Ahhh..Computers

[shadowkat]

After three frustrating hours on the dell site, I finally bought myself
a lap-top today, just in time to save $429.25 on the system, $24 on shipping and handling, and get a free printer to boot. Don't really need the free printer, have a cheap Epson. But who knows, could always sell or give away the Epson and keep the Dell. I chose Dell, because every single solitary person I asked online and off suggested Dell. Three people at work, a friend, my landlord, my parents, you guys, it was getting ridiculous. Don't know what happened to gateway.

What took so much time was making choices. They give you far too many options in my opinion.

I picked the 6000m Inspirion, which everyone seemed to recommend. And had the best deal.

Intel Pent. M. Processor 730 (1.60 Ghz/2MB Cache/533/Mhz FSB)
15.4 inch W/XGA LCD Panel
512 MB Shared DDR SDRAM 2Dimms
Intergrated Intel Media Accelerator 900 Graphics (no choice given)
60GB Hard Drive (not planning on downloading movies or tv shows, but might do videos and music.)
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Intergrated 10/100 Network Card and Modem (comes with)
Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 (free didn't choose, comes with)
24X CD Burner/DVD Combo Drive
Intel Pro/Wireless 2200 Internal Wireless (free, didn't choose it, comes with)
Musicmatch Jukebox Basic
Norton Internet Security 2005 AntiSpyware Edition 15 months (free and with packet - you can also get MacAfee, went with Norton, may go with Avast once expires.)
9cel Lithium Ion Primary Battery (80Whr)
Dial-up and High-Speed = EarthLink
External USB Floppy Drive (since I have most of my stuff on floppies.)

Considered getting the program that switches everything from one computer to the other, but since I'm still keeping my PC and just discontinuing internet access on it - don't see as too much of a problem. Floppies and CD's should be enough.

Thanks for the help all. Mucho appreciated!

Also defragmented my hard drive this weekend. Plus cleaned the bathroom and the kitchen. Did laundry and saw the doctor. Yay me!

Comments

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the advice on Adobe - don't use it very often, but good to know. I think we have 7.0 at work. Not sure. Am horrible at keeping track of those things.

BTW, you don't need to disconnect your old PC from the internet. You can't be on the net at the same time with both PC's (unless they're networked), but you can log off with one and then log back on with the other. I often use my older PC if I'm surfing sites I'm not familiar with, because if it gets hit with a virus, it's no biggee. (So far hasn't happened, but you never know).

Did not know this. I assume I can use the Earthlink for both. PC has to stay dial-up though, no ethernet card.