Buying a new laptop

[Stan_Lite]

My current laptop isn't too bad for normal laptop type stuff (documents, videos, pictures etc.) but it's pretty crap at games. Some games refuse to play due to insufficient graphics and those that will play turn it into a very expensive George Foreman grill.

With me working away from home for long periods of time and being stuck on the rig with not much to do, I am starting to rely more and more on PC games to help pass the time.

I decided it was about time I got myself something that could "do the business" so I had a look around and found out that the new Dell XPS M1710 Pentium Duo T2600 is reputed to be the fastest laptop in the world at the moment so I had a look.

It seems to be the dogs doodahs. OcUK are selling them for nearly £1800, which I thought wasn't too bad and was seriously considering it.
I decided to have a look in the MM on the off chance and, lo and behold, there was a guy (with good trust) selling one almost identical (only difference is XP media Centre instead of XP Home) + some games + a G5 gaming mouse for £1300

I thought "bums, I don't have enough cash until I get paid a week on Thursday" but I decided to be cheeky and ask on the off chance if he'd be willing to wait. To my surprise, he said "no problem".

I have given him £300 as a deposit sort of idea and will transfer the other grand when I get paid and he will send the laptop to me for when I get back.

Here is the spec of my new baby:

# 2.16ghz CPU (DUAL CORE)
# 2 GIG DDR Memory (677MHZ)
# 100 GB Hard Drive
# 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 7900 Go GTX graphics card, PCI-Express x16
# DVDRW Drive
# Built in Wireless
# 17" True Life Screen
# Near enough 1 year warranty
# Windows Media Centre Edition

Games included in the deal:

Starship Troopers, Prince of Persia 2 Thrones and World of Warcraft as well as the mouse (I have a G5 on my gaming rig at home and it's ace).

I thought it was a bargain and can't wait to play stutter free games at work

Stan