New PC - 2009

It's been a long time I'm surviving with the same PC at home. May be it's time to buy a new one...

Requirements

• Main requirement: silence!
• Form-factor: Laptop would be a nice-to have. Would free some space on the desk, reduce cable clutter. But more expensive
  • On battery time is secondary. I'll mainly use it as a desktop anyway
• Resolution: laptop, min. 1440x9000, ideally 1920x1200. Desktop, min 1920x1200 mandatory.
• Ports: IEEE 1394 interface mandatory to acquire DV Video from digital handycam
• OS: PC must be Linux compatible. Let's get a Windows license for ease. Windows 7 english 64-bit Professional minimum.
  • Ultimate + Media center would be nice-to-have
• Graphic cards:
  • NVidia used to have good Linux compatibility, but I heard many troubles with these cards nowadays.
  • Intel' GMA series work perfectly well on my DELL E6500 with Lucid 10.04.
• Bluetooth
• Wifi 802.11 n

DELL

Laptop - Gamer - Alienware M17x

• 2400 € all taxes incl.
• Intel C2D T9800 2,93GHz
• NVidia GeForce GTX 260M GDDR3 1GB
• WUXGA 1920x1200
• 2x2GB RAM
• HDD 500GB
• DVD+/-RW
• Windows 7 Pro 64-bit English
• No AV, no MS SW.

Laptop - Pro - Latitude Z600

• (-) Only windows 7 32-bit version - need to ask 64-bit version.
• (-) Keyboard AZERTY French - need to ask Belgium version.
• (-) No NVidia graphic card. Intel GMA 4500MHD
• (-) No IEEE 1394 ports, no HDMI port (but DisplayPort)
• Strangely, the best price is got by personalising config BEBSDONL-L11Z6003.
• 2437 € HT
• Intel C2D SU9600 1.60GHz
• 4GB DDR3
• 256MB SSD

Laptop - Pro - Latitude E6500

• 1545€ HT
• Intel C2D P9700 2.80GHz
• Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate - English
• 15.4in screen 1440x900
• NVidia Quadro NVS 160M, 256MB
• 4GB DDR2
• 250GB HDD