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I just bought from Dell a laptop (dual-core) and a desktop (quad) for 700
laptop has a 250 Gb HD and the desktop a 750 Mb HD and a 20 inch screen.
The trick with Dell is that there's always some "special deals" available
and if you're already a client they bombard you with discount vouchers and
such. Also, it's sometimes possible to buy at discount or even bulk prices
(down to 40% off), when one belongs to an organisation that is in
partnership with Dell.
> 4. Why in the name of God would you even *need* that much RAM anyway?
Unless one works exclusively with text-based applications, there's *** never
*** enough RAM. Others have mentioned it already, but even cheap cameras and
camcorder can now generate massive amounts of data and one needs a lot of
RAM to handle this smoothly. Particularly, non-geek family members can be
extremely Gigabytes-hungry once they figured out that one can take
great-looking movies of everything that moves ("no, you can't attach 15 Gb =
90 min of high-def wailing baby movie to your email and send it to all your
friends")...
But even for non-graphic, professional applications, there's never enough
RAM anyway: the more you have, the more you will be tempted to use and will
end up using: Law of the Constantly Maxed Out Resources.
G.
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