I'm on my 3rd Dell Laptop
Current beast is a Inspirion 1720 - Its my 17 inch work station that I take with me everywhere. Previously I has a Inspirion 1550 - This developed a fault with the MB and as I had had it for over 3 years I retired it. However I was able to find a 2nd hard board on Ebay and it is now my backup development box I have a very old Lattitude (cannot remember number) that is over 7 years old. That fellow is on my workbench at home and is used for programming microcontrollers and processing experiments. I have a multimeter with and RS232 so I sometime will monitor a power supply for drift etc over a period of time. I also do a lot with PicAXE controllers and it is perfect for that task. If you buy from Dell - DO get the extended warranty. It may seem expensive at first but having next day Fix can be worth it . Take care Dave ******************************************************************** David J. Boccabella Proprietor Anubis Systems Phone: 0433 808 525 Fax: 3200 0085 Email: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] This e-mail and it's contents is confidential to Anubis Systems. This e-mail, any attachments, or any part of can not be reproduced without the express written permission of Anubis Systems ******************************************************************** From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Chapman-Smith Sent: Wednesday, 14 April 2010 12:19 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: [OT] Vostro laptops Hi folks, I too am interested to get feedback on this. I have a Dell XPS M1710 that is now three years old - and while it still out performs many current machines - it's getting a little long in the tooth as a development machine. I've been very happy with the support from Dell so I'm keen to stick with a Dell machine. Cheers. James. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Wednesday, 14 April 2010 10:59 To: ozDotNet Subject: [OT] Vostro laptops Has anyone seen/used a Dell Vostro laptop? They seem to be targeted at business rather than consumers, and I was wondering how they compare to the studio laptops. I've got an M17x Alienware (they replaced my M1730 XPS when the graphics card died and they had no parts for it) which I'm happy with apart from not having dual core cpu. Just thinking ahead... Vostro 3700 seems to have lots going for it. 17.3 inch screen, lots of Ram, and i7 quad core cpu. cheers, Stephen
