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Dell
Inspiron 6000 Pentium M Centrino 2GHz laptop with
Radeon ATI X300 128meg graphics card and 1 Gig RAM.
Very
nice little computer. Long battery life, light, portable
and excellent to VJ with. 4 USB, s-video, One 4-pin firewire.
As
you can see, the WUVXGA screen is such high resolution
(1900 x1280 native) that Resolume only fills about half
the screen.
Online,
I've seen people complaining about Dell's service but
we always get the extended 3 year warranty and ever for
minor things, Dell Australia have been VERY helpful and
their service has been excellent.
If
you note that you're an "IT Professional" (ie
computer geek) in your online profile with Dell, then
when you have issues, they treat you with respect and
give long, detailed troubleshooting advice when you have
technical problems.
Having
owned... well, quite a lot of laptops over the years,
and pushing them as hard as we do (they're on at least
8 hours a day, often working in video), we're of the opinion
that any laptop is going to have component failures. The
fact that you can pay to cover that with Dell really is
worthwhile.
It's
worth noting that the 6000 only comes with up to a 128
meg graphics card, whereas if you go for one of their
bigger 17" models for some reason you can get a more
powerful graphics card. Having lugged 17" laptops
around to gigs previously though, we don't think it's
worth the extra weight, less battery life etc to go for
a 17" - the 15.5" widescreen at WUXGA resolution
is much better we think.
You
can buy directly from Dell.com
or Dell.com.au
in Australia where you can fully customise your specs
or
Dell
6000
- You can sometimes buy fixed-spec versions for very cheap
through Amazon. You can then bulk up the specs, eg adding
more RAM as unlike Dells back in the day, they now accept
many standard components.
A
few reviews of the Dell Inspiron 6000:
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