What to buy... What to look for in a m1340..

Was considering an m11x looked at some 10.1's and the keyboard is so cramped... cant imagine the 11.6 being much better....but i like the 13.3'' size so much i wanna stick with a 13'' i had the m1330 which i loved but because of recent hard drive problems im going to upgrade. Fix the HD in the m1330 n give it to my mom...

If i go m1340 what should i look for as far as best processors and cards...

 

Maybe you should post in the "Which notebook should I buy?" forum?

http://forum.notebookreview.com/forumdisplay.php?f=16

 

thought it fit better here considering im looking at info on the m1340 more then anything. just wanted to let people know i was also open to other options as well.

 

i believe it's starting to become a "discontinued" model. Dell will probably put out another 13" notebook though. I say give it a month or 2 and see what comes up.

 

my budget is $1000 im looking at the m1340.

 

My girlfriend has a red one with the leather. Pretty sleek. C2D 2.53GHz, 4GB ram, 256GB SSD...

 

Cool... im trying to decide
m210 vs 9500m.... the benchmarks are so close and the 9500m is so much cheaper...
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-G-210M.17638.0.html


and what processor to go with...

 

I'd say definitely go with the G210M if you want better graphics performance as it should perform quite a bit worse than the G210M (though notebookcheck lacks benchmarks for it). Though it provides a performance improvement in areas, it is usually only somewhat noticeable and in other areas performance as a whole can be hurt (though this is true with SLI in general). If you're in the U.S. you'll have to wait until they refresh it with a Core i* model unless you get one from Dell Outlet though I wouldn't suggest getting a Core 2 Duo model of any laptop anyways unless you get an amazing discount on it.

 

im fine with core duo... the only other thing i was looking at was the 14'' inspiron... but the graphics card in them sucks...
512MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD4330

 

i can get
NEW 2010 Intel®Core™ i5 - 430M
Inspiron 14 Notebook (1464)
Lithium Ion Battery (9 cell)
14.0" HD WLED
4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR3 at 1066MHz
Dell Online Backup 2GB for 1 year
500GB, 5400 RPM
512MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD4330
8X CD / DVD Burner (Dual Layer DVD+/-R Drive)
Dell Wireless 1520
Integrated 1.3M Pixel Webcam
High Definition Audio 2.0
Integrated 10/100 Network Card
Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 9.0

For under $800

 

$820 used 1340 under 100 hours... i can pick it up local... 1.5 year warranty left. Sound like a deal?
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Super Fast Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz P9600 1066Mhz with 3M L2 CPU.
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Super Fast NVIDIA® GeForce® 9500M - 256MB Video adapter (can play Modern Warfare without much problem)
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Gloss Truelife 13.3" Wide XGA+ (1280x800) Slim WLED LCD.
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Super Huge Fast 4GB DDR3 1066Mhz memory
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Build in Wireless Dell 1515 Band Wifi-N 300MB/sec WLAN Mini-PC Wireless Card
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500GB 7200 RPM SATA hard drive.
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1.3M Pixel Webcam
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Backlit Keyboard
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Slot Load DVD +/- RW Combo ( Burn CD,DVD & Play DVD)
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Comes with Original Battery holds full charges.
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Windows VISTA Installed
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"Edge-to-edge" WLED screen.
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LEATHER TRIMM
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Windows Vista Home Premium (64 bit)
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remaining warranty to AUGUST 2011
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Width: 12.56" (319mm)

Height: 0.88" (22.55mm) front / 1.35" (34.34mm) back

Depth: 9.3" (236.12mm)

Weight: Starting weight of 4.85 lbs. (2.2 kg)10(13.3" display, 6 cell battery).

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(1) USB 2.0 compliant ports

(1) USB 2.0 compliant / e-SATA port with Powershare

15-pin VGA video connector

IEEE compliant 1394a port

Integrated network connector 10/100/1000 LAN (RJ45)

54mm Express Card slot

Display Port

HDMI Port

AC adapter connector

Audio jacks (2 line-out, 1 Mic-in)

8-in-1 Media Card Reader

 

Looks like M1340 has expresscard 2.0 as shown here, so could attach a desktop HD5770 to greatly improve graphics performance to an external LCD. A good deal? Yes.

 

dont know what this means...

Im guessing you can externally attach a HD5770 1gb card to enhance graphics performance... would this work with my 32'' toshiba LCD nicely??

Because its either this deal or the m11x... only thing i dont like is the leather accent *vomit*

Since i like my m1330 so much i think it would be kinda stupid to make the switch... and if i dont like the m11x im screwed..