Ok, here's the deal. My girlfriend's little brother is going to Oregon State engineering school in the fall. His parents bought him a sweet dell laptop, but it has only a forty gig hard drive. They decided to return it to get a different model and a larger hard drive. Dell has this weird policy where they offer you cash if you keep your computer as it is instead of returning it. So, dell gave them 250 bucks to keep this laptop, but they decided to buy a new one anyway.
The price is $1835.

It is a Dell Latitude D820
Intel Core Duo T2300E, 1.67 MHz
15.4" Widescreen WXGA
512 MB NVidia Quadro NVS 120M Turbocache
2.0 GB DDR2-667 SDRAM, 2 DIMMS
40 GB 5400 RPM HD
8X DVD +/- RW
Dell Wireless 8011.2 –G
Dell Bluetooth
Windows XP Pro SP2
Microsoft Office 2003

Hey, I'll keep this in mind as I look for a desktop replacement in the next month or so. Looks exactly like what I want.

BTW, did you tell him to search out the Formula team? They're on the bottom floor of Rogers Hall. Regardless of Major they can use him, there was a lot of turnover this past year and lots of room for freshman to be involved.

Edit: After looking at the specs a bit, I realized that the Quadro NVS is a 2D graphics card not meant for CAD applications. Not exactly useful for an engineer.

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That's crazy. I hadn't looked into it much. This laptop was suggested by the Oregon state engineering department, and with Quadro in the name, i just figured it was a workstation graphics card. Why would anyone make a 512 MB non-3D graphics card?

I've been pushing him towards formula. I'm sure he'll check it out.