New Laptop!

Richard Carver · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 12:18 am Post subject: New Laptop!

I've been lugging the Dell I1000 (7+ Pounds) around more and more lately because EVDO is just so damn handy to have available. The 1000 has a 15" screen and is cumbersome to use on an airplane. On the trip to DC, a guy a couple of rows up had a 700m and was watching a movie (2.5 hours) and I had used all my battery waiting to board in the terminal. I had been thinking about a 700 but watching that guy have all that fun convinced me. Dell has a $500 off coupon that expires on the 22nd for lappys over 1399, here's the coupon in case anyone is thinking about getting a Dell (dude) W$N7BQKNQBFM42 Just copy and paste it in the coupon space at checkout.

Anyway, I got the Inspiron 700M that weighs 4.1 pounds with a 1.6 725M processor, 512 megs of DDr ram, 24X cd burner/DVD, 8 cell extended battery (5 hours!) built in Wi Fi B/G, yada yada..

Here's the specs and the deal, use that coupon if you're in the market!

Inspiron 700m
Intel® Pentium® M Processor 725 (1.60GHz/400MHz FSB) 12.1-in WXGA, Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Qty: 1
Unit Price: $1,437.00
Inspiron 700m Intel® Pentium® M Processor 725 (1.60GHz/400MHz FSB) 12.1-in WXGAMM16WN [221-6397]
Memory 512MB DDR SDRAM 2 Dimms 512MB2D [311-3688]
Hard Drive 40 GB Hard Drive 40GB [341-0933]
Operating System Microsoft® Windows® XP Home WHXP [412-0689]
[420-4766]
[463-2282]
[420-4928]
[420-5101]
[420-4830]
Network Adapters Integrated Network Card INTNIC [430-0530]
Modem Internal 56K Modem 56MPC [313-1917]
Document Management Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 6.0 ADOBER
CD ROM/DVD ROM 24X CD Burner/DVD Combo Drive 24COMBO
[313-2538]
[420-5111]
Wireless Dell® Wireless 1350 Internal Wireless (802.11b/g, 54Mbps)

Bundled Software Productivity Pack including WordPerfect®
ICORELM
[412-0714]
Security Software No Security Subscription
NS
[412-0755]
Digital Music Dell Jukebox - easy-to-use music player and CD burning software
MMBASE
[412-0741]
Primary Battery 65 WHr 8-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery
8BAT
[310-5292]
Limited Warranty, Services and Support 1Yr Ltd Warranty, 1Yr Mail-In Service, and 1Yr Technical Support
ST111RR
[950-9057]
[950-3337]
[950-3830]
[412-0361]
[960-2780]
Dial-Up Internet Access 6 Months America Online Internet Access Included
AOLDHS
[412-0585]
[412-0625]
[420-3224]
Digital Imaging or Digital Photography Paint Shop™ Pro® Studio trial, Photo Album™ Starter Edition
DPS
[412-0744]
Financial Software QuickBooks® Simple Start Special Edition (limted to 50 contacts)
QBSSP
[420-5139]
Dell Media Experience Dell™ Media Experience
DMX
[412-0751]

Dell Home Customers:Save $500 on select Inspiron™ notebook purchases $1399 or more (before tax and shipping)! (affiliate only online offer)
Expires on 2005-03-22 05:59:59 - $500.00

ADDITIONAL DISCOUNTS AND COUPONS

Dell Home Customers: FREE 2nd day shipping with purchase of ANY new Dell Home Systems Notebook over $899! Limited time offer.
Expires on 2005-03-24 06:59:59 - $69.00
Sub-Total $909.00
Shipping Discount -$69.00
Shipping $0.00
Tax $75.00
Total $984.00

Michael · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 8:47 pm Post subject:

I saw this message on another thread on a different board. May not affect you, but if you have one of these or planning on getting one, watch out.

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Warning to Dell Latitude 600 Series customers:

DO NOT try the Sierra Wireless card in your Dell. The bus voltage of the PCMCIA slot is slightly different, and it will hose you like a fireman on a burning house. We called Verizon, and they said "oh, that's a known issue". Known issue.......ummm.....I never saw it ANYWHERE on the web site.

So, we've got some of the Novatel cards on order, we'll see if that doesn't work a little better. We'll let you know if the Dell likes them any better.
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Richard Carver · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 8:58 pm Post subject:

It hasn't bothered my current Dell and I've never read anything like that at the Dell forums but I did read about a PC5220 being fried by a PCI to PCMIA card on a desktop. Let us know how that works when you get yours.