New laptop - suggestions?

From: Ketil Wendelbo Aanensen (ketil.w.aa.ugyldig_at_broadpark.no.ugyldig)
Date: 04/29/05 

Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:04:28 +0200

I'm going to get a new laptop, and have been looking at a Dell Inspiron
9300. These are the specs I'm thinking about:

Intel PentiumŪ M processor 750 (1.86 GHz, 2 MB L2 cache, 533 MHz FSB)
Screen: 17" UltraSharp WUXGA (1920 x 1200)
1024MB 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM (2x512)
Graphics card: ATI MOBILITY RADEON X300 128 MB
100GB (4200rpm) IDE hard drive
Fixed intern 8X DVD+/-RW Drv with Software
56.6k V.92 internal modem
IntelŪ wireless 2915 802,11a/b/g Mini PCI LAN-card

Any immediate issues I will encounter?
Does anyone else have experience with this one?

I can choose between the ATI graphics card, and a NVIDIA Geforce Go
6800 256 MB (which is considerably more expensive). I don't want to
spend too much money, so I'm thinking of going with the ATI one. Is
there Fedora support issues with any of these cards?
I can also choose between 17" WXGA+ (1440 x 900) or 17" WUXGA (1920 x
1200) med TrueLife. I'm not really sure about the difference it will
make, but it's currently set up with the most expensive one.

I'm going to use XP pro and FC3 (4 when it's released) on it.

Thank you for your thoughts!

- Ketil 

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