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Old 12-05-2005, 08:12 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Question Things to do to a brand new laptop?

well ups's tracking system says i will finally be recieving my long anticipated laptop from dell

specs:

Inspiron 6000
-Intel Pentium M Processor 770 (2.13GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB)
-15.4 inch WSXGA+ LCD Panel
-1GB, Shared DDR2, 533MHZ 2 Dimm
-128MB ATI Mobility Radeon X300 Video Card
-80GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive
-Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 zs Card
-Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
-CD/DVD Burner
-9 Cell Battery
-6 Cell Spare
-Internal Dell Wireless 350 Bluetooth
-Free Printer!

+ other goodies!!

PRICE: $1,347.62 after dell coupons applied!!!

anyways i want to know basically when i get it, is there going to be alot of pointless stuff from dell on there that is only going to slow my notebook down?

and second if i reformat my system what all will i loose
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Inspiron 6000
-Intel Pentium M Processor 770 (2.13GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB)
-15.4 inch WSXGA+ LCD Panel
-1GB, Shared DDR2, 533MHZ 2 Dimm
-128MB ATI Mobility Radeon X300 Video Card
-80GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive
-Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 zs Card
-Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
-CD/DVD Burner
-9 Cell Battery
-6 Cell Spare

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Old 12-05-2005, 08:48 AM   #2 (permalink)
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im not sure if it applies to dell, but my guess is it does.

my past experience with computers prebuilt for you are that

yes, it does comes with tools you can probably live withought.
yes, some of the stuff are useless, you probably wont even need.
yes, some of the stuff are trials, or demos, so there really is no point in keeping it

if you reboot, nothing will happen. it will still be the same laptop.

however, if you reformat, it will probably be the same, the recovery disc/xp disc (whatever you got) will most likely install almost the same setup if its a "manuafacture" made/programed/patched disc. if its a new xp, you can probably get a clean install.

conclusion:
if you wish, you can opt for a format, you wont lose much, you will just have to reinstall and update the drivers and hardwares.
---what i will probably do is just uninstall the unused/demos/trials.
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Old 12-05-2005, 09:32 AM   #3 (permalink)
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"reboot"........my bad i meant reformat......but thanks i will probably just do that and unistall them

and how do you think my specs look for the price? i used a $750 coupon!!!!
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-Intel Pentium M Processor 770 (2.13GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB)
-15.4 inch WSXGA+ LCD Panel
-1GB, Shared DDR2, 533MHZ 2 Dimm
-128MB ATI Mobility Radeon X300 Video Card
-80GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive
-Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 zs Card
-Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
-CD/DVD Burner
-9 Cell Battery
-6 Cell Spare

other toy.....97 Black Cobra Mustang w/ license plates "BLK VNM" :D
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Old 12-05-2005, 10:10 AM   #4 (permalink)
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sounds like you got a pretty good deal. i got a toshiba satelllite m45 s351 for roughly 1250 and did not get as much as what you got, so in my opinions, that coupon served you well.
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Old 12-05-2005, 12:38 PM   #5 (permalink)
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It seems a bit expensive to me, but nothing u can do now, lol

Anyway, when i got my laptop they included a bunch of software that i didnt want. But there was 1 program that i wanted to keep, it was the battery manager where you can lower the brightness, cpu speed, ect. For my laptop, i could go to www.acer.com and download the software, so im sure you can with dell to.
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