Considering I’d quit Reliance by the end of last month, and would no longer be in Mumbai, the geek in me began to pester me to move to a mobile computing solution. Granted, the N82 was doing more than well until then, but I’d need to have another machine. Brains racked, head banged, days were spent thinking. Even flirted with the thought of having a Desktop + Netbook combo, sonsidering I’d just upgraded the graphics card on my Desktop to an ATI Radeon HD2600, plus had purchased a licensed copy of Windows Vista. Not to mention the 22′ Samsung Syncmaster monitor. But, as luck would have it, SEV was upgrading his home PC in Mumbai, and quite a few gadgets changed hands leaving me free to buy a laptop, without worrying much about getting rid of the desktop.

The answer came in the form of a custom built Dell XPS M1530, after significant research and analysis about it. A 2.4Ghz Core2 duo with 3gigs of RAM, a 320GB 72000rpm HDD and an NVidia GeForce 8600GT graphics card, giving me a Windows Experience Index of 5.3. Incidentally, I’ve retained the 22′ monitor, which basically gives me two 1440X900 resolution screens stacked up against each other, to give one Windows Desktop that looks something like this.

Sheer computing bliss, this. I’ve been enjoying every single moment on this until now, and its bound to stay that way for a while.

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