New Laptop!
- Saturday, October 25th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
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I ordered a new laptop last week and I have been playing around with it for a few days, and realized I forgot to brag about it :P
It’s a Dell XPS m1330 in tuxedo black (matte finish). It features an Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 2.4GHz processor, 4GB DDR2 SDRAM, 320GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM), slot load CD/DVD Burner, 128MB NVIDIA® GeForceâ„¢ 8400M, wireless broadband card (Verizon), 2.0 megapixel webcam + microphone embedded in the monitor, HDMI output, and some other goodies I can’t really remember.
I thought it might be tough to adjust from the 15.4″ screen on my old laptop to the 13.3″ on the new one. The keyboard is also a little more condensed. But all in all, I’m loving it. Mostly because my old laptop lost some RAM somewhere along the way and went from 512MB to 448MB. That, along with the dated Pentium 4 processor really didn’t make for a good time when multitasking. In fact, I’ve never been able to run iTunes and Firefox at the same time on my old laptop. Now I can run iTunes, and play games on Pogo (Java) in Firefox, chat (Pidgin) and copying files (from the old computer) via USB. Might sound like commonplace for some of you, but it’s a whole new world for me.
Not to mention battery life.. I can get a little over three hours out of the battery if I turn the screen brightness down to about half. My old laptop would die after 10-15 minutes. But that was because never turned it off and it was always plugged in. But that’s enough bragging for now. I just wanted to share :)
[...] New Laptop! It features an Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 2.4GHz processor, 4GB DDR2 SDRAM, 320GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM), slot load CD/DVD Burner, 128MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8400M, wireless broadband card (Verizon), 2.0 megapixel webcam + microphone … [...]
I am jealous, sir.
As far as the battery life goes, three hours is pretty choice for a mid-level performance machine. I’ve heard of some desktop replacement notebooks that run out of battery life after something like an hour.
I guess notebooks that beefy also get hot as hell.