[prisoner6]

Looking to purchase from the Dell Outlet, and I have a few small questions.

1. Does the Serial/Build Number tell you anything? They don't seem to be sequential in any way, so is there a clue in there regarding the age of the computer? Features? Anything?

2. Does haveing Bluetooth in the computer influence performance or storage space appreciably? I don't need it now, but can't rule out future uses, but don't want it slowing me down.

3. How will peformance of the Atom with 1GB RAM compare against my 4 year old Gateway laptop with Celeron M processor and 512 MB of RAM?

[WolfKeeper]

1. The Dell service tag (seven characters, numbers and letters) is the unit's serial number. You can look up warranty info and original build inventory at support.dell.com. They are somewhat sequential, if you buy large numbers of units you can see a pattern, but there's no simple way to just look at a tag and figure out it's age.

2. Not appreciably. If you think there's a chance you'll need it, get it integrated.

3. Depending on the speed of the Celeron M, it should outperform the Atom. Additional RAM will obviously help he Atom though.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/int ... 947-9.html

[prisoner6]

The Celeron M is 1.40 GHz and 488 MB of RAM.