: 10/19 50% off Dell Inspiron Laptops
the 5160 or whatever, uses a pentium 4. the 8600 uses a pentium M. the pentium M has WAY WAY WAY better battery.
a 1.8ghz P-M is also just as fast a 3.0ghz pentium 4. SO, I would strongly recommend getting the pentium M. another thing, if you are getting a 700M, get the 30GB Hard drive, then replace it yourself with a 60GB 7200RPM drive found here: 60GB 7200RPM Notebook Drive the 700M drives from dell are all 4200RPM, which is QUITE crappy, incredibly crappy actually. you can easily find a guide to replacing the HD on google or something. or notebookforums.com
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10-19-2004, 04:03 AM
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Re: 10/19 50% off Dell Inspiron Laptops
The 2.8 is a standard chip and the 1.7 is a mobile, or Pentium M. The mobiles have far longer battery life -- like sometimes 4x as long depending on what kind of laptop you get and how you use it, and also give out much less heat, which makes for greater lap and hand/wrist comfort and probably prolongs the life of your laptop a bit.
The Pentium M 1.7 performs about the same level as a Pentium 3.0. It will do everything well, including gaming. Dells aren't the best laptops around; I'd stock up on the warranties.
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10-19-2004, 04:04 AM
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10-19-2004, 05:58 AM
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Re: 10/19 50% off Dell Inspiron Laptops
LMAO I still can't make up my mind if I wanna buy this. Anyone else sitting up waiting for this coupon to come into effect.
I want a laptop but don't think I really need this good a one. I can multitable from my PC. I just want a laptop to have one.
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