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    Well I just pulled the trigger on the XPS M170

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by techaholic, Apr 8, 2006.

  1. techaholic

    techaholic Notebook Geek

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    Shipped $2176 (includes $103.65 tax) :cool:

    CPU 2.13Mhz
    Ram 2Gig
    Harddrive 120Gig
    Network Wireless with blue tooth.
    3 year home service

    Got discounts of $350 + ebay $35 coupon.

    If anyone thinks I should cancel, let me know, but it seems a good buy to me, I was considering the Acer Travelmate 8200, but this blows it away for games. :eek:
     
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    Nice Rig there! I'd keep it! The Acer travelmate looks very descent, but if your are going to game, the X1600 in there is not that great. I love to game, and I've literally gone through 5-6 different lappy last year. BY FAR, my
    M170 is the best laptop I've had!
     
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    techaholic Notebook Geek

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    Cheers mate, :cool:

    I figured it would rock :dell: after many hours of reading. Plus the extra bucks for the upcooming M1710 would probably not be worth the extra cash for the performance gian. ;)
     
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    I agree with you. For the price, nothing really compares to this!
     
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    Reize Notebook Virtuoso

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    If you can sacrifice the HD space, there's a similarly configured one for $1350

    The following is by Jasonck08

    1) Go to: http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/xps_rfc?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs (Click XPS M170)

    2) On the first page downgrade the CPU (-$200), the HD (-$215), the Wireless card (-$59) and the Microsoft software (-$149)

    3) Click Continue and go to the 2nd page and downgrade the warranty from a 2 year to a 1 year (-$180)

    4) Click Continue and go to the 3rd page and downgrade the backpack ($-59)

    Your final price is $1349.
     
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    Reize Notebook Virtuoso

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    Er nevermind, you can keep the HD space, just not quite as fast of a CPU and never buy RAM before market from Dell, horribly overpriced.
     
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    I checked the ram and you would have to replace the 1g (2X512 chips) and buy two 1g's at about the same price as the $225. Do you think the CPU downgrade would be worth it ($200) how much performance would you loose?
     
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