Just ordered new laptop, is it good?

[uclabruinz]

Cancel your order, you paid way too much.

I have this exact laptop. I didn't read all your options so no idea how they differ. It's a good laptop, but it's really, really big and bulky, so if you travel a lot I would ditch it in favor of something more manageable. In this day of resizeable tables the humongous screen is pretty unnecessary, particularly given you can plug in your second monitor when at home. I actually thought about selling mine because I do travel quite a bit but I will probably keep it for now to avoid the hassle.

[Mingdu]

Sales Practices at Dell Draw New York Suit

By JONATHAN P. HICKS
Published: May 17, 2007
NY Times

The New York attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, announced yesterday that his office had filed a lawsuit against Dell Inc. and its Dell Financial Services unit, accusing them of deceptive business practices.

[TheNewf]

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Cancel your order, you paid way too much.

I have this exact laptop. I didn't read all your options so no idea how they differ. It's a good laptop, but it's really, really big and bulky, so if you travel a lot I would ditch it in favor of something more manageable. In this day of resizeable tables the humongous screen is pretty unnecessary, particularly given you can plug in your second monitor when at home. I actually thought about selling mine because I do travel quite a bit but I will probably keep it for now to avoid the hassle.

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I have a 17" screen too and I love it, I really don't find it to be that inconvenient at all when travelling. Too lazy to looks specifically at everything but 4K+ is a lot of money, you must have upgraded a ton of stuff that you just won't ever notice/need.

[NoahSD]

One more vote for 17". I'm about to get a new laptop, and I'm getting a 17" again.

I traveled a good amount with this one, and it was totally fine.

[WarDekar]

I had a 19" compaq previously (1920x1200 max-res) but last year bought a MacBook for travel purposes. Honestly if you're spending a lot of money on a laptop I'd recommend the most pimped out MacBook Pro you can get. It'll cost a lot less than the one you configured at Dell and it'll be a helluva lot better.

Dell laptops = pieces of [censored], honestly

[uclabruinz]

Well I guess it's all a matter of how much you travel, how you travel, and how much you use it in other portable ways. No question that a heavy clunker with a big screen is the best way to go if your primary usage is far and away at a desk. But, for example, it's very, very difficult to use on a plane. The only reason I went huge was for multi-tabling, but now that I can resize on Stars and Tilt it really isn't necessary.

Anyway, it's all a tradeoff. Because I am constantly taking mine everywhere, I'd much rather have a 4 lb smaller one then this 50 lb giant.

[WarDekar]

Yeah and a nice MacBook Pro is still quite portable (muuuuuch moreso than Dells), it's got 17" for 1680x1050 (good enough for 9 tabling at least IMO, I've played more on less before), it's slick as [censored], etc. etc.

Laptops go to Dell to die, and then Dell sends them back out to their customers to die

[mflip]

I just got a 17" as well and if I had to choose again I'd get a 17". Definitely think you overpaid for that though. Looks like you got 2gig processor with 2 gigs of RAM and 260GB hard drive which is plenty for whatever you want to do. Can't imagine you'd ever fill that unless you have tons of music/movies. I just got an HP Pavilion dv9317 link for those who want to see. http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddet...=&langid=EN
1.6gig processor with 2gigs of RAM and 160GB hard drive, it was $1400 Canadian. You can definitely get one with the same specs for a lot cheaper than what you paid. Also, I'm not a fan of Dell laptops but that's just me.

[RandALLin]

haha i forgot i did this till i looked at this post again today, awesome.

[Kyer]

Cancel the order. Get an IBM Thinkpad with Win XP.