my new notebook!

I recently upgraded from my old notebook - an Acer AMD Turion TL-50. I got one Dell XPS, Centrino T7500, Dual Core, 2.2GHz, 4 MB L2 cache, 800MHz FSB, 3GB Ram, 160GB Sata HDD, a basic NVidia GeForce 8000 with 128 MB memory and other regular stuff.

1. Most of the brands come packaged with no scope for upgrading components, other than dell.
2. I have used AMD throughout and I abused my acer notebook (TL-50) and home PC to the max. so no complaints. But I couldnt find a notebook with TL-60 or above (within my budget), and AMD has been lagging in the notebook processor compared to Intel. Hence the decision to go with a Intel Centrino.
3. Most branded and packaged notebooks, came with hi end graphic and audio cards, and additional multimedia, of which I have no use. Only dell allowed me to adjust the configuration, and I cut down on video and audio cards.
4. Pricing: Any decent notebook with a T7300 or above came close to 100,000 INR or above. Like Mac, Ferrari, Fujitsu, HP, Lenovo and Sony included. Sony did have one with T7250 costing about 56K, but the notebook seemed like a tin-case.
5. India Models: Many of the brands will market the same model with downsized configuration and still equivalent to Euro prices. For example Acer 5920 Gemstone (yeah - the beige keyboard one), US model comes with T7300 processor but in India its T5450 processor. Same for some HP pavilion notebooks. This is blatant coning!
6. I could not wait for someone to come down from US to get me a notebook. I needed now.

In the end I found, none other than dell provided value for money and option for configurability. Upgraded, it cost me ~63K. It would have been only about 54/55K, if not for the excise duty on components, which for other brands are not applicable I guess. Anyway, I do not think I would have got such a config with other brands for less than 100K. Btw, whats the need for a 2MP webcam??