Hey guys. I've got a couple surgeries coming up and am going to be stuck at home/hospital for bit without being able to comfortably sit in a chair (not that I can now anyway since the accident). In said accident, my notebook/tools/and everything that was in my truck was stolen by either the tow truck driver or someone at the scene of the accident.
Either way, I haven't had a laptop for a few months now and have had to use my girlfriend's after not really being able to sit in my desk chair for any appreciable period. So I've been shopping around and decided to go with another Dell since I had really good results with the first one I bought in 2005.
This one is going to run me $614 with a $50 discount code (happy to pass it along to anyone who could make use of it). I upgraded the Celeron processor to a Pentium, the RAM from 2G to 4GB, and the battery from a 3 cell to a 6 cell. The upgrade for the processor was $75, the RAM upgrade $120, and the battery upgrade was only $35. I figure I will have this one for a few years also, hopefully longer
. Do you guys agree with the upgrades and think they are worth the prices? The biggest one I'm on the fence with is the processor. I don't know if processor stepping of the Pentium makes that much of a difference along with the extra MB of cache. Any thoughts? The specs are as follows:
Inspiron 11z Operating System: Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English
Processor: Intel® Pentium™ SU4100 (1.3GHz/800MHz FSB/2MB cache)
Memory: 4GB,DDR2,800MHZ,1 DIMM 4GB [317-1800]
LCD Panel: 11.6" High Definition WLED Display (1366x768) HDFLCD [320-8215]
Video Card: Intel® GS45 Integrated Graphics, WLAN WLANGRP [320-1189]
Hard Drive: 250GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM) 250GBCT [341-9988]
System Color: Obsidian Black BLACK [313-8296]
Wireless Networking Cards: Dell 1397 WLAN 802.11a/b/g – Half mini-Card DW1397U [430-2929]
Camera: Integrated 1.3M Pixel Webcam DCAM [320-8220]
Battery Options: 56WHr Lithium-Ion Battery (6-cell) 6BAT [312-0901]
Hardware Support Services: 1 Year Basic Mail-In Service Plan ST111RR [903-4827][904-3180][950-3337][950-9057][960-2780]
Service: 1 Dell Online Backup 2GB for 1 year