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03-28-2003, 06:33 PM
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Opinions please...good deal or not?
IBM ThinkPad Factory Recertified
• Intel® Pentium® III 800MHz Processor
• 128MB SDRAM Memory
• 20GB Hard Drive
• 14.1-inch TFT XGA Display
• Removable DVD-ROM Drive
• Removable 1.44MB Floppy Drive
• S3 Savage Video
• Crystal SoundFusion WDM Audio
• Integrated 10/100Mbps NIC
• Integrated 56k Modem
• Microsoft® Windows® 98
• Factory Recertified
$699
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03-28-2003, 06:50 PM
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May be on the surface.... where are you getting the deal from?
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03-28-2003, 06:56 PM
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Office Depot was offering a Sotec laptop for $800 (after $50 MIR). 1.2 GHz Celeron, 20 Gb HD, CDRW/DVD drive, decent video.
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03-28-2003, 07:00 PM
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My honest opinion is that you can get better hardware for about the same price if you pay attention to techbargains.com. Dell always has coupons & discounts, which oftentimes will bring their laptop prices to around $700.
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03-28-2003, 07:05 PM
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The IBM is from Tiger Direct.
Here's a refurbed Dell for $793. It's a Celeron. Something I've never even touched, let alone used extensively. What would be the performance hit with the Celery with the added RAM as compared the PIII?
Inspiron 2650 (System Identifier F5B17CA9)
Inspiron 2650 Notebook: Intel Celeron® processor,1.6 GHz-M 14.1 XGA
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System Price $943.00
Promotion Discount ($150.00)
Discounted Price $793.00
Memory: 256 MB 200MHz SDRAM (2 DIMMs)
Floppy Drive: Floppy Drive
Hard Disk Drive: 20 GB EIDE Hard Drive (4200 RPM)
Video: 16MB DDR 4X AGP NVIDIA GeForce2 Go?Vid
NoteBook Screen: 14 inch XGA Notebook Screen
Modem: Internal 56k v.92 capable Modem
Network Interface Card: Integrated 10/100 Fast Ethernet Network Card
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows XP Home
CD Read-Write Drive: 24X/10X/40X CD-RW
Software: Software
Software
Britannica Software
DPS Image Expert Standard Software
Dell Support 2.0
Dell Support 2.0
Software
Dell SecurityCenter by McAfee, 90-day introductory offer
Music Match 7.1 Software
Dell Picture Studio, Paint Shop Pro Edition
Quicken 2002 Software
AOL 7.0/MSN Internet Access
WordPerfect Productivity Suite 10.0
Misc: Shipping Material
Shipping Material
Keyboard on Notebook
Resource CD with Tools
Nylon Carrying Case
8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
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03-28-2003, 07:16 PM
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not bad
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03-28-2003, 07:17 PM
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You're right. Techbargains had a 2.0GHz Celeron Dell Inspiron for $699 shipped. I bumped the RAM to 256MB and it's still only $750. Nice.
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03-28-2003, 07:20 PM
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So this leaves me with my other question. Is there going to be a noticeable performance hit with a 2.0GHz Celeron as opposed to an 800MHz PIII? This laptop will be mostly for surfing, email, and text editting.
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03-28-2003, 07:26 PM
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03-28-2003, 07:29 PM
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In fact, after looking at the benchmarks myself... (even though they don't rate any Celerons faster than the 1.7ghz) I'd say the Celeron will be significantly faster than the PIII.
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