which dell model is the thinnest & lightest? I dont need blazing power, but i noticed at bestbuy that some laptops had far superior "HD" displays that looked incredible. do Dell laptops come with those screens as well?

 

I have a 700m like 478124897 of my friends. Nicest screen out of all the dell's and small but decently powerful. 600m is a lil more powerful, but also a bit bigger.

Jason

 

700m. Its a good laptop, nice screen and light as well.

 

my 700m was soaked by my leaking bathroom. 2 days later all that was wrong was the wifi card. dell sent a replacement quick fast.

get the 30gb hd and just replace it with an aftermarket one. also get the 8cell battery if you'll be travelling alot.

 

I picked a Fujitsu Lifebook (S7010D) over the Dell 700 back in February. I played with the keyboards and stared at the screens (Dell kiosk at a local mall) and I was not impressed by the Dell. Great price though.

 

Dell's new ultraportable is the X1: http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2283

 

DO NOT GET A DELL LAPTOP. Do a search on them. They have major power problems. The screen starts to flicker, and then the power will stop charging, thus turning your laptop into a paperweight. Dell doesnt fix this, they make you buy a new mobo for $750. I had a guy in buffalo fix mine, and he told me he does 8 of them a day. Google Dell laptop problems, and youll get what I mean. Get anything else but dell.

 

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I work for a Fortune 5 company and come to think of it we ALL have DELL laptops. Do you know something my CIO doesn't? 100,000 of us spend our day depending on this tool.

Throughout the day I bounce from DELL laptop to HP XW8200 Linux station to DELL XPS to iBOOK. For the $ the DELL laptop does a pretty good job.

 

I'm assuming he's asking for a Dell laptop since that's probably what his company purchases. If that's not the case, I agree - go with something else of you have the option.

CIO's go with Dell's because they are the most cost effective of the name-brand systems, not necessarily because they are the most reliable. In our company everyone has a Dell except for 3 people - our CEO and the 2 people that support him, who all have IBM x40's.

In my opinion, Dell desktops are pretty solid, their business laptops are crap and their consumer laptops are a little better. I will say that their business laptops appear to be getting better... and anyone that has or had a C500 / C600 series knows there's nowhere to go but up :-)

 

I've never had problems with Dell laptops. You could search on the internet and find horror stories for every single laptop brand out there so doing that proves absolutely nothing.