Posted by Vince on 10/21/2009, 11:01 am, in reply to "IF YOU CAN SEE IT, i am seriously considering buying it"
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If it's the same laptop shown, it appears to be a Dell 4000 series. I have one that looks nearly identical but mine is not a Pentium 1V; mine is a Pentium III with a 900 mhz processor.
It's definitely not super fast but it's pretty good.
I'm not a laptop kinda guy but I will say, I love this little machine! I've not seen another laptop LDC screen that beats this baby. It is REALLY sharp (satin surface and not glassy looking. I hate the glass look.) The keyboard is the craps but ... you can always plug on another keyboard. They're only like $12 or so.
Mine has 500 mb of ram, 30gb hard drive and a wireless card but no usb2. You will need to buy a usb2 card for that one, I bet. The date of these laptops is about 2000 and that was before usb2 came on the scene. You'll find yourself seriously handicapped without a usb2 card. These can be bought for something like $30. The usb card plugs into the side, just like the wireless card. I don't have one of those myself; just a wireless card.
The battery will likely be bad. LiIon batteries generally don't last for more than 4 years max. Even if the battery is good, running on battery SERIOUSLY reduces speed. The processor only runs at about 233mhz on battery. I just don't bother with the battery at all.
Mine originally came loaded with Millennium and was updated to W2K. I went a step further and installed XP. I had to get a few extra Dell drivers from their site but it wasn't a big problem at all. XP runs REALLY nice on it.
The one shown is probably a bit newer than mine but probably not much, seeing as the hard drive is exactly the same size.
It will have only a cd player; not a burner but ...... you can buy a burner for it, no doubt. The CD device plugs in just like a battery. Mine has only a CD player and ....... a floppy accessory. That is, I can unplug (pull out) the CD player and plug in the floppy drive.
As an ONLY machine I would feel too curtailed but as an accessory machine, it's a beautiful little laptop.
One thing I like too, is that you can plug in an external monitor and run that as a duplicate of the laptop screen or ........... run it as an extended desktop! Extended desktop means that it's like a side screen attached to the main screen. You can then drag windows over to the side monitor and run things simultaneously on two screens. So, for example, if you wanted to transcribe a document that you had scanned .... you could read it from the left screen and type in the right screen.
-Vince
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