1.6 GHz Pentium M
Gig of memory(2x 512 MB DIMMs)
80 GB 4.2k RPM hard drive
802.11 b/g card
24x CDRW/DVD-ROM drive

Won't have it for another month unfortunately. No video card unfortunately, but the onboard card is "decent" with older 3D games. I can't change any of the hardware unfortunately, but it is costing about $600 less than it would to normally buy it. (Have to get it through school, which gets it cheaper but forces a set hardware configuration.)

Well, as long as you can format it straight away to get rid of any pre-installed crap, and be able to upgrade it I reckon you've done rather well there

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Well, there shouldn't be any preinstalled crap on it(since it's not a standard consumer deal), but if there was it wouldn't be a big deal. Comes with full XP pro installation disc though, not some crappy "recovery" BS.

Best part of all though, it's only 4.7 lbs. =)

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That's good - they normally do come with those ****ty discs that I just chuck out. My laptop came with XP Pro full too(Hugs Geoff)!

(Geoff's my laptop btw )

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I could build that system for 300, if not less. How much is it costing you?

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It'll mostly just be used for class stuff and to have a PC when I come home on weekends without having to lug my 19" monitor and 40 lb case each trip, hehe.

Might play a few older games on it on the weekends, but nothing too big.

And you could build a laptop for $300 when the case/screen alone would cost around $900, the memory around $400-$500, processor around $300-$400, hard drive, etc.

It's a *laptop*, Skippy. I'd never buy a prebuilt desktop for the life of me.

Oh, and I just looked, apparently 32 MB Radeon 9000's are standard for D600s now. I imagine it's part of their chipset or something. It's got its own dedicated memory though, no sucky shared. And that will do pretty well.

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Oh, my bad, thought it was a prebuilt of some fashion.

But the memory costs the same as desktop memory, the processor a bit more than an Athlon XP, etc. It's not really that expensive.

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I really suck with laptop hardware prices, since I don't keep up with them much, but they're still not to the stage where they're worth building yet.

I think they use either PC2100 or PC 2700 SO-DIMM DDR, and a gig of that is like $200. I was off on that, don't keep up with notebook memory after all. Still a bit more than desktop memory.

1.6 GHz Pentium M Dothan runs anywhere between $300 and $400 though.

Oh, a Pentium. That's your price problem

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There is no price problem.

And Pentium M's are *nice*.

So are Athlon XP-M's. And I was kidding.

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Don't even try to start your processor war crap here.

I wasn't, but hey, you know you can interperet any way you want. You'd just be wrong.

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I'm a huge AMD fanboy, but in fact the Pentium M is the best on the market in the portable sector right now. AMD can't compete.

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Brad is right. XP-M is no where near as good as Centrino Mobile

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Precisely why there's no point in arguing it, hehe. It really is no contest.

WTF?! I didn't even say it was better or as good. I just said it was good too. Brad--I know, and I agree 100%--that is unless you're looking to overclock your desktop with an Athlon XP-M.

Darth--learn to not judge, thanks. Unless of course you like being ignorant.

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I've seen plenty of examples of your attitude and behavior. Don't need to see any more to make my opinion.

Desktop memory 512MB PC27/3200 = $99 give or take $10
Laptop memory 512MB PC21/2700 = $129, sometimes $119

Laptop HDs:
20 GB = $89
40 GB = $109-129
60 GB = $169-189
80 GB = $249

Just thought I'd share.

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[This message has been edited by JudgeDredd (edited July 26, 2004).]

Actually... Newegg has many different brands of PC2100 and 2700 512 MB SODIMMs in the $90-$110 range.

And 80 GB 4200 RPM drives for ~$160.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-145-484&depa=0 That's some good crack you're smoking, Judge.

And my behavior has nothing to do with it. I don't argue with people unless there's something to argue about. How about being less of a jack*** next time.

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I'm thinking about buying this for college.

An Athlon 64 3200+ for $1250 seems like a really good deal.