musings about tech & miscellanea
New Dell in the house
Just picked up a Dell Studio XPS 8100 desktop at Bestbuy for $1,080, which is $278 cheaper than Dell’s site with the exact same configuration. So with the money saved, now looking for a 24″ LCD monitor, which is really the sweet spot for 1920 x 1080 resolution; crisp high res without having the fonts too small as with 22″ monitors and smaller in this resolution.
This one’s replacing 1 of the 2 desktops I use across 3 LCD monitors for my daily use; one for Outlook and various widgets across 2 screens, and the new Dell for my main
BTW, the ATI Radeon HD5770 graphics card has 1GB of dedicated memory and is an excellent performer, especially with today’s multimedia needs (and yes, great for gaming whenever I get back into WoW).
Product Features
- Intel® Core™ i7-860 processor
Features an 8MB cache and 2.8GHz processor speed. - The all new 2010 Intel® Core™ i7 processor
Features 8-way processing for ultimate smart performance. Intel® Turbo Boost Technology automatically speeds up your processor when your PC needs extra performance. - 8GB DDR3 memory
For multitasking power, expandable to 16GB.
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