[DEAD! Dell Inspiron B130 Laptop w/ 15.4" LCD, 1GB, DVD Burner, WiFi - $499 Shipped]

This is a great deal for a notebook. I just told a friend whose in the market for one to order it. The Celeron 380 is based on the P-M, just a slower FSB and smaller cache.

 

For 99% of most people, this cpu has more than enough processing power. It'll encode video (divx/xvid/mpeg2,etc) on par with a desktop P4 running at ~2.8-3GHz.

 

I've got two notebooks - a compaq nx7010 (P-M 1.7GHz) and just picked up it's replacement - an HP nx7400 (Core2Duo 1.83GHz). 95% of the time I use the notebooks, I have the speedstep software (which allows you to control the cpu frequency) running at the slowest it'll drop to.

 

For the "M" that's 600MHz and the Core2Duo it's ~900MHz. I run in this mode for just about everything I do (email, web browsing, mp3 playback, dvd playback, office, etc) and you'd not know it wasn't running at full speed. The advantage is two fold - one the notebook stays cooler, so you can actually use it on your "lap" and two -- when not plugged into an AC power source, the battery life is a heck of a lot longer.

 

The only time I set the frequency to full speed is if I'm doing video encoding or compressing files, etc.

 

If you need a notebook -- don't bother waiting in some line for 15 hours to save $100 or $150 bucks vs this deal. At $499, I don't know how dell is making any money on it haha. Especially since it comes with a dvd burner, 1GB memory and a printer.

 

-frak

[what time do you get in line]

Am I reading this right....

 

people are going to stand in line at these stores starting at 10pm the night BEFORE? for a store thats opening at 6am?

 

I don't think there is "anything" at these stores worth standing outside of a store for 8 hours. Not unless it's a $5000 plasma they are selling for a grand.

 

frak

[What stores are doing the midnight opening?]

Looked through the threads, didn't see any that list what stores are opening at midnight today (wed) or tomorrow thursday.

 

The idea of going shopping at 5am doesn't seem all that appealing.

 

thanks.