The time has come the Latitude X300 is going into semi retirement

It has been the best laptop I ever used (to date).

Things have changed since the X300 was state of the art.

Latitude X300 12.1″ 1024×768 Vrs M1210 12.1″ Widescreen 1280×800

The screen resolution of the X300 is now becoming limiting. Connected to an external monitor it can support higher resolutions but natively 1024×768 is old school.

X300 Pentium M 1.2Ghz Vrs M1210 Core Duo 2.0Ghz

I havent heard a bad thing about Core Duo, apart the fact its not Core Duo 2 (even faster). The pentium M in the X300 can still cope with a 720p video playback so its no slouch, but I multitask a lot so having Core Duo is going to mean a lot to me.

X300 640mb Vrs M1210 1gb

The X300 shipped with the 640mb at the time and was and is pretty generious. Having 1gb just covers my furutre Vista/Office needs.

X300 Hard Disk 40gb Vrs M1210 100gb

I repeat you can never, ever have enough storage, so when buying a laptop get as much as you can afford.

X300 Optical DVD/CDRW Vrs DVD+RW

Yadda Yadda, It can burn DVD’s So what.

X300 Onboard - Intel Vrs M1210 Nvidia 256mb GeForce 7400

I am taking a gamble that the GeForce 7400 will be able to run Windows Vista Aero. It meets the specs for a screen running at 1280×800 i.e. 64mb video ram. But we will have to see.

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