I, Me and Myself

Dell XPS 1210 it is then.

In Laptop, Technology on February 4, 2007 at 10:26 am

I have pretty much decided to go ahead and buy the Dell XPS 1210. Been in the market to buy a laptop for quite a while now.

I was always looking for a light weight laptop, that I could carry to the office, to my living room and balcony, with ease.
2 -2.5 kgs is what I was looking at. I also wanted Vista. I could have gone ahead and bought a Windows XPP based system, but then, Why should one buy a 5 year old operating system, specially if there is a new one just round the corner?

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The other things that I wanted to do with this was

  1. Play Fifa 2007 and the latest Need for Speed with ease.
  2. Use it for my day to day Java,Ruby and PHP development activities.
  3. Run Ubuntu.
  4. Make BSNL’s Dataone Broadband work on it.

I had the following configuration in mind before venturing out. I wanted

  1. At least 2GB RAM, in order to run Aero, and still have plenty of room left for Eclipse and InetlliJ.
  2. A mid range graphics card like the ATI X1400 or NVidia Go 7400/7600.
  3. At least 1280*800 screen resolution
  4. Around 4lb-5lb in weight
  5. Built in network card, wireless and bluetooth support and a DVD burner
  6. A decent processor. Should at the very least be 64-bit.
  7. Vista

I basically had 4 other choices

  1. Sony Vaio SZ Series, 13.3 inch screen Nvidia Go 7600.
  2. Toshiba M100 with a 14 inch screen
  3. HP Pavilion 2100 series
  4. Apple Mac Book with it’s 13.3 inch screen.

The reasons for not going with the above choices are many. I will list them in the later posts.