Just bought a Dell Inspiron 1501 Notebook

[TheA'sFatLeadoffMan]

Well I guess it's feasible for like 200 GB, but I think you'd have to be pretty unwilling to delete content to use up that kind of space. I mean if you don't like a movie enough to burn it onto a DVD how long will it truly remain on your HDD? And MP3's pretty small files, I mean certainly if you just kept every track you ever thought was relatively good on your HDD it would accumulate, but I dunno, I guess I've just always been someone who doesn't keep unused or rarely used content on my HDD long. The idea of 500 GB or a Terabyte to me just seems like you just don't like to let go of things, of course though it's different if your using protools, video editting, and such like I said, if you're creating some sort of content for yourself you will certainly find ways to use it.

But then again maybe if I was on a college campus getting a T1 line I might be changing my tune...

[Tavish]

I'm with you Fatman. I don't think I've ever really come close to filling up my 40 GB drive and that is with dual-booting. I guess that's the beauty of dealing with text files 95% of the time.

[theclefe]

I only have a 30GB Hard Drive thinking I would never fill it, and I greatly regret the decision. I must have deleted or transfered at least 90GB of content and programs since I got this laptop. (I have a lot of photos... none of Pat Burrell though )

On a side question. If I wanted to replace the hard drive on my laptop, would I need someone to reinstall my windows and programs, or can it be mirrored on a new drive without much hassle?

[TheA'sFatLeadoffMan]

Sub question for me as well:

How difficult is it to replace a notebook graphics card generally?

[Melo255]

I just ordered my new Dell Inspiron 531 (Desktop) 3 days ago. I've always been happy with Dell and I'll keep buying from them as long as they keep performing well. I thought about posting here then to ask what some of you thought about it but then I thought better of opening a whole thread just to ask about my comp. Now that someone else has done it though I have no qualms about piggybacking

My specs:

Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 5600+ (2.8GHz, 2000MHz FSB, and a 2MB L2 cache)
2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz
320GB Serial ATA Hard Drive 7200RPM
256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT-DDR3 2-DIMM
20 inch Widescreen Digital Flat Panel
16x DVD+/-RW Drive
Bluetooth Wireless Media Hub 13-1 Media Reader w/Bluetooth 2.0 EDR
802.11b/g wireless PCI card

With the $300/$310 off sale they have right now on the Inspiron 531/530 series it's a pretty darn good deal. I'm going to upgrade the memory to 4GB through crucial.com and in around half a year upgrade the video card.

[Yoda]

Dells are horrible. They'll last about two years. Vista is horrible also.

[Boyakasha]

Sub question for me as well:

How difficult is it to replace a notebook graphics card generally?

Basically, you can't. They say when buying a notebook you should look at the screen and the graphics card first because those are the two things you can't easily change/upgrade.

[Snakes Gould]

I only have a 30GB Hard Drive thinking I would never fill it, and I greatly regret the decision. I must have deleted or transfered at least 90GB of content and programs since I got this laptop. (I have a lot of photos... none of Pat Burrell though )

all my hard work of building up a reputation and this is what im going to be remembered for forever!

[TheA'sFatLeadoffMan]

I only have a 30GB Hard Drive thinking I would never fill it, and I greatly regret the decision. I must have deleted or transfered at least 90GB of content and programs since I got this laptop. (I have a lot of photos... none of Pat Burrell though )

all my hard work of building up a reputation and this is what im going to be remembered for forever!

Well to get your hands on such a provocative picture of a ball player on your favorite team will do that...

[Snakes Gould]

I only have a 30GB Hard Drive thinking I would never fill it, and I greatly regret the decision. I must have deleted or transfered at least 90GB of content and programs since I got this laptop. (I have a lot of photos... none of Pat Burrell though )

all my hard work of building up a reputation and this is what im going to be remembered for forever!

Well to get your hands on such a provocative picture of a ball player on your favorite team will do that...

all you have to do is google pat burrell and click images..i didnt look for it i promise !