Yesterday I received my new laptop.  It's a new Dell Inspiron 8600.  I must say that so far I am impressed.  It's a blazing Pentium M 755 (2.0 Ghz) with 2GB of RAM.  With the WUXGA (1920x1200 res), 60 GB 7200 RPM hard drive, and the DVD+R/RW I am loving it!  I'm still in the process of setting it up, but I'm very excited.

As a matter of habit, the first thing I do when I get a new computer (PC or otherwise) is blow away the OS (archiving drivers of course) and install anew.  At first I wanted to use Windows Server 2003.  It installed flawlessly; that is, until I got to the video driver.  The video driver installed ok but upon reboot it incessantly blue screened.  It was frustrating to not find a Win2k3-compatible video driver on the Dell site.  I was forced to fall back to Windows XP, which I enjoy as well, but I would have preferred Win2k3...oh well...no worries.