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TonyEX
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That's a D630. Dual Core. Likely XP Pro. We have for E630s and one e830 at home as LAN clients. Great machines. Been buying them used/refurbished on eBay for years. The last one I bought has a 2.5G dual core and I paid 250 bucks for it last year!!!
Nowadays they are issuing Dell E5420. My wife got one with a dual core I5.
My old, old employee issued me a 630. My current employee issued me a 5420 with a top of the line i7... ;-)
I'm thinking of upgrading our own 630s with 5420s too. Win 7 Pro.
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xBeastx
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I'm still Windows Vista hahaha. Pentium E2200 Dual core 2.2 GHz...it sucks!
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TonyEX
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xAbSoLuTexZeRo wrote:
I'm still Windows Vista hahaha. Pentium E2200 Dual core 2.2 GHz...it sucks!
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Actually, to make your life more envious... I mistyped... both my wife and I have E6420s... no E5420s....
Your issue is not necessarily the Dual 2.2... It's VISTA... because that OS simply sucked and is not widely supported.
On eBay you can find many E630s running XP, with the OEM recovery disks -otherwise I don't touch them- and the Nvidia video option and 4GB RAM/2.5GHz processor for around $300. Those will run a nice 24" display via the DVI and another via the RGB.
Of course, my 6420 has dual DVI.... and it runs dual displays at work.... Funny thing. shhhh don't tell our corporate IT... we don't need those fast processors since most of our compilations and software builds are made in the Linux farm, so our laptops are pretty much for the "cool" stuff like email, webex, driving the hardware debbugers... while the Linux farm -which is huge and fast- does the real crunch work.
But I don't complain. ;-)
And, yes, you can find refurbished Dell E6420s running Win 7 Pro on the Internet for $700 for the i5 and $900 for the i7.
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ehaley
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I have a D830 and a Precision Workstation 490 (Dual Xeon), but I don't really use them anymore now that I have a Dell Precision Mobile M6600 (i7 Quad, 16GB, SSD, IPS RGBLED screen, Blu-Ray...), which Dell sent, at no charge, to replace my wonky 18 month old M6500.
Many will say that Dell's consumer laptops are nothing special, and I would have to agree with that. They also took some missteps for a couple of years with their business laptops (E4/E5 and M4/M5 series), which were good machines, but they apparently had some internal design issues that would cause random lockups for no logical reason. That being said, Dell seems to have fixed the issues. I've heard great things about their E6 series, and their M6600 is outstanding! Hasn't locked up once and is MUCH faster than my M6500 ever was.
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Gfn8r
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Rockin' a Precision M4400 with dual-core 3.04GHz Extreme chip, 320GB HDD, and the nicest part, the 1920X1200 LED-backlit screen! (If it breaks, I'm screwed--Dell no longer offers this resolution, which also happens to be the native resolution of my Dell 24" wide-screen hooked to the docking port! ;-D )
I wouldn't bother with the consumer stuff just because there's nothing available service-plan-wise which will allow me to speak passable English with someone on this side of the Atlantic if there's a problem (and I'm too lazy to look that up on Dell, so no flames, please), even though unlike when I bought my M4400 three years ago, they are now charging extra at each level of service for 24/7, N/A support.
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