I want to get a new laptop

First off it has to be from Dell.
Why?
Because it will be purchased by my employer.
Dell has the EPP which is the employee purchase program.

Right now I have a Inspiron 4000 with a 700MHz Celeron. I bought it a year ago and I was never pleased with it completely.
Should I go for the Inspiron 8100 series with a mobile PIII or should I wait a while for the mobile P4 systems?

Right now I have a plain jane laptop that I pull out to use when my wife is on desktop. It has a 24X cd rom in it. I would like to get a laptop with a combo burner DVD drive in it. I would bring the laptop to work so that when I get bored I can pull it out and watch movies.
That's what I said I want to buy a new laptop so I can watch movies at work.

So my main question is...do I buy a PIII or do I wait a while and get a P4???

<font color=red><i>Doctor Hooter</i></font color=red> <A HREF="http://www.page3.com/" target="_new"><b>(·Y·)</b></A>

compaq are fine but you have to get the buissness ones to get any qualtiy in them

<font color=red>Gasoline + Fire</font color=red><font color=green> Can be a lot of fun</font color=green>

have you ever played around withe buissnes one thoes are good one

my dad just go one for work


it is on a intel board witha 1 ghz p3 wiht an ati mobile video card and intel ethernet and modem on

i was surpirssed how good it was

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<font color=red>Gasoline + Fire</font color=red><font color=green> Can be a lot of fun</font color=green>

OEMS SUCK!?!?!

<font color=purple><b>Techie2001</font color=purple></b> says... If it ain't broke, Don't fix it.

Thats the problem - Building your own deszktop is cheaper than OEM but it seems to be the other way round for laptops. Shame really I could make a kick ass laptop.

<font color=purple><b>Techie2001</font color=purple></b> says... If it ain't broke, Don't fix it.

Business ones, the Armada models cost twice as much! I guess the ACi (a UK based company) makes pretty goos ones, especially at real budget prices! But nothing can beat the Compaq global warranty. But if something is broken they rip you off to fix it!

girish

<font color=red>Nothing is fool-proof. Fools are Ingenious!</font color=red>

get that new sweet one from IBM that Dr. Tom had in that article.

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i would imagine a p3 1.2GHz would be around the same as a 1.5-1.6GHz p4

<font color=red><pre>i so good i jealous of me</pre><p></font color=red>

for sure....better than my piece of crap

<font color=red><pre>i so good i jealous of me</pre><p></font color=red>

there quality is usally very low and are always broken

there tech support is also verybad

<font color=red>Gasoline + Fire</font color=red><font color=green> Can be a lot of fun</font color=green>

You could be using it while you're waiting for the P4's to come out.

Depends on exactly what kind of *work* you're going to be doing, too. Working on nailing that last little ba$tard in Max Payne requires slightly different hardware specs, as compared to working on rendering that 3d graph for the presentation tomorrow.

"little pricey"

That's Dell. And you should say 'castrated bios', and 'Mickey Mouse pre-loaded software' as well.

Oh, yeah. And 'Where the [-peep-] is the restore disk!??!?'.