I got this laptop about 6 months ago, now I need to upgrade again  



Yet again Microsoft made me want to put a fist through my TFT screen 

Yeah, when I bought it I didnt want anything too powerful, I mainly use it for internet, photoshoping, and low-end games like half-life... It was exactly what I wanted (P4's suck too much juice), minus the 64MB RAM but I even upgraded that to 1024. It does everything I want it to with really good speed, I dont overlaod it too much it rarely even lags heavily using photoshop CS2, It just annoyed me becuase I wanted to download the new NFS demo and it wouldnt let me, stupid microsoft I'm installing MAC OS X 

hehe indeed , the important thing is if you can run everything fine that you need it for, why upgrade

My Laptop was one the fastest of it's time, it has a Pentium4 -E HT 3400Mhz with 1MB L2, 800Mhz FSB, 2x 512MB Infineon PC-3200 CAS2 in Dual DDR mode the Rare and Elusive ATi M18 Mobillity Radeon 9800 with 256Bit 256MB 2.5ns DDRII

it's core the ATI R420 with 8 pipes and 4 Vertex Shader Units that made me choose this Dell Inspiron 9100 X-treme, because there was no other vendor with such a powerfull graphics chip, there were Mobile A64's with ATi M11's only they don't have the R420 as core and only have 4 pipes and 2 vertex units and only 128 Bit DDR1 hehe too slow for FS 2004 @ max quallity @ 1280 x 800 x32  and Call Of Duty2, FarCry and so on I wanted something for the real heavy stuff and normally I rather go for A64 Mobile with ATi M18 but that just wasn't there so I went for this Dell and like I said it runs everything I want it to, so there is no need to upgrade

here it's name & specs:

YODA

Dell Inspiron 9100 X-treme'
Intel Pentium4 HT 3400Mhz Prescott  LGA478 1MB L2 800Mhz FSB 
Intel i864PE Dual Channel DDR 400 mobo
4.1 onboard AC97's sound card + Internal Subwoofer
10/100MBit Lan
11/54MBit WLAN
2x  512MB PC-3200 DDR 400 Infineon in Dual DDR mode
ATi M18 Mobillity Radeon 9800 AGP 256MB 256Bit DDRII Hynx 2.5ns 8)
15,4" WUXGA TFT
Max Reso & Refresh: 1920 x 1200 x 32 @ 60Herz
Fujitsu 2,5" 100GB ATA100 4200 rpm HDD 2Mb Cache
Logitech Cordless MouseMan Optical
Color's : Dell Black/Venice Blue and Chrome
Dell 150W External PSU

The Dell Inspiron 9100 X-treme was a limited choice with the ATi M18 it was a special offer normally the M18 was only sold in the Dell Inspiron 9100 XPS systems of that time anyways I choose ATi for Laptops  always the best Image Quallity and best performance, dunno what's in petto now hehe, My Laptop is only 10 mounths old, no need to upgrade yet not within a longshot hehe.

here's my Laptop btw

lol well I never have problems with it hehe to be honest I know lot's of people that use Dell Laptops they are known to be the best ones out there, the Dell Inspiron series have scored well here

even the local banks use them and so on, it's the best system I've had in years, it never crashes, really for 2400 Euro's that should be worth it also

hmm maybe you got the the bad ones maybe, my experience with Dell and that of my friends and ex-collegues is suppurb I suppose your experience was not such on the bright side, I mean it does not mean that Dell is bad or so hehe oh well I know how that feels, I had the same with 3dfx also with a Voodoo5 5500 AGP it was DOA and I payed lot's for it but never got my money back for it and so on.

anyways that's a long big story hehe.

anyways the MR9800 rocks in games

well maybe you have problems maintaning them  ???

I have no problems with them what so ever please don't over react lol

You told the end user that

Wow! I would be fired if I did that

hmm sh*t happens,  the thing is that when just someone has one to 5 bad experiences with a brand they say the brand is very bad, those parts could of been manufacture faults that can happen with every brand, Dell Computers still have one of the best laptop markets around togeather with Alienware, Voodoo extreme and so on.

The most companies use either Dell, HP or IBM and the most sold parts are Dell parts here in this part of The Netherlands and Dell has a very good rep here, maybe the Americans are doing something wrong , I suppose poeple make mistakes everywhere lol.

To me Dell Laptops PWN, I simply never had probs with mine and neither do me mates .