<p>I have a Dell 700m Inspiron laptop. It’s 3 years old. It’s storage is nearly full, its getting slow. I have compressed and defrag’d and check regularly for spywear/adware etc. I think I am just going to need a new one. It did not have enough RAM to begin with and that is a big part of the problem.</p>
<p>My current laptop is a 12 inch, it is light and I LOVE it. I thought the small size would bother my eyes, but I throw on a pair of reading glasses and I am fine. I use it at home and work. At work I just plug it into my network. At home it is all I use. It was great taking it on a trip this past summer. </p>
<p>I am thinking about replacing it with the new Dell 8 inch model. It’s only 399 but will probably be 499 equiped with what I want. The idea I can carry it in a big purse is a real pluse. But I am worried that the size is maybe too small. I got my D a Macbook 13 inch aor college and she loves it, but I think its too expensive for what I need. </p>
<p>Anyone use the new 8 inch Dell yet? I will see what the Macbocks will be going for on Black Friday, but I sure like the size/portability of that 8 inch Dell. Thanks</p>
<p>The new netbooks use Intel Atom processors and the performance of these may not be up to your expectations. Your system shipped with a 1.6 Ghz Intel Dothan processor as standard (you may have purchased an upgrade) which is probably decent for something this light. You can upgrade the memory to 1 GB of RAM max for $49.99:</p>
<p>It appears that it is easy to replace many of the parts on this computer. </p>
<p>A quick look on newegg shows that you can get a 250 GB replacement drive (Western Digital) for $79.99 + shipping. I’m assuming that you have an ATA drive given when you bought the system. SATA laptop drives are available at up to 500 GB.</p>
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<p>I’d love to get one of the new MacBooks but I’ve already purchased three MacBook Pros and a Dell XPS M1330 in the last 18 months. There are only four in the household so justifying a new system is pretty hard.</p>
<p>College senior S bought a different brand of the 8" laptop earlier this fall. Sorry, can’t think of brand, but other than screen is too small to use “all day”, he loves the light weight and smaller size. He takes the smaller laptop to classes and leaves his dell inspiron in his room.</p>
<p>I am hoping he brings the new laptop home tomorrow, but doubt it as he will really want the dell for the 4 days at home.</p>
<p>Thanks eagle. I have not had good experience taking a laptop and replacing alot of parts. Last time I did that, I swore I would never do it again, as it did not work out the way I planned, and with what I spent I could have had a new computer. </p>
<p>Not a techie so I’ll ask a related question. My sister was looking at a no name little laptop last week for $299. The thing was 512MB. I convinced her that it wouldn’t run streaming video (think downloading TV shows) well. I also didn’t like the fact that it was no name and if she had problems she was pretty well stuck. Of course, it was reviewed in some women’s magazine so now everyone thinks it is great.
Is the Dell powerful enough to run video without hitches?</p>
<p>sunnyflorida-such a good episode! Especially because it had Scott Patterson who played Luke on Gilmore girls, who frankly shouldn’t even warrent a debate about being sponge-worthy or not, it seems obvious to me (he’s so attractive!).</p>
<p>BTW, sorry that didn’t help you at all! I know nothing about computers, although if it comes to being cheap enough, I LOVE my Macbook. Definitely a good investment.</p>
<p>I’ve seen these at Target - they sell at $299 and $399. They run Linux which is generally far more efficient than Windows so they may be okay with less memory. If you can buy them and try them out with a no-cost return policy, then that might be a painless way to try one out. Using Unix-based operating systems is different if you’ve only known Windows.</p>
and that is a big part of the problem.</p>
