I was looking for a good deal for few days now that my friend recommended yet expired, and and now I just did … and now I’m an owner of a Inspiron 1501. And it's about time I say.

So my old system was…
PCG-FX210
AMD 800Mhz
256Ram PC100.
12Giger
Some unknown POS 8mb ati card.
DVD Drive.


My new system (753$ final price after taxes and everything)
Inspiron 1501
AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TL-50
LCD panel 15.4 inch Wide Screen XGA Display with TrueLife™
1GB DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz, 2 Dimm
ATI RADEON® Xpress1150 256MB HyperMemory™ (Integrated)
60GB Hard Drive
Combo/DVD+RW Drives 8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R Wireless 1390 802.11g Mini Card (54Mbps)
Primary Battery 53 WHr 6-cell Lithium Ion
Primary Battery Warranty and Service 1Yr Ltd Warranty and Mail-In Service

nice laptop a huge improvement over your old pc
but if you have bought it with the idea of playing the latest games you have made a huge mistake

It's not for latest games. Maybe for Dangerous Waters or Combat Mission...

Actually here's a question for the know-tech-stuff crowd...

What are the specs for ATI Xpress1150 256mb? Google is not helping here...

look at what a x1900xt scores and divide by 10

my guess would be
directx 9.0b sm2.0
4 pipelines
4 pixel shaders
2 vertex shaders

Is there equivalent in desktop world?

And thanks for specs…

ATI X300

Basically the bottom of the range ATI GPU. You should be fine for DW, Combat Mission and older games.....anything that doesn't require lots of 3D basically.

That's horrible! .....but that's ok. I cant spend anything more on more umpfh....

I finally got it. It’s very light and silently quite. It’s definitely not a gamer system, but it does run DW without any problems. 3DMark05 default setting test gave me 697 points. Score is laughable compare to my main system score of 4794, but I didn’t get it for gaming. One future that I love is that I can attach second monitor to it and it will act as extension to desktop. That means I can watch a movie on a second monitor and surf net on main. Very cool.