Dell 6000 is this one okay?

A friend of mine has been looking for a laptop for a while now. She was wanting me to help pick one out for her. We had been leaning towards a toshiba but I missed the 750 off coupon last time for dell. She wants something with a 15inch screen, battery life doesn't have to be that good but it can't be to heave. I have read places where they said the 6000 weighs 6.6lbs and other that say 7.2lbs. This will be carried around a fair amount, on average atleast once a month.

I have configured this, how does it sound.

Inspiron 6000
Intel® Pentium® M Processor 730 (1.60 GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB)
15.4 inch WXGA LCD Panel
512MB Shared DDR2 SDRAM 2 Dimms
Integrated Intel® Media Accelerator 900 Graphics
60GB Hard Drive
Integrated 10/100 Network Card and Modem
24X CD Burner/DVD Combo Drive
Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200 Internal Wireless (802.11 b/g, 54Mbps)
9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery (80 WHr)

This is going to be mainly used for typing stuff, internet no games though.
This will be 1506-750 coupon. I know certain stuff adds weight but around how much should this weigh?

Is there any reason to get a different screen?

also that is the new sonoma(sp?) procossor right?

 

just to let u know a new $750 coupon is being released tommorow

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by eddy1234

 

Looking at the price, Dell 6000 is cheaper ($800 with the coupon) than Toshiba M35 ($1000+). Dell has the 5400 RPM hard drive while Toshiba M35 has 4200 RPM hard drive. Toshiba may have a better screen than Dell. It depends on personal preference. Personally, I like Dell 6000 better.

 

The Dell can actually get pretty good battery life. I think it gets around 3-4 hours on the standard battery.

 

personally for batteries I'd just got a 9 cell spare battery and keep teh 6 cell also.. I believe the price to upgrade from 6 cell to 9 cell is almost the cost to get a spare 9 cell.

Other then that I may suggest more memory but that is only because you can't have too much even if she is just going to use the internet and type on it.

Dell I6000d
1.86 ghz
1 gig 400mhz ram
80 gig HD
Intel Pro 2915 a/b/g Wireless
15.4 " WXGA
Ati X300 128 mb
Nec Dvd +- RW 6500A

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by mikeakajb

 

The weight shouldn't be that bad... I mean most of the weight is in the battery after all. If she can get a backpack to put her notebook in it should be no trouble at all. As for the not needing a spare battery anyone can use one. The extra money for another battery will get it over 1500 and actually get you the battery for I think 30 bucks or so. You could always just keep the spare, sell it on ebay, or shoot send it my way for free LOL.

I mean the 9 cell will get about 5-6 hours if on max battery life and not doing anything too intense.

She could always look for a notebook that is 14.1 inch widescreen. Not many of those around. I heard it's about 14% less screen space then a 15.4 inch wide. It actually looks almost as big as a 15 inch standard.

Really I am thinking the 700m with the 14.1 would fit her better. It's more travel friendly and she can tote it around alot easier. Plus if she plans to use it mainly for typing and internet use it should work just fine. As for watching dvds on it hmm it shouldn't be all terrible.

It's up to her but I'd get the spare battery just in case. There's always celerons and intergrated graphics also.

I would definately say she will need more then 512 mb of ram though. Mainly cause windows by it self pretty much takes up over half of that. I have 1 gig of ram. and currently windows is using 400 mbs of it with 600 mb or so free. I also have a 1.5 gig page file.



Dell I6000d
1.86 ghz
1 gig 400mhz ram
80 gig HD
Intel Pro 2915 a/b/g Wireless
15.4 " WXGA
Ati X300 128 mb
Nec Dvd +- RW 6500A

 

Sorry meant the 600 M not 700 M

Dell I6000d
1.86 ghz
1 gig 400mhz ram
80 gig HD
Intel Pro 2915 a/b/g Wireless
15.4 " WXGA
Ati X300 128 mb
Nec Dvd +- RW 6500A

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by mustangless

 

"I would definately say she will need more then 512 mb of ram though. Mainly cause windows by it self pretty much takes up over half of that. I have 1 gig of ram. and currently windows is using 400 mbs of it with 600 mb or so free."

There is no way windows xp takes up 400m of ram. - more like 128m. 512m system memory is fine for most users. If the OS took up 400m then 256m ram would run like treacle, but it doesn't. More ram is almost always good, but there is a law of diminishing returns: from the minimum (128m, where the OS will load) to 256m is a huge improvement (128m left beyond space for the OS). From 256m to 512m there is also a significant improvment, but less. For many operations, 1024m will show even less of a difference.