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Last week on Monday, I ordered my new notebook at the Dell website. From beginning on, they clearly announced (in red, bold font), that the delivery for the notebook I wanted would take around 3 weeks. But the notebook seemed so awesome to me, I ordered it.

They processed assembling my (customized) notebook very fast and 3 days later, they sent my notebook via the delivery service UPS. I followed my package every day fanatically. And then finally, it arrived.

The wrapping was clean and stable. When I opened the package, the first thing I noticed immediately: Everything is very elegant and clean. The notebook was in a soft elegant microfibre-bag.

I unpacked it and I finally could hold the piece of elegant technology in my hands. The notebook is very elegant and when I turned it on, the detailness of Dell impressed me again and again. From keyboard backlight over real leather to the brilliant surface.

The notebook I ordered is a Dell Studio XPS 1340. Some basic data about the notebook here:

• CPU: Intel® Core™2 Duo-Prozessor P8600 (2,40 GHz, 1.066 MHz, 3 MB)
• RAM: 4GB Dual-Channel DDR3 SDRAM
• Harddrive: 250GB SATA (@ 7200RPM)
• Display: 13,3-Zoll WXGA White-LED-Display (1.280 x 800)
• Graphic adapter: NVIDIA® 9500m
• Built-in 2.0MPix webcam
• eSATA/USB port
• HDMI port
• Firewire port
• …

My first impression of this notebook is very good! Dell delivered a face-recognition software which impressed me. Unfortunately, I was not able to install my Windows Vista Professional copy on the notebook because a driver is missing. I believe reason for this is Service Pack 1. Anyway, I want to use Ubuntu as my main OS. But that I have to do tomorrow, because the ISO is downloading very slow!