An embarrassing question. What is the official 2+2 laptop?

[DING-DONG YO]

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By the way, the advice in this thread is wrong. Correct answer is Dell Inspiron 9300, and it's not even close.

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And like the 6000, the 9300 is now only available used or refurbished.

The E1705 is Dell's only consumer-level notebook available new with WUXGA.

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The inspiron 9400 is available now. It has the WUXGA.

[challenger84]

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I see people recommending Dell Inspiron - I cannot agree. These boxes are manufactured for home use, and Dell intentionally cuts quality on the components for home-use product, and the high prices are simply not justified. (Dell's business line, on the other hand, is rock solid - e.g., the Latitude).

Dell still has a good name, but they are taking advantage of it right now, and designing their products to fail slightly after the one-year warranty period. Don't be suckered.

I've posted before on this topic, with an example of an Inspiron with a power connecter (integrated on the motherboard) that consisted of 5 very thin copper strands for connectivity. There is only design purpose for using thin copper strands for the power exchange: so that the friction will wear them away with each use of the recharger. As an everyday user of the Inspiron, my total failure occurred at 13 months - just as designed.

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I'm 99% sure this was due to user incompetance.

[tom10167]

How?

[Ignignokt]

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The inspiron 9400 is available now. It has the WUXGA.

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I must need glasses then because I don't see it. Could you point it out to me?

http://www.dell.com/content/products...l=en&s=dhs

[DING-DONG YO]

Go back to the home page and click on "small business". It's under there. Not really sure of the difference between the 9400 and E1705, though. They look pretty similar.

[revots33]

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The E1705 is Dell's only consumer-level notebook available new with WUXGA.


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The E1705 is what I got and so far I'm very happy with it. With the WUXGA display 4 tables w/no overlap is no problem.

If you buy Dell make sure to check out a site like Coupon Mountain for discount codes. There's almost always a coupon deal. I added options to mine to get the price up to $1999, which entitled me to $750 off. Basically got every option I'd want for $1250.

[jdog1999]

Here's my .02: I have used Dells for about 8 years. The Inspirons had some inferior parts about 4 to 5 years ago in my opinion, I think now the Inspiron is a great laptop I use the 6000 and have not had a single issue.

BTW I am an IT manager and all I will purchase are Dells.

[FrogMouth]

Sweet deal on a decent Dell, just upgrade to WUXGA...

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/c...5DOD1&s=dhs

[AA Suited]

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daveT wrote:
Sorry, just jumped into OL poker, b&m is killing me, well rather, I would like to try something different for a while.

I presently own a mac os. Looking at all the downloads, the common thread seems to be PC. I would like to buy a new laptop.

What is the most proficient PC 'book out there?
Does anyone use mac?
Intel or AMD?
WiFi?
I don't use blue-tooth, so I would use an external mouse.

I see Dell inspiron alot on this site. I guess this is the main enchilada, huh?

Thanks for the help.

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I have a 35% off $999 Dell Inspiron coupon code if you want. expires 7/12/06

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The Dell XPS M2010 is probably the coolest laptop I've ever seen. I want one, badly.