right time to buy a d630?

I customized it pretty well and its only $1300, it will ship the 20th without the quadro card. Should I buy now or is a there a bigger pricebreak coming up?

Also is the quadro card capable of gaming and should I pay the extra $80 to upgrade from the x3100 or no? Then I would have to wait till mid-july for shipment..

 

$1300, nice! I pulled the trigger on one today too. I got tired of waiting to see if there was going to be a t61p 14" version.

tem Description Unit Price Quantity Total Price
Latitude D630
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7700 (2.40GHz) 4M L2 Cache, 800MHz Dual Core, Genuine Windows Vista™ Ultimate, with media $2,618.00 1 $2,618.00
Latitude D630 Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7700 (2.40GHz) 4M L2 Cache, 800MHz Dual Core
[222-7949]
LCDs 14.1 inch Wide Screen WXGA+ LCD Panel
[320-5289]
Memory 1.0GB, DDR2-667 SDRAM, 2 DIMMS
[311-5685]
Internal Keyboard Internal English Keyboard
[310-8768]
Graphics 128MBNVIDIA®QuadroNVS135M™
[320-5485]
Hard Drives 120GB Hard Drive, 9.5MM, 7200RPM
[341-4603]
Touchpad Options Touchpad with UPEK® Fingerprint Reader
[310-8793]
Floppy Drive No Floppy Drive
[340-8854]
Operating System Genuine Windows Vista™ Ultimate, with media
[310-9096]
[313-5029]
[466-6163]
Bluetooth Dell Wireless® 360 Bluetooth Module for Vista
[430-2275]
AC Adapter Dell Slim 65W Auto/Air/AC Adapter
[310-8812]
Media Bay Devices 8X DVD+/-RW w/ Roxio Creator Dell Edition Digital Media for Vista Ultimate
[313-5008]
Wireless LAN (802.11) Intel® 4965 802.11a/g/n Dual-Band Mini Card
[430-2375]
System Documentation Resource DVD - Contains Diagnostics and Drivers for Vista
[310-9096]
Battery 9 Cell Primary and 6 Cell Media Bay Batteries
[312-0067]
[312-0485]
Hardware Support Services 3 Year Limited Warranty plus 3 Year NBD On-Site Service
[982-3932]
[982-5768]
[982-7440]
[986-7987]
[986-7988]
CompleteCare Accidental Damage Service Add CompleteCare Accidental Damage Service to 3Yr Lim Warranty
[960-0407]
Ship Group US - System Documentation, Power Cord
[310-9094]
Miscellaneous Latitude D630
[466-6114]
Purchase Intent Purchase is not intended for resale.
[462-4506]
OS Labels Vista Premium Label
[310-8758]

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You maxed out the CPU but only got 1GB RAM?

Personally I would have tried to save some dough by getting the 2.2GHz CPU instead.

 

Well, I've got 2x2GB coming from elsewhere for it. I didn't want to pay Dell that amount of money for the 4GB upg.

tjk

 

I am pricing with 2.0ghz (save money but still 4mb chache) and 1gb (1dimm) so I can add 2 gb and make it 3gb total.

But still, what do you think about the quadro card?

 

Based on my research Quardo cards offered for D630 / D830, all have 64bit memory interface... I suppose they are good enough for light gaming ... but not for FPS games... Nvidia's website says they are for business users, but then the business appliccations they have tested are MS Office and alike ..

 

oh boy, I think you and Excalibur ahve launched yourselves into serious notebook trouble.

Check out the Latitude D630 review, and see what the owner ahd to go through to add the new memory sticks... REALLY unpleasant and scary work imo.

 

Thats why I will want the 1 dimm, I am hoping the rear access will be empty and they put the memory under the keyboard. Can anyone confirm this just in case?

 

I was looking at the D630 and I saw the only wireless card option was a minicard? Is this a removable card as opposed to an internal card?

 

All wireless cards for laptops are removable as far as I know.

 

No worries, I've done this on plenty of laptops, including the MBP - which is a royal pain to replace the ram and hdd, which I've done.

I'm pretty decent with hardware.

 

I know it's a royal pain to remove the HD in a MBP (having to completely disassemble the laptop), but the RAM has always seemed really simple to me (just remove the battery and unscrew the RAM access door, and that's it).

 

Here is a guide on how to remove and install RAM.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=130014


It's very thorough and step by step so if you open this up on another computer while you're operating on yours then you should be set to go!

Good luck

 

Yet you paid an extra $290 for only a 200Mhz upgrade on the processor? Smart choice on the RAM but then you sorta kicked yourself with the processor