It's a Dell Inspiron 9300 that cost 1500, but I got it for 900 (600 instant coupon savings).

It includes:
-Inspiron 9300 Intel® Pentium® M Processor 740 (1.73 GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB)
Display 17 inch Wide Screen XGA+ Display

Memory 512MB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz 2 Dimm

Video Card 256MB NVIDA® GeForce™ Go 6800

Hard Drive 60GB 5400rpmHard Drive

Operating System (Office software not included) Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005

Network Card Integrated 10/100 Network Card and Modem

Adobe Software Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 6.0

CD/DVD Drives FREE! 8x CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer write capability
8XDVDRP

Wireless Networking Card Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200 Internal Wireless (802.11 b/g, 54Mbps)

Office Software (not included in Windows XP) No productivity suite- Corel WordPerfect word processor only

Anti-Virus/Security Suite (Pre-installed) No Security Subscription

Primary Battery 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery (53 WHr)

Hardware Warranty 1Yr Ltd Warranty, 1Yr Mail-In Service, and 1Yr HW Warranty Support

Dial-Up Internet Access 6 Months of America Online Membership Included

Miscellaneous Award Winning Service & Support

Financial Software No QuickBooks package selected - includes limited use trial

Operating System Backup & Recovery Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center 2005 Edition backup CD

Dell Digital Entertainment Starter Entertainment Pack - Basic digital Music, Photo and Game experience
- and a free colour printer


should look like that, and get here a few days before x-mas itself.




I had to pay for $500 of it, and it should be here a day or two before X-mas (so I wont have too much of an urge to tear it open before I should). I've been debating getting a laptop for a while, so it's about time !

Very nice, I like the specifications although I would upgrade to 1GB Ram. I also like the color.

As I sit at my 2 year old desktop PC I wish I had instead gotten a laptop for the ability to be mobile and not stuck in one spot.


A good unbloated, faster loading replacement is Foxit PDF Reader.

I've never tried it however there's a freeware one called Open Office.

Dude, you got a dell.

I want it

Oh, I actually already have a copy of Office XP, that's why I didn't purchase it.

And adobe reader is ok, but i'll check out the other app when i get my laptop

A guy at work just this week got the same model. I spent a few minutes looking at it - very nice computer. Enjoy!

how will 5400rpm affect my performance for every day computing and the rare occason that i game? will it be significant?

and how about xga as opposed to uxga. thnaks

Now go and buy an external sound card

another nice thing to try is AdobeReaderSpeedUp.
not by much AFAIK, it's not really noticeable at gaming. besides, you would not want a faster HD because of power consumption.

OpenOffice is great, I recently uninstalled MS Office from my PC in favor of it.

wow this thing is amazing, merry xmas all.

no, openoffice is Open Source software.

Blah technicalities, however you're correct!

=) ... not only a technicall diference. at the very basic, most of the time, freeware is only free for personal "non comercial" use. there is no such a problem with open source.

Yeah it's a big difference between open source and freeware. You're quoting had me a bit confused at first, however I figured it out.

fixed it.

I dont mind Office 2003

I don't either, especially after buying it and all when I got my XP system a couple of years ago. However, I must admit had I known anything about Open Office I would have instead used it, and saved some $300 dollars.