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Old 02-08-2008, 04:34 PM  
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I don't have one, but I have had to work with a couple.

Pros - A lot of everything in a nice package. Once you dump Dell's OS and reinstall everything from scratch, it's fine.

Cons - Dell TruMobile Wifi card is a hunk of crap, I'd avoid it. Intel is a bit better and from what I've used w/ intel, it's a good idea to take a second wifi card with that's PCMCIA as I've ran into connection issues w/ Intel on occasion, but far less than TruMobile when trying to use WPA.
When re-installing, the media button will re-partition the drive if you make it a single partition and install windows. so, I've ended up having the machine wipe itself out after I reinstalled.

Basically, if you don't use their media thing (which is a modded winxp anyway, so it's not much of a battery saver), it's fine for a laptop if you're going intel based.

I will probably go Apple for my next one, as I don't care for Vista.
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