I am one of those wackos that likes being in the same room as my family. When I decide to write an article for a blog or surf the net, I have to isolate myself in my den. I finally decided to stop being cheap and buy myself a laptop.

I went to the Dell site and put together a laptop. This was going to be a desktop replacement so one of my my criteria was that the laptop should handle some of my games. I ended up putting together an Inspiron E1705. I upgraded the processor to the 2Ghz Intel dual core, the memory to the max of 2 Gigs of RAM and the video card to the 256 meg video card. I also made the unfortunate decision of putting Windows Vista on the laptop.

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So I was walking through Wal-Mart the other day and saw the big stack of Dell computers. I had completely forgotten about Dell offering their computers through Wal-Mart. I have a few thoughts on this I’d like to share.

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