Deal:
Vostro A860 2.13GHz 1GB 120GB 15.6" Laptop PC $399 at Dell Business
Dell Business has the Vostro A860 15.6" Laptop PC for $379 + $20 shipping = $399 shipped. | Dell Outlet Inspiron Mini 9 1.6GHz 512MB 4GB 8.9" $277  Discuss (4) |
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#1
jpsmitty14 - Posted 4:49 pm PST 11/20/08 (65 Posts)
Does anyone have any history with this model? I am not familiar with it. I should probably avoid the celeron processor?
#2
haanul - Posted 4:54 pm PST 11/20/08 (183 Posts)
I ordered three. (not for myself; but for work as loaner laptops.) This one for the price doesn't seem bad at all. 3.8LB is quite light for the size of the LCD.
#3
greggish - Posted 5:03 pm PST 11/20/08 (78 Posts)
#2 the weight for this is 5.4 lbs.
#4
devnull4321 - Posted 5:11 pm PST 11/20/08 (181 Posts)
Celeron is slow with Vista Basic. But this should be good for folks who only wants to browse the net, email, IM, word, and some not too graphic intensive games.
#5
doomed - Posted 5:16 pm PST 11/20/08 (137 Posts)
The problem is not being a celeron. Bet XP or better yet Linux would work wonders on it.
#6
the lawyer - Posted 5:16 pm PST 11/20/08 (3232 Posts)
agree this cpu looks hella slow.
#7
Justanod - Posted 5:24 pm PST 11/20/08 (314 Posts)
I like Vista. I have a similar computer. Vista runs fine. Its not slow. Its not uncool. Its fine. Dammit, if Steve Ballmer says I should run Vista, then I'm running Vista. Its fine.
#8
joe_knowitall - Posted 5:44 pm PST 11/20/08 (1900 Posts)
Vista is fine, you just have to get new software and that costs mucho dollaro
#9
haanul - Posted 5:47 pm PST 11/20/08 (183 Posts)
#3, thanks. I got confused with $350 lappy from buy.com. I bought a Vostro 1510 for $375 a few weeks ago. A860 is little lighter than my Vostro 1510.
#10
xperteas - Posted 6:58 pm PST 11/20/08 (23 Posts)
not a bad deal for a basic laptop
#8 - You will have to upgrade very few programs from XP to vista anymore.
#11
seabear52 - Posted 9:48 pm PST 11/20/08 (69 Posts)
What no burner and no options for CPU
#12
Shekinahnow - Posted 11:48 pm PST 11/20/08 (76 Posts)
no deal, there were better deals before with better CPUs.
#13
TheKitty - Posted 2:15 am PST 11/21/08 (1415 Posts)
better than those Atom netbooks at the same price
#14
sparky109 - Posted 2:24 am PST 11/21/08 (122 Posts)
better than the atom notebooks but certainly not a deal to die for.
#15
Triangel - Posted 4:11 am PST 11/21/08 (152 Posts)
a budget laptop, but still higher than last WM deal
#16
WattsNet - Posted 5:32 am PST 11/21/08 (57 Posts)
If you have a little know-how you can use anyone's Dell XP Pro restore cd to overwrite Vista without any license issues. Then it's just a matter of using the driver cd to wrap things up. Well worth a couple hours of your time.
#17
cmcf - Posted 5:42 am PST 11/21/08 (169 Posts)
does Vista still need 2GB of RAM to really run or is a Celeron with 1GB going to cut it?
#18
rdcollns - Posted 7:34 am PST 11/21/08 (829 Posts)
I would think you are better off waiting for a deal on one with a dual core processor and a DVD burner. They are extremely common at just $50 - $100 more.
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