...well, my final 8 weeks of vacation is coming to an end when I go in to process out from my soon-to-be former employer on Tuesday. Seems they want my company credit card, phone card, badge, drive-in pass, and worst of all, they want my company laptop back!! Whatever came of the notion of lovely parting gifts??
I want a laptop with:
- a 17" screen (my 14.1" was a bit tough without my 1.25 reading glasses)
- ideally the screen would be bright enough for use outdoors in the shade
- wireless
- DVD burning
- good battery life
- and naturally, cheaper is better.
- it shouldn't be REAL noisy like the $499 Dell I bought my son.
I'm a Costco member if it matters. I saw the following 17" Inspiron on the Dell Outlet site for ~$779 - whaddya think of this if something similar turns up?
tia,
Cb
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Inspiron 9400/E1705 Notebook: Intel Core Duo Processor T2250 (1.73GHz/533MHz/2 X 1MB L2 Cache)
Genuine Windows XP Home
System Price : $779.00
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Memory
1 GB DDR2 SDRAM 533MHz (2 DIMMs)
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Hard Disk Drive
60 GB EIDE Hard Drive (5400 RPM)
Media Bay
8x DVD +/- RW w/dbl layer write capability
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Network Interface Card
1390 Wireless Card