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Nov 13, 2006 10:27

I want to buy a laptop, and Dell are doing a special at the moment: €549 for a Celeron-equipped job with 1 gig of RAM. Is it a good buy? I read once that the Celeron CPU is merely an updated Pentium I. Is that true? Will a Celeron chip be compatible with Vista when it comes out? Does that even matter?

Advice greatly appreciated...

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orange_foam November 14 2006, 10:43:55 UTC

Hmmm, that's interesting, O. Would it be that easy to just slot an extra 512MB of RAM into a new laptop that only has 256MB?

jer21 November 14 2006, 14:05:51 UTC

Try a MacBook - avoid Windows and Vista at all costs. :)

orange_foam November 14 2006, 16:11:51 UTC

Thanks for the tip - I considered the old Macs but they're outside of my meagre budget for now. How did you find my journal, by the way?

jer21 November 14 2006, 16:14:49 UTC

too bad. you can get them on a low payment plan when you buy from apple.com. it's a line of credit, but the frustration you save by avoiding windows, not to mention all the stuff a mac can do, makes it well worth it in my book.

found you thru JC (fixinthemix)...

orange_foam November 14 2006, 16:48:20 UTC

I'm a bit wary of compatability issues between Macs and non-Macs. I used to have a lot of trouble when using my flatmate's Linux OS laptop to edit/save files, only to find them corrupted when I logged on to a college computer.

Maybe that's not such a problem with Macs, which should be fairly streamlined at this stage, but still...

Also, when Dells are so cheap on their website, there seems little point in buying one elsewhere. God, I'm rambling now.

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