[Eug-lug] more on xmas laptops

[dooger watts]

Y'all prob'ly know this already, but I just found something encouraging, 
with the dell laptop I'm zeroing in on.  (It's the Inspiron 640m).  The 
vanilla dual core is $779, and I've got one of those "exclusive" 
mailed-out coupons that drops it to 679--but, when you click on 
shipping, it's another 69 bux.

Decided to call them and mention that, for that extra price, I could get 
a pretty much identical HP laptop--but with the media center version of 
XP, rather than their homeboy whitebread version--and HP would ship to 
me for free.

The dell kat immediately wiped out the shipping charge.  (Mentioning HP 
at Dell must be like pharting in church).