It's good to have gray hair and a new M1530

I landed one of the $599 deals at BestBuy on the 'closeout' 1530 machines. I've had the Dell for a few days and absolutely love it. After spending countless hours with my 7 year old Inspiron 8100 - this is a rocket ship.

The reason I like the gray hair is because I no longer care about the fastest, meanest, overclocked beast like I once did. I haven't ran any speed checks on it because - frankly - I don't care. I don't game and don't care if Photoshop takes 10 seconds or 8 seconds to load. Those 2 seconds aren't worth a $1000 bump to me. I just want to cruise the 'net and pump some netflix 'watch them nows' out of the HDMI to my new HD Sony XBR4.

The new machine is quiet, runs cool, has a great monitor and is fast enough.

I actually bought 2 of the machines thinking of putting one on ebay, however my son-in-law, a design engineer, saw mine last night an wrote a $599 check so fast that I couldn't even collect the $19 shipping that I paid. (no tax in Montana.)

If I get seven years out of this XPS, I may switch from gray hair to limited hair for my XPS M6100 - or whatever it will be in 2015. Since I paid nearly $1,900 for my 8100 in 2001, and $599 for my M1530 in 1008, I figure the M6100 in 2015 will be about $75. I may upgrade to 200 Meg of ram for an additional $4.99 then - who knows.

Life is Good

Regards, Mike

 

Just curious, what are the specs on that laptop?

 

I'd prefer to have a new Dell and no gray hairs. But to each his/her own

 

From the BB website -

Intel® Core™2 Duo mobile processor T5450 with 667MHz frontside bus, 2MB L2 cache and 1.66GHz processor speed.

2GB DDR2 memory for multitasking power, expandable to 4GB.

Multiformat DVD±RW/CD-RW drive with double-layer support records up to 8.5GB of data or 4 hours of video using compatible media.

Glossy 15.4" WXGA high-definition widescreen display with TrueLife technology and 1280 x 800 resolution.

160GB Serial ATA hard drive (5400 rpm).

Biometric fingerprint reader for secure access to your data.

NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS graphics with up to 128MB discrete video memory; high-definition 2.0 audio; S-video output.

Built-in Media Center to easily manage your digital photos, videos and music; travel remote included.

Built-in 2.0-megapixel Web cam to liven up Internet chat, instant messaging and blogs with color photos and video.\

8-in-1 media card reader supports Secure Digital, Secure Digital IO, Secure Digital High Capacity, Secure Digital HD, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, MultiMediaCard and xD-Picture Card.

IEEE 1394 (FireWire) interface and 4 high-speed USB 2.0 ports for fast digital video, audio and data transfer.

Built-in Dell 1505 Wireless-N mini-card (802.11b/g/n); Dell's Hyperband multiantenna features 3 antennas to find and connect to networks with ease, delivering enhanced wireless reception; standard Wi-Fi Catcher to quickly locate wireless hotspots.

Integrated Bluetooth technology; 10/100 Ethernet network card; HDMI

Mike

 

Congrat's on your purchase!!!!

Gray hairs,... nopers for me!!!! I enjoy being a brunette

Enjoy your 1530, it's an awesome notebook