Speaking of dude, I'm getting a Dell. In order to be able to compress all my worldly goods, most of which are binary, into the smallest possible space, I need a laptop capable of doing DirectX 8.1 things properly (so I can still do 3D programming without taking my desktop with me). Which means an ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 or an NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go. Since the laptops I got for Damask and Holly had ATI chipsets, and that aspect has been trouble, and since my wanderings around review things suggested that ATI were still being pretty lax with their driver quality, and since the GeForce4 4200 Go is much nicer, albeit also much hotter and more power-hungry (not so much an issue, since I don't want it for actual regular travelling, but rather for irregular moving), I decided for the NVIDIA, which limited my choice of supplier rather a lot since that's a sparkly new device. Alienware haven't caught up yet, unfortunately, since apart from the GPU their spec was much nicer for the money (which was surprising since their desktops are extortionate). So, anyway, it's a Dell Inspiron 8500; 2.2GHz 15.4" WUXGA 512MB 60GB, 64MB Geforce4 4200 Go, plus integrated 802.11g wireless, spare battery and floppy drive.
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