On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 11:15:47AM -0700, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > Seems like it's a real bottom-of-the line machine with a limited upgrade > path. According to what I've read, it only supports one hard drive. 512mb > of ram is marginal. Comes with Windows Media Edition - don't know anything > much about that but it would seem that you'd be better off with a straight > version of WinXP. Dell is usually loaded with crap programs and bloatware > - not a good thing. You probably won't get a Windows disk with the > machine, which, IMO, is a big failing. What size hard drive are you > getting? Do you plan to run Photoshop? > > Good luck with it, I sincerely hope it will serve you well. I just don't > see it as a machine with long-term potential or much in the way of upgrade > possibilities.
Apart from the RAM (I recently upgraded my notebook from 512MB to the 1GB maximum for this model) I don't see anything to prevent it being useful for at least five (and more likely ten) years. We're well past the days when last year's machine was only useful as a doorstop - in fact both my notebook and our main home machine are over three years old, and are still perfectly usable (even with 'only' a 400MHz DDR memory subsystem). Only one internal hardrive isn't really much of an issue, either - for all but the most demanding tasks external USB2 or firewire drives are fine. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
