Computer Porn

No, not THAT kind of computer porn. THIS kind of computer porn:

I could stare at it all day. Isn't it a thing of beauty & joy? Totally drool-worthy. It's an XPS M1530. I ordered mine from Dell today. (Using the employee purchase program. All you SCLD folks, take note--a 7% discount is nothing to sneeze at!) It should arrive sometime around the 13th. And when it does, I will hug it & squeeze it & call it George.

Just look at what it's got under that "Tuxedo Black" case:
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T8300 (2.4GHz/800Mhz FSB, 3 MB Cache)
4GB Shared Dual CHannel DDR2 SDRAM at 667 MHz
15.4" LCD
500 GB SATA Hard Drive
Slot Load Blu-ray Disc (BD/DVD/CD read/write)
85 WHR 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery
256 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600 M GT

Yep...that last bit's the video card. I foresee a lot of DOOM and WoW in my immediate future. Cue the blissful and contented sigh.

(Okay, in all honesty--the sigh is neither entirely blissful nor contented. Dell's operating system of choice for the XPS line--Vista. They don't even give you the option of paying through the nose and "downgrading" to XP anymore. Alas. Oh well...at least I'll be better able to empathize with our wireless customers that are using it.)