DELL Inspiron 640m

Hello there. I'm good by the way. It's been a while but I have been very busy with work. Usually less work at the end of the year, but where I work, this is not the case. This is my final month in my current company, so feeling a little sad. But to move forward, we have to leave something behind. And that's true, since there have been good memories, and wealthy experience

Anyway, I'm writing this post here using my first laptop. Seriously, I never had a laptop for myself. The first laptop that I remember was my dad's, and it's a 386. The screen was very small (and I was small then...) but the laptop is not that big but it's very thick. Ah, yes, the laptop was a Texas Instruments. The second one was also my dad's, and it's a COMPAQ. Lasted for one year plus, just after the warranty ended. And because of that my dad did not buy a laptop since. And the third one was my sister's. An ASUS laptop. I've bought this laptop (not financially of course) for my sister's birthday, and I was amazed by it's specs. A Pentium III 1.13 GHz Tualatin, 256MB RAM and 15GB HDD, Mobility Radeon, which was impressive even for a Pentium III class desktop. But that's the thing. The first lesson I learn, don't buy a laptop purely because of its specs. The laptop was so damn heavy! And buy from a respectable brand.

Mine is a DELL Inspiron 640m, or internationally known as Inspiron E1405. The reason I picked a DELL was not because of it's brand, but rather because of it's online store. I customized the laptop to fit a Core 2 Duo T5500 (1.66GHz), 1GB of DDR2 667, 60GB Seagate Momentus.7200 (yes, you assume correctly, a 7200 RPM notebook hard disk) and a 14.1 TrueLife with WSXGA+ (1440x900 resolution rocks!). Well, the TrueLife is actually a glossy LCD by the way. Oh, with an original Windows XP Home.

Actually one of the things I regretted was not picking Windows XP Media Center Edition, as right now Microsoft is promoting a free upgrade to Windows Vista if you use XP MCE or XP PRO. But including that in my purchase was a no as my budget does not permit me. But what the hell, XP Home is not that bad anyway (unless you are planning to develop Oracle Forms/Database, then we have a problem)

I'll be using this laptop for "work" ;-). I'll leave that to you for the interpretation. Till next time.