Rate this deal on Dell Inspiron 8500...

[Abhi]

Inspiron 8500
Mobile Pentium®4 Processor,2.4 GHz,15.4 WSXGA+
Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition
512MB, DDR, 266MHz, 2 DIMMS
60GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive
24X CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive
64MB DDR NVIDIA® GeForce 4 4200 Go AGP 4X Graphics
Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN (802.11b/g, 54Mbps) miniPCI Card
6 Months AOL,Featuring the Netbusiness Service for Small Business
Integrated 10/100 Network Card and Modem
No Floppy Drive
72 WHr Primary Battery
2 Year Limited Warranty plus 2 Year On-site Service

FREE! Dell True Mobile 2300 Router 1 yr warranty

All this with free shipping for $1975 - $200 = 1775 - 10% = $1597.5

Is this a good deal?? I need to buy before 10th Oct... so tell me asap.

 

[Abhi]

Someone reply!!

 

[spanner]

I would say its a good deal.

 

[Corporate Thug]

good deal but it depends what your needs are i.e. for someone who needs a lappy for note/ie/mp3 it is overkill

 

[SilentZero]

Originally posted by: shady06
good deal but it depends what your needs are i.e. for someone who needs a lappy for note/ie/mp3 it is overkill

I agree. It all depends on your needs. As shady06 said, its a overkill if your only looking to run your run-of-the-mill apps. But not a bad price considering. At least it will give you some versatility.

 

[sniperruff]

decent at best. for $1500 you can get a slightly less-loaded centrino. and you know P-M's kick ass!

 

[Abhi]

I need something which will last for 2 yrs without upgrades...
and has to have a support backup in India.... i.e. has to be one of the bigger brands...
Its gonna run office apps all the time... Occasional gaming.... an hour or two a week...

but i dont want it to gimme "Video memory too low for this game" messages in 2005... when i am running Need for Speed HP 4 or something....

I would have bought the Inspiron 5150, but its simply too thick....

Wi Fi is not even available where i live.... the wireless card and router is just so i can have wireless access to net, and to be future compatible.

 

[Eug]

VERY heavy laptop - something like 8 lbs with the optical drive and battery.

The GeForce 4 4200 Go eats batteries, as does the Mobile Pentium 4 2.4.

Personally I'd get something smaller and lighter, with Centrino.

 

[Ionizer86]

An Athlon XP mobile system will be a lot cheaper; not sure about HP support though. The XP-M does almost as well on performance and juice consumption when compared to the P-M except at a much lower cost. Since you'll only be gaming rarely, the HP systems' Radeon 7000 should work semidecently enough with games like Need for Speed (I think these even run on like Pentium and Pentium II systems).

 

[Abhi]

Originally posted by: Ionizer86
An Athlon XP mobile system will be a lot cheaper; not sure about HP support though. The XP-M does almost as well on performance and juice consumption when compared to the P-M except at a much lower cost. Since you'll only be gaming rarely, the HP systems' Radeon 7000 should work semidecently enough with games like Need for Speed (I think these even run on like Pentium and Pentium II systems).

 

[Abhi]

Originally posted by: Ionizer86
An Athlon XP mobile system will be a lot cheaper; not sure about HP support though. The XP-M does almost as well on performance and juice consumption when compared to the P-M except at a much lower cost. Since you'll only be gaming rarely, the HP systems' Radeon 7000 should work semidecently enough with games like Need for Speed (I think these even run on like Pentium and Pentium II systems).

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 is quite a resource hog, unless u want to play in slide-show mode.