Okay, it's time to trash the old notebook. A whopping 380 mhz, the DVD drive died last time I used it and I checked the replacement part for it and it's $488.00, just for the part ... I get to take everything apart.

So, problem solved, sell on EBay for parts

But I'm now looking at a new one and I"ll probabaly go with a Dell that I'll pair up with a expansion dock to double as the home machine as well..

Here's what I'm looking at:

Catalog Number Description Product Code SKU
Latitude C840: Mobile Pentium® 4 Processor,2.4Ghz-M 15.0 UltraSharp™ UXGA C240 [221-2071]
Memory: 512MB SDRAM for the price of 256MB! (mail-in rebate not available) 512MZ [461-4714]
Video Memory: Nvidia® GeForce4 440 GoTM card with 64 MB DDR video memory 64VM [320-0231]
Hard Drive: 40GB Hard Drive, 9.5MM, 5400RPM 405400 [340-3964]
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Service Pack 1¹² XPHSP1 [420-2018]
Fixed Optical Device Options: Internal 8-24-10-24X SWDVD/CDRW Combo I24CMBO [313-1175]
Microsoft® Office: Dell Latitude Notebook NOMSBE [461-8702]
Module Bay Devices: 24X max/10X min CD-ROM Drive CD24 [313-0249]
Hardware Support Services: 3Yr Mail-In Service T3YRR [950-8540][950-8542]
File Systems: NTFS,FILE SYSTEM,WIN NT/2K/XP NTFS [420-0153]


Anyone have a Latitude 840??? Inspiron with the new large screen doesn't offer two optical drives, and we like to burn a little ...

How 'bout the docking stations for this one (slightly more than the std. replicator)??

Thanks for any help!! And no, Parker, no apples