Musings of a West Texas Business Venture

Dude, I got a Dell!

As mentioned before, I've been looking for a new laptop for a few weeks. I've looked at laptop models from all of the major players including Lenovo, Toshiba, Acer, HP/Compaq, and Sony. I also looked at models from Sager and ASUS for build-your-own laptops.

My goals were:

• Under $2,000
• 2GB of RAM
• Easy linux installation (ideally Fedora Core 5)
• 80GB or more hard drive
• Less than 7lbs. (Lighter is better)
  
• As fast as possible
• Better than 1200x800 resolution screen
• nVidia graphics card
  

The best laptop that I found meeting those criteria is the Dell Latitude D820. The model that I picked out should be perfect. This bad-boy laptop comes with a 15.4 WUGA inch screen at 1920x1200, with a 9 cell battery (more than 5 hours of battery), an 80GB hard disk, 2GB of RAM (upgradeable to 4GB), under $1,500, a 256MB nvidia graphics card, and with a new Intel Duo Core processor (running at 1.83Ghz). It is also only about 6.4lbs!

I ordered it from palmetto_computer on eBay recently, and am expecting it by next Thursday.

Even better, it runs linux almost natively!

posted by Anthony Presley @ 9:12 PM