Zeke Weeks

Zeke Weeks

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Zeke ordered a laptop.

I finally placed the order that I’ve been waiting to make for about 6 months…

I decided on the Dell E1405. I had been considering a MacBook, but the price for the same configuration as my Dell would have been like…. $700 more.

Here are some speccy’s:

  • Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz, 667MHz bus (I like how every time superfast new laptop processors come out, they automatically lose about 500MHz.)
  • 1GB RAM, 533MHz, 2x512MB
  • 100GB 5400RPM hard disk (I hear rumors that some dell notebook drives have only 2MB of cache instead of the near-standard 8MB…. hope that’s not true 😛 )
  • 14.1″ WXGA widescreen
  • All kinds of cool multimedia crap

I can’t run Mac OS on it, but I plan on killing the Dellified trialware-ridden version of Windoze that comes with it, and dual-booting Ubuntu Linux and the free version of XP Pro that I get through CSU.

And again I must wait for the evils of UPS to deliver it. I hate buying things online because I’m so impulsive, so I’ve been hitting the “reload” button daily on the Dell Order Status site since I ordered it. Looks like it shipped today, and will make an early arrival on the 18th, so I’m happy.

In other news, it looks like I’ll be leaving Arizona in 3 weeks.

July 14, 2006
Technophilia

5 responses to “Zeke ordered a laptop.”

  1. boo says:
    July 14, 2006 at 4:00 pm

    3 weeks as in which day…? because…you need to be here august 13th 😀 partay

  2. Adam says:
    July 14, 2006 at 9:55 pm

    Congrats.
    And hooray for dual-booting.

  3. Zeke says:
    July 15, 2006 at 4:15 pm

    Lo siento… I’m looking more at the fifth. 😦

  4. Emily W. says:
    July 15, 2006 at 8:25 pm

    Yay for Intel insides!

    I shall be sad that you will be gone.

  5. ZekeWeeks.com » Blog Archive » Skinned says:
    February 17, 2007 at 9:15 pm

    […] iPods. They have a fairly large collection of designs to choose from. I obviously ordered one for my Dell E1405, and it came custom cut to the exact size and lines of my model. If you look closely, you’ll […]

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