College Laptop

[MayAMonkeyBeYourPinata]

Getting a Dell. Should I get an extended warranty or just stick with the 1 yr standard one.

[WaffleBaron]

How long of an extention?

[Dye Angel Guy]

If you have weak gaming requiremenets hit up your CompUSA and get an E-Machines for $500. If you want to upgrade later you will need to get a new one so take that into your calculations. You could just save some money and spend time in the library using there computers "free" that you pay for whether you use them or not.

[robnix]

Getting a Dell. Should I get an extended warranty or just stick with the 1 yr standard one.

Get the extended warranty and pay the extra for next day onsite, you'll need it. If you don't do the onsite, you'll be out of a laptop until it gets shipped to the RMA facility, repaired, and returned.

BTW, My staffs calls to get hardware issues repaired were 5 times higher with Dells than with Thinkpads. The last straw was when two brand new laptops both needed motherboard replacements within a month of reciept, for two different issues.

[MayAMonkeyBeYourPinata]

[Dye Angel Guy]

Go with AMD and NOT Intel if you have the chance.

[spwz99]

Go with AMD and NOT Intel if you have the chance.

I dont think Dell offers AMD.

[MayAMonkeyBeYourPinata]

only intel

[robnix]

Get more memory. The X1400 uses system memory IIRC.

[Dye Angel Guy]

Intel is good but personally I like AMD for gaming.

[Glickman]

Intel is good but personally I like AMD for gaming.

im a huge gaming AMD fan, but i would definately recommend intel for a well-priced laptop

[WaffleBaron]

Get more memory. The X1400 uses system memory IIRC.

I think its 128 dedicated and 128 shared. Either way the gig of memory should be fine unless you're running some high end animation or compilation jobs.