Interminable Wait

A couple of weeks ago I finally cracked and ordered a new laptop. The deal I saw from Dell was just too good to miss. Unfortunately a lot of other people felt the same and at the time of order I was advised of a 4 week wait due to unprecedented demand. Currently my order status is showing delivery on or before 1/10/07. It's driving me mad this waiting.

So what did I order? A Dell Inspiron 1720 costing £801.60 delivered (with my Corporate discount).

• Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T7100 (1.80 GHz, 2 MB L2 cache, 800 MHz FSB)


• Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium - English


• Jet Black Colour with Matte Finish & 2.0mp camera


• 17.0" UltraSharp™ Wide Screen WUXGA (1920x1200) TFT Display with TrueLife™


• 2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x1024]


• 160GB (5400RPM) SATA Hard Drive


• nVidia® GeForce™ Go 8600M GT with 256MB DDR2 dedicated graphic memory


• Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive including Software

Wooooofffff! The clinchers for me were the 2Gb of RAM, the 17" screen running at 1920x1200 and the 256Mb dedicated Nvidia 8600M GT graphics card. Of course the thing will weigh a tonne but It's perfect for what I intend to do with it. All that power perched on my groin, woof.

The reviews I've seen for it have been very favourable apart from the lack of DVI or HDMI sockets which is of no concern to me. I just can't wait to get my hands on it. I fully intend to install Windows XP and Ubuntu 7.04 along side Vista (maybe using Virtual PC 2007). Much more to follow when it's finally here.

Update 15/09/07: Oh my giddy Aunt, I've just checked the status and it's switched from "pre-production" to "production". Come on you little Irish goblins get on with it!

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