New Notebook maybe

Hey, I was thinking about selling my iMac G5 and just getting a 17" inch multimedia laptop as a full time desktop replacement... I'd attempt to get XP Pro loaded onto it as well instead of Vista... below are the specs, what do you think about price? I'm paying $1155.04 shipped. I would probably put 4GB of RAM into it (but from Dell it's $100 freakin' dollars more), and according to the configurator their is room for 2 hard drives... I'd probably sell the 160GB drive in it and put in 2 x 7200RPM drives and stripe it. And no gigabit ethernet option is the only other issue. Just wanted ur opinion before (IF) I pull the trigger. I don't know how much I can get for my G5 (I'm hoping $1,000)


Inspiron 1720
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T9300 (2.5GHz/800Mhz FSB/6MB cache)
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition SP1
System Color Midnight Blue
MEMORY 2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 667MHz
LCD Panel High Resolution, glossy widescreen 17.0 inch display (1920 x 1200)
Video Card 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT
Hard Drive Size: 160GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM) 160GB
Network Card Integrated 10/100 Network Card and Modem
Adobe Software Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 8.1
Optical Drive CD / DVD writer (DVD+/-RW DVD-ROM)
Sound Card High Definition Audio 2.0
Wireless Networking Cards Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N Mini-Card
Camera Integrated 2.0 Megapixel Webcam
Misc Productivity Software No Productivity software pre-installed
Anti-Virus/ Security suite (pre-install) No Security
Battery Options 56Whr Lithium Ion Battery (6 cell)
Warranty & Service 1Yr Ltd Warranty and Mail-In Service
Dial-Up Internet Access No ISP requested
Bluetooth and Wireless USB Built-in Bluetooth capability (2.0 EDR)
Bluetooth and Wireless USB ExpressCard Media Remote for Bluetooth-enabled Notebook
Dell Digital Entertainment No Entertainment software pre-installed
DOMS Camera Mod Premium Deep Navy Blue with Soft Touch LCD back color w/ 2.0M pixel
Camera
Processor Branding Intel® Core™2 Duo Label
Labels Windows Vista™ Premium
DataSafe Online Backup Included 3 GB DataSafe Online Backup for 1Yr

What do you all think?

 

Converting from Mac to Windows? Sweeet~!

 

NONONO, I won't be changing... I still have tons of other mac's, my G5 is my best one however.

 

looks good. good multi media.

 

I just converted from an imac to a dell studio . Hopefully I made the right choice! My only concern is whether to run pc-decrapifier and other stuff to manually get rid of bloatware, or just a complete fresh reformat. How complicated is the latter? (I read the thread, seems pretty simple).


JB, what makes you shy away from Vista in favor of XP? Curious because I'm also getting back into the windows world.

 

I think its a sweet build. Two Samsung 320s and 4 Gb of ram from newegg for another 270 bucks. Those HDs rip.

 

wipe/reload! problem fixed!!! forget trying to remove it all... I mean, I HAVE done it millions of times before, however it just takes time... I have all the experiance so I don't need to worry about removing something I would need because I know what I need and don't obviously. But the simple answer is to wipe/reload. as for the Vista question: Vista is just XP on steroids and sucks resources (Like RAM) (for example on a FRESH install on vista business it takes up 700+MB of RAM!!!!, now factor in bluetooth, WIFI, & Sprint NDIS services and you are over 1GB just at idle, now add some office 2007 (which i'm ALSO NOT A FAN OF!!!) crap (few docs and such open) and you are up to 1.2 - 1.5GB of RAM usage!!! FORGET IT!!!!!

XP Works fine for what I want....

One more thing on battery life on Vista!! I have a toughbook and I can get about 6 hours on full brightness (about 10 hours at low brightness) and with vista its 4 & 7 hours respectivly!!! I've done extensive testing (and have XP Pro & Vista Business loaded on my toughbook, both LEGIT, LEGAL OEM COA'S)

Their ya have it!