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Posted by Stephan (Member # 7549) on :

I was told after school that tomorrow we get to choose a laptop to replace our current school ones. The choices are:

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Lenovo ThinkPad X100E Laptop Description

PGCPS-X100E DLY PGCPS STAFF/FACULTY X100E LAPTOP
TBD LVO LENOVO X100E LAPTOP
• And Athlon Neo MV-40 processor – 1.60GHz – 512K cache
• 4GB memory (2x2GB)
• 250GB 5400 RPM hard drive
• No optical drive
• 802.11b/g/n wireless
• Integrated Gigabit Ethernet NIC
• 6-cell battery
• Windows Vista Home Basic

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Dell Latitude E5410 (224-8144)
Processor: Latitude E5410, Intel Core i3 350M, 2.26GHz, 1066MHz 3M L2 Cache (317-5411)
Processor: Intel Core i3 Processor (330-8927)
Memory: 4.0GB, DDR3-1333 SDRAM, 2 DIMM for Latitude (317-3590)
Keyboard: Documentation (English) Latitude E-Family/Mobile Precision (330-1652)
Keyboard: Internal English Keyboard Single Pointing, Dell Latitude E5410/E5510 (330-7773)
Video Card: Express Card without modem, Dell Latitude E5410 (320-1504)
Hard Drive: 250GB Hard Drive 9.5MM,7200RPM, Dell Latitude E (342-0479)
Hard Drive Controller: Dell Touchpad with Anti-microbial protection, Dell Latitude E5410 (330-8049)
Floppy Disk Drive: 14.1 inch Wide Screen WXGA Anti-glare LED Panel, Dell Latitude E5410 (320-8881)
Operating System: Vista Home Basic Service Pack 2, 32-bit, No media, English, Dell Latitude (421-5460)
Operating System: You have chosen a Vista Basic System (310-8759)

Any opinions?

Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :

Get the dell, the i3 is much faster, but otherwise they equally suck, also its hd speed is faster.

Posted by Stephan (Member # 7549) on :

I just can't believe they are spending countless thousands on new laptops, and are giving us Vista Basic.

Posted by MattP (Member # 10495) on :

Yeah, that's... weird. I didn't even know you could get Laptops with Vista preinstalled still.

Also, I'd go with the Dell.

Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :

My computer expert friends are yelling at me to say to get the Thinkpad instead as they're indestructible.

If your using the laptop for business and you cant afford to send it to the shop for a month you should go for the thinkpad.

My friends are threatemomg me with bodily harm to inform you of this! They're serious [Smile]

Presumably the Vista will be overwritten by whatever windows your school board can get liscensed from Microsoft, you SHOULD be able to easily get get Windows 7 and BE SURE my friends suggest to ask for a 9 cell battery, it's a minor upgrade for a big improvement.

Basically they had someone come in for a tech demo with a think pad, threw it on the ground and jumped ontop of it several times, picked it up and it still worked.

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

The Latitude is a faster machine; the Thinkpad is of a higher build quality. You should get Vista off there as soon as possible, if not sooner. [Smile]

Posted by Stephan (Member # 7549) on :

Thanks! I'll go with the Thinkpad. I have a laptop of my own and a desktop, so speed it not a concern. I am just going to chain it to my media cart for Power Point presentations and check email.

I will get Vista off if I can. I may not have administrative rights to change anything myself. I will ask when I check it out if I can.

I don't believe my county is using Windows 7 anywhere yet. Every machine in the building currently has Windows XP.