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Dell Inspiron 6400 vs Acer TravelMate 8204
I need a new laptop/notebook; my budget, including tax and extended
warrenty is CDN$3000. I think I have it down to two contenders: Dell Inspiron 6400 Intel® Core™ Duo processor T2500 (2MB Cache/2GHz/667MHz FSB) 15.4 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen SXGA+ Display with TrueLife™ 2GB DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHZ, 2 DIMM 100GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive 8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 80 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 802.11a/g Mini Card (54Mbps) Dell Wireless 350 Bluetooth Internal (2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate) Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional By the time you work in tax and 3 year extended warranty it come's to about CDN$2900. Acer TravelMate 8204 Intel® Core™ Duo Processor T2500 (2MB L2 cache, 2.0GHz, 667MHz FSB) 2GB (1/1) DDR2 533 SDRAM 120GB SATA hard drive, 5400RPM modular Super-Multi (DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-RAM) drive 5-in-1 card reader 15.4" WSXGA+ (1680 x 1050) TFT display ATI® MOBILITY™ RADEON® X1600 graphics, 256MB DDR 802.11a/b/g WLAN Bluetooth™ gigabit LAN V.92 modem Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional The BlueTooth VoIP phone and built in web cam are a bonus (although I understand some sort of XP bug at the moment causes the web cam to drain battery even when not in use... fix... ???). I also have read there can be display issues with this model and multiple returns may be needed to get a good one (no light leak, spots, bright display, etc...) By the time you work in tax and 3 year extended warranty it come's to about CDN$3000. I want to use it as a desktop replacment development machine (XP Pro, MS SQL, IIS, VB, .NET, HTML, ASP, etc...) but also be able to play my MP3s and DVDs (on a plane, etc... I have a home DVD player!). I am not at all into gaming... so the super high end graphics (X1600) doesn't concern me all THAT much as long as I can get a decent hi res for coding and the occasional DVD play mentioned above. However, I am warry of the shared memory of the Dell onboard graphics (you can't seen to upgrade this model!). Also, what is the Acer extended warranty like? Does anyone know or have any past experience? Is the DELL 24 hour on site all that it is cracked up to be?? Cheers, G-Mo |
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Dell Inspiron 6400 vs Acer TravelMate 8204
Dont' get memory from Dell, you will be totally ripped off. Get them
to install the least amount possible, then get memory locally. You can get it at memoryexpress for $115/GB |
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