Got a Dell...

A fellow member here sold his Latitude D830 for $650. The buyer was me. It came with a dock, has a T7400, 2 GB ram, 100gb 7200 hard drive, wuxga screen 1920x1200.

It was too good of a deal to pass up. This computer will hold me over for a year until I buy a new Asus G50 next summer.

I'm hoping the build quality is as good as they say it is, considering it is a business line.

Anything I need to be aware of?? Any known problems?

 

Its a darn good computer, my financee's D820 has NEVER had a problem.

And all the time she happily computed, I had quite a few issues with other notebooks .

 

wow that seems like a pretty good deal! do you know how old it was and if there was any prior damage to it?

 

Congrats, its a great notebook. I know a external it guy and he suggests this computer as a primary laptop to all of his business travelers, enough assurance for me at least.

 

Sounds like a great deal to me, too. Congrats to you.

/makes note to check FS items more closely and much more often. LOL

 

Is it possible to upgrade the CPU in this?

 

Yes, it's possible to upgrade the CPU, but the T7400 is pretty good already, so I wouldn't recommend it.

 

You won't be able to upgrade to one of the newer ones though. You'll only be able to upgrade to other Napa-chipset compatible CPUs. So... T7600 or T7800, but that's it. Probably not worth it... the T7400 shouldn't be bad at all. If you're looking for an upgrade... maybe either a bigger hard drive or an SSD, depending on your needs.

 

I have a D430 and a D630 and they're both great machines. I hope you enjoy your Latitude!