logomancer | It is done.

Bought the laptop today. It's a Dell Inspiron 5100. Here are its specs:

15" XGA screen
Pentium 4 2.4 GHz Processor
32 MB ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 video card
512 MB DDR RAM
40 GB Hard Drive
24x CD-RW/8x DVD-ROM Combo Drive
56K Modem + 10/100 Ethernet NIC
Integrated 802.11b/g Wireless NIC
Windows XP Home
Bunch of superfluous software that I had forced on me (productivity package, photo album, etc.)
1 year of mail-in tech support
Total Price: $1239.00 (includes tax and shipping)

So, I believe I managed to find a decent deal. I'm going to replace XP Home with 2000 or XP Pro when I get back to Tech. It'll take about 2-3 weeks to get here so I should have it before I have to move out.

This thing's going to come in very handy in the near future. It'll allow me to get out of the dorm more often. Something I missed last spring when I was busy trying to finish my final project. I'm also thinking about doing something with this at SGA meetings, if I'm picked as VTSFFC rep -- basically, in addition to whatever oral/written report I'm obliged to give, a recording of SGA meetings. I figure an hour's worth of meeting can fit into a 10 MB Speex file -- no problem for broadband users. This would allow people to hear everything I'm hearing. Lemme know what you think of this idea!