This kinda follows from the previous "Clevo - clever" thread, but its really about a new issue so I said I'd start a new post.
First lets get the ranting off my chest. I am about to buy I laptop, so I decided to look at the Dell website because I find the customisable service pretty good, but I was astonished by the prices of the Pentium-M processors on that site, (are they really that expensive?). Instead I thought I might just get a laptop with a P4, and save a little money but Dells best graphics cards are pants, and they don't even put the best ones in the models that have the P4.
I decided that I might have to bite the bullet and fork over my hard earned cash on the M60, but then I noticed how much extra I would have to pay for 1GB of RAM. My eventual spec came out at €4,800 ( = $4,800) which is ridiculuos.
So now to the questions,
1) Does anyone know if Dell will be installing an ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 graphics card in their laptops soon. (I think RaPTuRe said that the laptops are equipped to handle it.)
2) Would it be relatively simple to buy the laptop with very little RAM, then buy and install extra RAM myself? (I could easily do this on a desktop model, but I don't know much about the layout of laptop hardware.)
Thanks for bearing with the outburst at the beginning, I'll be very grateful for any suggestions/help.
Carln
P.S. okietex, you must have very deep pockets to splash out on the M60, surely the SAGER 5680 that you were also looking at was vastly cheaper!!!! (sure maybe your a millionaire
if you are send me some $$)
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by carln on 10/14/03 04:30 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
First lets get the ranting off my chest. I am about to buy I laptop, so I decided to look at the Dell website because I find the customisable service pretty good, but I was astonished by the prices of the Pentium-M processors on that site, (are they really that expensive?). Instead I thought I might just get a laptop with a P4, and save a little money but Dells best graphics cards are pants, and they don't even put the best ones in the models that have the P4.
I decided that I might have to bite the bullet and fork over my hard earned cash on the M60, but then I noticed how much extra I would have to pay for 1GB of RAM. My eventual spec came out at €4,800 ( = $4,800) which is ridiculuos.
So now to the questions,
1) Does anyone know if Dell will be installing an ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 graphics card in their laptops soon. (I think RaPTuRe said that the laptops are equipped to handle it.)
2) Would it be relatively simple to buy the laptop with very little RAM, then buy and install extra RAM myself? (I could easily do this on a desktop model, but I don't know much about the layout of laptop hardware.)
Thanks for bearing with the outburst at the beginning, I'll be very grateful for any suggestions/help.
Carln
P.S. okietex, you must have very deep pockets to splash out on the M60, surely the SAGER 5680 that you were also looking at was vastly cheaper!!!! (sure maybe your a millionaire
if you are send me some $$)<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by carln on 10/14/03 04:30 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
-- now, M60 -- still in production .. called this morning to talk to someone who might "why" ... no luck. Same thing she told me that is on my order status screen. Around 10/21-10/23 delivery date. but, no kitting yet .... if/when I get it, I'll try to post something on it.
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