rolf Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 (edited) That D630 is awesome. I have the smaller version, D430, and after 4.5 years (!!!!) I decided that it was becoming too slow for me (needed to run multiple VM's, run CUDA, etc). Note that it had a worse HDD, only 2GB memory and a lot slower CPU, yet still ran Win7 smoothly, was rock solid and still no damage (and I abuse laptops, FYI). I have some experience with the D830 as well, the owner said that it was too large, but actually still quite nice. The build quality of the/those Dell Latitudes is truly amazing. Edited December 1, 2012 by rolf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jefke Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 That D630 is awesome. I have the smaller version, D430, and after 4.5 years (!!!!) I decided that it was becoming too slow for me (needed to run multiple VM's, run CUDA, etc). Note that it had a worse HDD, only 2GB memory and a lot slower CPU, yet still ran Win7 smoothly, was rock solid and still no damage (and I abuse laptops, FYI). I have some experience with the D830 as well, the owner said that it was too large, but actually still quite nice. The build quality of the/those Dell Latitudes is truly amazing. personally, don't have much experience with Dell (except some problems with aftersales => nothin serious, did blacklist them a while, but now using their screens again XD). But I did only hear good things about the latitude serie (same with the thinkpad series though) So I would suggest: go for the dell and upgrade the ram. Should be a good buy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulJAHmon Posted December 14, 2012 Author Share Posted December 14, 2012 (edited) Well, we finally pulled the trigger tonight. I worked my butt off on a side job to secure the funds. I got daughter A, the Kindle Fire HD, from radio shack for $199 plus tax, and I got daughter B, an ASUS X401-A, new-in-box, notebook ( ON SALE !! ) with 4GB, 320, etc. win 8, at Best Buy, for $236.99. https://deals.bestbuy.com/computers+amp+tablets2/product/6999323/asus++14quot+laptop++4gb+memory++320gb+hard+drive++black Thanks again for all your input guys. Now, we just need to figure out how to use them, lol !!! Edited December 14, 2012 by soulJAHmon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jefke Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 That's a dam good price for a laptop One quick note fyi: if she can't get used to the fullscreen menu in windows 8 => start8 ($5) brings the startbutton back. This is just extra information, because I don't expect it will be a problem ^^. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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