Imagine the frustration with Dell when I placed the order on the 11 January and a few days later they told me due to multiple part shortage, the shipment date is pushed to 28 January!!!!
Thank goodness it arrived on the 25th instead.
No doubt this is a company laptop and so I'm constrained by a little budget. Otherwise I would have gotten the XPS 1330 with LED screen. But my boss would kill me by then....... :PAll that said, I'm actually very pleased with this baby. The specs which I got was:
- Core 2 Duo 7250
- 2 gb RAM
- 160GB HDD
- 1200x800 Truelife screen
- Intel X3100 Graphics
- 2MP camera and fingerprint scanner
- WIFI a/g/n
- Bluetooth 2.0
- 6 cell battery
- Vista Business edition
- "Small" Dell carrying bag
- 2GB Thumbdrive
If you haven't noticed, the battery has a section that "sticks" out from the chassis. Not particularly good looking. :P
The keyboard is acceptable but the ".", "," and "/" keys are half sized. So it takes a while to get used to. Also the function key is on the right side of the right ctrl key so you tend to press the func key when you are trying to press ctrl.
Whats cool and what I liked most was that all the indicator lights and media keys are in blue!!!! :D Even the LED for webcam and the indicator on the adaptor are blue. Hahahahhaha !!! I love it!!!
Battery life should be ok as I was on WIFI, surfing while doing some Word and Excel files and iTunes playing in the background for slightly over 2 hours and the capacity was 49% remaining.
This is how it looks like in a dark environment. Imagine if all the keys are lighted up in blue too!!!! Hahahahaha that would be TOO much for me!!!!
I've yet to test the WIFI N connection. I'm thinking of getting the Belkin N router. I've seen it at the shops selling for about RM380. I think the price can be bargained a little. :)
Till then I'll be "messing" with this baby for most of my working hours. In short I am happy with this baby.
