decent price on this laptop?

[Fender]

Studio 17 Qty 1
Studio 17 Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T8100 (2.1GHz/800Mhz FSB/3MB cache) Unit Price $989.00
Catalog Number: 23 RNDWVA3
Module Description Show Details
System Color Option Jet Black
Operating System Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition SP1
Studio 17 Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T8100 (2.1GHz/800Mhz FSB/3MB cache)
LCD Panel Glossy widescreen 17.0 inch display (1440x900)
Video Card 256MB ATI MOBILITY RADEON HD 3650
Memory 4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2
Hard Drive Size: 250GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)
Combo or DVD+RW Drive 8X Slot Load CD / DVD Burner (Dual Layer DVD+/-R Drive)
Wireless Networking Cards Dell 1397 Wireless-G Card
Bluetooth Option Dell Wireless 370 Bluetooth Internal (2.0)
Battery Options 56 Whr Lithium Ion Battery (6 cell)
Sound Card High Definition Audio 2.0
Built-in Keyboard Options Standard Keyboard (included in the price)
Finger Print Reader Module NO FINGER PRINT READER
Adobe Software Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 8.1
Anti-Virus/Security Suite (Pre-installed) McAfee SecurityCenter with anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, 36-months
Office Productivity Software (Pre-Installed) Microsoft Works
Service 2Yr Ltd Hardware Warranty, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis
DataSafe Included 3 GB DataSafe Online Backup for 1Yr

[Captain]

That sounds like a pretty darn good price to me. Is Studio 17 some new lineup of Dell notebooks?

[Doombrain]

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro3,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled


BAM

[Fender]

^ Price? Guessing about double.

That sounds like a pretty darn good price to me. Is Studio 17 some new lineup of Dell notebooks?

My FedEx discount is $474!

Don't know how long these models have been out. They are between the Inspirons and the XPSs.

[AmIdYfReAk]

yea fender, it seems like a good price..

i've never delt with those lappies, but if they are like any of there newer stuff, they are good little books.. as long as you take care of them ( as per any laptop )

[Captain]

No wonder Sheridan still uses the IBM Lenovo Thinkpad R61 notebooks. Some students tend to drop them about 10 times per semester and they still work fine. Those things are hard as rock.

Heck, I got hit by a car with the laptop in my bag and it's still working

[AmIdYfReAk]

yea, and working with them with the laptop's as well as the servers was easy..

we ordered 20 replacement feet ( we only needed about 10 ) for the laptop's ( end of term cleanings ) And they shipped us a Box ( 2500 ) instead, free of charge.

and yea, they take/took alot of beatings without to much of a hiccup, it just sucked that the spec's of them where on the rather low side, and bringing your own lappy wasn't an option... they added that right before i left.

[obsidian]

Got any good stories about your creative uses for 2500 laptop rubber replacement feet?

[AmIdYfReAk]

Tube + Compressed air = School Sniper

a few of us would hide and wait for one or the other workers to go classroom to classroom and fill the paper, then shoot the Rubber feet at them...

[SoM]

thread = T&T

[Fender]

This has 32 bit Vista. I should just drop to 3 GB RAM, right. There's still the issue w/ 32 bit OSs not fully utilizing 4 GB RAM, right?

[Doombrain]

yep, there is a way to unlock it be it won't really help.

[Doombrain]

mine only sees 2.98gig, i have 4 installed (XP SP3)

[Captain]

This has 32 bit Vista. I should just drop to 3 GB RAM, right. There's still the issue w/ 32 bit OSs not fully utilizing 4 GB RAM, right?

No reason not to get 64-bit, unless it's not an option on that model. Might as well make full use of your 4GB.