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Originally Posted by Daniel ~ I guess your absolutely sure this is the laptop you have to have?... shopping can be fun!":O} |
I've looked around, but this kind of fits perfectly. GPU is powerful enough without being too powerful (and thus power hungry), the T7500 2.2Ghz 4MB cache Core2Duo is a monster chip in a laptop...
The screen is a 13.3" white LED backlit LCD rather than an older CCFL type, it comes with 2GB ram (ive got 4GB here waiting to go in it) a 160GB hard disk, a dual layer 8X slot loading DVD burner integrated in the side, integrated webcam, dual mics, dual headphone outs, it has HDMI, IR, bluetooth, 802.11N, Wireless broadband, huge battery life, aluminium/magnesium casing, and weighs in at under 4lbs.
There just isn't a laptop that matches that. None in that size category are that light, hardly any have the WLED screen, hardly any have a slot loader DVD, battery life is often an issue, and HDMI is non existant.
Quite frankly its a beast.
Its like the Tiburon. Hyundai, make pure crap every day of the week. Their cars are boring, poorly built, poorly designed, and ugly. Then there's the Tiburon, a car that is simply the best sports coupe in its unbelievably reasonable price bracket.
There are many in this category, the Citroen SM, the Ford GT, even the original AMD Athlon, that stand out of the crud that is the rest of a company's products. The XPS M1330 is that. Its a halo product produced (and I use this word lightly) by accident, by morons, but its still brilliant.
The fact is the machine in my sig, beats the pants off the majority of people's desktop machines, and is an ideal Linux machine due to its very standardized hardware, and huge muscle.