so i have the chance to buy a laptop within the next week and i want everyone's opinion on it.
my friend bought one from dell with a bunch of rebates. i've played with it a few times, but haven't written down the model - anyway, it's cute and silver, he doesn't like it because the keyboard is too small. for some odd reason, dell made the keyboard
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and, per a previous entry a while ago, here are the things that i really wanted out of a notebook:
(1) wireless capable at school
(2) at least a four hour battery life
(3) word processing ability (silly, i know)
(4) quiet keyboard
(5) quiet fan
and while the last two may seem dumb, it makes a BIG DIFFERENCE in class...
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I'll look into the 700m
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As long as he's willing to help you out in case you need service and the service plan doesn't transfer(which, I'm not sure of, but a lot of people bought up laptops to sell on eBay and used the service as a selling point..), it's a good deal. I'm totally in love with my laptop, after hating them.
I didn't get an extended life battery, but I asked for one for Christmas.
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The only thing I would recommend you to do is to reformat the harddrive right away, and don't use Dell's XP cd. They put a 5 gig partition on every laptop, it's a backup of the operating system. 5 gigs gone out of 30 is *ridiculous*. I got an 80 gig harddrive and the partition still pissed me off, so I reformatted and used Kelly's XP Pro cd.
Circuit City at Great Northern had a few laptop bags for $30, if you were looking for something to carry it around in. I got a really nice one for $30 that I saw on Dell's website for $80.
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