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!

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[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

They do have ungodly wait times - I tried to call them for customer support recently on a Sat morning and was told the wait time was 10 min.
Gave up and came online to ask instead.

That said - they were quite helpful in the past. And haven't needed them much. Others I've spoken with, have no complaints. They'll actually try to help unlike MSN.