<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by cordelli:
New Notebooks from Dell are easily available for $700 or so on their site, with a DVD drive, XP, 256, etc. I wouldn't even consider refurbished from somebody else if I could get brand new, with a new warantee
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Having worked with Dell laptops, I would consider almost anyone else's refurbished before I bought a Dell, even a new one ... but that's just me.