This new offering from Dell packs quite a punch. Considered to be a desktop replacement because of its size, it makes good use of the space it has to put in as many features as possible. It has a good 17″ LCD and a great video card to compliment it (256MB Nvidia GeForce Go 8600M GT).
I had been given a choice regarding the color that my laptop would be in. I can’t remember all the color options available, but what I could remember was red, blue, green, and yellow. I’d say that it is quite nice to have
a say on what my portable would look like. It tends to get tiring for me to look at the typical silver, black, or white chassis.
As with most of the components, they can be customized based on what suits your needs. For my setup, I selected an 80GB Hard drive, 1GB 667Mhz DDR2 RAM, a DVD burner, and Windows Vista Home Premium as my operating system.
At first glance, it felt a bit heavy to carry around, but a good laptop backpack solved that problem for me. I’m not too sure though about people who travel a lot, since ...