…excel still more

Ok so I really should wait until it actually gets delivered, but I couldn’t… My New Laptop… WHOPEEE. The Dell XPS M1210…

When it’s delievered (expecting it next next week… but hey if it comes early I’ll be really happy…) I’ll take a picture of my smiling face beside it, but for now, here’s some generic pic from some website somewhere…

Anyway, I bought it last Saturday – actually I should say, my dad bought it. Call it an extended, 0% interest, financing… or well with my parents it’s more like a line of credit. LOL. But yeah, I’m determined of course to pay them off – as I’m sure they’re determined on collecting. I already have a “payment plan” down.

But yeah, it is a 12.1″ laptop – which is supposed to mean it’s an “ultraportable” however, it’s thick – 1.2″ (most ultraportables are below 1″ thick) but that’s because it has a ton of ports (4 USB Ports?!?!? Sick…). I didn’t do much upgrades – even though all the reviews I’ve read kept saying you should upgrade. Hey. I’m a poor college student – I actually felt faint as my dad and I were walking away from the Dell place. It’s processor is a 1.66 Ghz Dual Core… 1Gb of 667Mhz RAM (the fastest around right now…). The best feature is the 256mb NVIDIA GeForce video card… which isn’t that great – as I’m learning more and more. First of all, even though it’s 256mb, only 64mb is actualyl dediccated memory. Which is plenty for the games I wanna run, but yeah… the rest of the memory is shared with the RAM (which is why faster RAM was a really smart choice for me). A guy in CNET.com told me that I could still run Call of Duty 2 if I wanted – it’s pretty much the only game I really want at the moment. But I shouldn’t look too much towards high end gaming.

I’m pretty happy with it – even though it’s not been delivered yet. But from what I read, it’s a pretty amazing laptop. Really portable, so I won’t struggle bringing it to school, but it’s still powerful enough for the kinds of games I wanna play (again, nothing too powerful). So yeah. YAY!!!

Phew. Now I’m excited.. I’ll be checking it like twice a day at least to see the progress… hehe.

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