Three Years ago to the month I ordered my last notebook, a Dell Inspiron 510m.
At the time I decided to be generous as far as hardware goes and tried to get
good and plentiful components installed in the machine. A Pentium with 1.7 GHZ
and 768 MB of RAM with a 60 GB hard disk, WiFi and a few more bells and
whistles. Since I’m on the road a lot, I’ve been a bit lavish on components I
ordered in the machine I’m waiting for: a Dell Latitude D830 with a 2 GHZ
Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB of RAM a 120 GB hard disk, WiFi as well as a built-in
3G card and all the usual other stuff, including 3 years of international
NBD support and Complete Care, just in case I’m a Complete Idiot™ and drop
it into a pool somewhere. What is the point in mentioning this?
Rounded off to the nearest ten Euro, both machines cost exactly the same.
Moore’s Law applied?