Just Ordered a New Laptop: Vostro 1500

well I bit the bullet and bought myself a new laptop for college next year.
I wanted to replaced my 3800 x2 and x800xl tower with a rugged portable machine. settled on the vostro as it seems like the best bang for the buck.

Dell Vostro 1500

1.4ghz c2d 800mhz
2gb ddr2
160gb hd
256mb 8600gt ddr2
1280 x 800 screen with truelife
internal bluetooth and wireless g
extended 9 cell battery
dvd burner

all for 838 shipped

Its going to be used mostly for CSS, BF2, C&C 3, lol and school work of course.
Ill let everyone know how it runs. in a year or two i might get a peryn 2.0ghz proc for it.

anyone with the inspiron or vostro can you please comment on the quality of that 15.4 1280 x 800 true life screen ive heard bad storys. does it have enough usable screen estate?

My gf has the truelife 1280x800 on her inspiron 1520 "on it right now", no problems at all with it, no bleedthrough or anything nice respone time no ghosting at all.

plenty of space

Yes its should support the new 45nm mobile chips.

nice, thats good to here, i didnt want to get it and have to send it back. think it will be a good platform for the next couple of years especially since those peryn cores are plug and play. thanks phys i was worried about the display.

I got the same setup except my c2d is 2.2ghz. I'm loving it, you'll enjoy yours too.

Vengance_01 said:

Yes its should support the new 45nm mobile chips.

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How do you know this?

Killer deal for 850.

What kind of battery life is expected with discrete graphics and a 9-cell?

apparently i should be expecting 3.5 - 4 according to reviews, but my processor is a lower clockspeed and i plan on undervolting and underclocking the 8600 so we shall see. only one more week till it arrives.

Well it Arrived 8 days ahead of schedule (thankyou dell) and im typing on it right now. in the past couple hours i have had it i have tried all my games and have been impressed it handles cs source (1280x800 max 70+ fps) better that my desktop. its also nice that my 40gb of mp3s fit without being stretched for space. the screen is crisp and clear, and mine does not have a noisy headphone port, i am very impressed, cant wait to see how it will do with some over clocking. according to the windows power meter i have 5 hours of battery left.

Very nice! I get about 4 hours of battery on my 1700, even with my 8600M GT overclocked and the fans on high

ps2cho said:

How do you know this?

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Because it uses the same 965pm chipset. There are several manufactures shipping 45nm based notebooks. Intel has not yet released there new chipset yet. I think its due in Spring.