Dell™ Inspiron M501R

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Thinking of Buying ---Dell™ Inspiron M501R--
AMD Phenom™ II Triple-Core Mobile Processor N850 (2.2GHz, 1.5M, 3.6GT/s)
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 550v 1GB
FreeDOS OS with CD kit
15.6 Widescreen HD WLED Glossy Display with TrueLife™
3GB (1 X 1GB + 1 X 2GB) 2 DIMM DDR3 1333Mhz

price: 32800

can anyone suggest about this laptop, how is it's performance , heating issues and other issues etc.
or anything better than this

This is cheapest with graphics card i could find :-?

1. it gets hot
2. battery performance is abysmal.

why don't you wait for Sandy Bridge core i3 and i5 processors based laptops? They should come out by mid-February.

new cores i guess will be really over prized

is there any other cheap laptop with discrete graphics and decent processor? battery performance is not much issue.. but overheating is as i know my friends both had dell insprion and studio both of their motherboards were gone because of overheating in 1.5 years now dell people are asking 18K for them its too much...

No
the price difference isnt dat steep
it is almost same as currnt i series processors
price diff may b of jst 10 to 15 $
in sum processor
look d other side of it
the performance wil b almost 50%
better dan currnt processors
it wud b foolish from ur side to invest on current i series processors
but it depends on u
if u can wait until mid feb

i wud say only a month is remainin
wait for it