The $3000.00 USD Laptop

[longam]

I had the pleasure of ordering and setting up the most kickazz laptop I have ever laid my hands on today, and man was it sweet.

The CEO approached me about getting a laptop for the President of the company so we could pass his down to a sales person. So I put together some modest quotes and the CEO said beef it up, I asked how much, and he said beef it! Ok, noooo problem. (I like how these titles float around in this small company)

This unit is a Dell XPS 16 and the specs are below and I should have brought it home for a weeks worth of testing just in case something was wrong :haha:

About the price, could have bought 2 decent laptops for the same price.

My System Details
SYSTEM COLOR
Obsidian Black with Leather Accent
PROCESSOR
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T9800 (6MB cache/2.93GHz/1066Mhz FSB)
OPERATING SYSTEM
Genuine Windows® 7 Ultimate, 64bit, English
WARRANTY AND SERVICE
3 Yr Ltd Hardware Warranty, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis - Important Information

PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE
Microsoft® Office Professional 2007 - Small Business + Access database
HD DISPLAY
Edge-to-Edge FullHD Widescreen 16.0 inch RGBLED LCD (1920x1080) W/2.0 MP
MEMORY
6GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1067MHz (2 Dimms)
HARD DRIVE
500GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive
INTERNAL OPTICAL DRIVE
8X Slot Load CD/DVD Burner (Dual Layer DVD+/-R Drive)
VIDEO CARD
ATI Mobility RADEON™ HD 4670 – 1GB
WIRELESS CARDS
Dell Wireless 1520 802.11n Half Mini-Card
BATTERY OPTIONS
84 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery
SOUND OPTIONS
Soundblaster X-Fi Hi Def Audio - Software Enabled
BLUETOOTH
Dell Wireless 370 Bluetooth Module (2.1+EDR)
LCD and Camera


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[Arclight]

But can it run Crysis? :O:

And for how long? :lol:

[AVGWarhawk]

All that to send an email and hang on facebook. :har:

[NeonSamurai]

That is more or less the laptop I'm running (though I have the slightly older model with a lesser video card and lower end display). Though i only payed about 2500$ Canadian for mine

[longam]

I think Office was about $400 of the cost, so that would be about right....

[PeriscopeDepth]

Perhaps if he waited four months or so he could have gotten one of the first quad cores for notebooks. I'm sure he'd never notice the difference though, it's a beast as is.

PD

[Torvald Von Mansee]

All that to send an email and hang on facebook. :har:

You could pick up a netbook from CostCo which would do the precise same thing for about 300 bucks, tops.