What do you think of Inspiron 4150

[moco]

Hi all,

After reading all the comments and suggestions from you guys I have decided to go for PC laptop and I am thinking to buy Dell's Inspiron 4150 notebook. I really like to buy Inspiron 8200 but it seems too heavy and too expensive.

Inspiron 4150 comes with ATI? MobilityTM RadeonTM 7500 16MB(or32MB) and the rest of the ports are same as 8200 as below except no firewire.

9-pin serial connector
25-hole pin parallel connector
Serial infrared communications port (lrDA-1.1 compliant)
Audio jacks: headphones (same as line-out), external mic-in
15-pin monitor connector
6-pin PS/2-style keyboard, mouse, and keypad
USB (Universal Serial Bus) 4-pin connector
S-Video for TV out
RJ11 and RJ45 connector

So my question is is it possible to have dual displays(projector and LCD monitor) with 4150? 8200 comes with GeForce4 Go. Does it really really make a big difference?

Thanks millions in advance!!

Moco

[sleepytom]

the ati cards do dual display if your running winME or XP (not in 2k though)

no firewire will be a major pain in the arse (you might not have a DV camera yet but you will buy one and more software will be doing video out over firewire soon)

have a look at the latitude 840 - its allmost the same as the inspiron 8200 32meg geforce4 graphics - there quite a bit cheaper than the inspirons i think (the lcd screen is not quite as good - it does 1400 x 1050 where as the inspiron does 1600x1200)

whatever you do remember to buy the extended warrenty as the build quality of dell laptops is not good and you will break it