Dell.ca Deal Details

what’s the deal with the crappy CPU

Intel Celeron M M540 (1.86GHz, 1M L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB)

Well, the CPU won’t make it a power house, but it’s double the speed of an overclocked EeePC, and that is really fine for a lot of things.

Careful, this is the one with the whacked up keyboard according to this guy;

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacobgordon/2455618195/in/photostream/

I think the keyboard issue only affects the European models. This is the North American model: http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/32661.jpg

running Vista with 1 Gb of RAM.  Yeah, I might as well use a pocket calculator.

Well, naturally you’d take the XP option (or upgrade the RAM).

Would the video card upgrade actually be worth it with that crappy CPU?

Is there anywhere in the GTA to look at Dells in person?  I’ve never bought one but this seems like a decent deal for my GF that just wants it for web browsing/IM/email/word processing/etc.  She wants to see it and preferably play with one before she buys though.

especially because it has crappy CPU, an upgraded video card will actually be a great help.  You can see this item at Dell kiosk at Vaughn Mills.

Hmm I was thinking that about the video card but figured anything that actually taxed the video card would be held back by the CPU anyway so wasn’t sure if it was worth it or not.

Thanks for the info!

it depends what you use it for.  If you watch DVD, do a little of photo editing.  All that will help.  2 Gb memory will help tremendously too.

Be aware this laptop uses mono speaker.

If you back out in to the small business section and select the 1310, you can choose the model with a c2d in it. its about $100 more than this one and well worth it imo.

Hi reactor, tried your suggestion but it came out to 699 for me (core 2 duo and 2 gig ram).

http://configure.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=ca&CS=cabsdt1&l=en&OC=N13102X_F_1E

Deal is dead.