I have the oppurtunity to experiment with another brand new out-of-the-box Dell laptop.

It is a Vostro 1520 (entry level business class notebook) with a Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 3Gb RAM running Windows 7 Professional.

I am going to use Microsoft Office Professional 2010 Beta and Microsoft Security Essentials and see how this turns out. This lowers the TCO for the user (at least temporarily) and gets it up and running faster.

I will publish the results later in the year.