New Laptop.. what do you think?

[EduTech]

Evening, Well i finally found the time to get me a new laptop!

 

Thanks to simon and joe at CPLTD i have a nice Dell Studio 17 coming next week.

 

Just wondering what people thought of the spec, i went with this one as well the XPS after compairing them i would of paid more just for a name.. and the HP model's were just really expensive to get anywhere near this spec.

 

Studio 1737 : Intel Core 2 Duo T9400 (2.53GHz,1066MHz,6MB)

 

Display : 17in Widescreen WXGA+ with Truelife- CCFL

 

Free Logitech V220 Cordless Mouse Blue - 'Designed for Dell'

 

Camera : Integrated 2.0 Mega Pixel Camera

 

LCD Back Cover : Midnight Blue Microsatin Finish

 

Memory : 4096MB (2x2048) 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel

 

Hard Drive : 500GB Serial ATA (5.400RPM) Dual Hard Drive (2x 250GB)

 

Optical Drive : Blu-ray Disc (DVD+/-RW + BD-ROM) Drive including SW

 

Battery : Primary 6 cell 56W/HR LI-ION

 

Graphics : 256 MB ATI Mobility RADEON HD 3650

 

Remote Control : Travel Remote Control Express Card

 

Wireless : Europe Dell Bluetooth 370 Card

 

Wireless : Intel WiFi Link 5100 (802.11 a/b/g/n 1X2) 1/2 MiniCard European

 

Operating System : English Genuine Windows Vista SP1 Home Premium including

 

James.

[Haptic]

Always a pleasure fella!

[john]

I'm a HP Guy, always have been and always will be and the last XP I played with, wasn't that spec or model I think, was its predecessor it was faaaar to heavy (I know they ain't a netbook in weight at all being 17" but it was excessively heavy compared to my HP 17" which was the original 17" HP made back 5 years ago now if not longer!) So hope they have made them lighter and hope the case is stronger as its chipped the one that I know that exists.

[kentt]

I nearly got my daughter the 15" version for Xmas, but ended up getting the Inspiron 1525 as stock of the Studio could not be G'teed for Christmas. But from what research I did at the time they seem to have a very good reputation. The only other difference was that I was going to spec the LED back lighting.