Campus Convenience: The Inspiron700m

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An excellent back to college computer from Dell. The Inspiron 700m, is light enough to carry around campus, has solid battery life, and is competitively priced.

Dude,college students have it made. Besides the lax schedule of wakingup at 11 a.m. and partying until 3 a.m., the dorm-room parties,and the freedom not to cut their hair or shave their legs forwhole months at a time, college students also can get theirpadres to buy them a laptop for school. Man, talk about unfair.Sure, students say they need notebooks to write papers forcourses and take notes during lectures, and wireless connectivitywill help them e-mail their professors and keep in touch withtheir study groups. But who they kidding?!

Nevertheless, buying a laptop for school is a big deal. Collegestudents, whether they're actually doing work or loading their iPod, need alaptop that is light enough to lug around campus, but stackedwith features like wireless access, fast speeds, and lots ofbattery life. One such model is the Dell Inspiron 700m.
The 700m isn't the highest powered laptop, but students can waituntil they're on their future employer's dime to get a businessnotebook. The 700m is smallish ultraportable, with a crowdedkeyboard and a 12.1-inch LCD screen. It doesn't have much storagespace with its 40GB hard drive, especially if kids have thetypical ten-thousand-MP3 music collection. And the 700m'swireless, Centrino chipset (with either a Pentium M 725 or M 755)is an older variety. But that being said, it still can suit theneeds of your typical student.

This Inspirononly weighs 4 pounds, so even a lithe cheerleader can haul thisaround on her shoulder. Or for some extra life (for five and halfhours total), add another extra half pound worth of eight-cellbatteries.

And, dude, you're getting a Dell with a modicum of ports anddrives, including two USB ports, FireWire, SD slot, and S-Videoport, and a DVD read-write drive. All in all, it's not a badlittle package at about $1,199 direct, considering what a studentwill probably use it for (word processing, e-mailing, Websurfing, IMing). And if mom and dad are footing the bill, nocollege student can complain.

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