Hey guys im thinking of buying a laptop and I would like to know what you guys felt on these two
differnt brands specifially in laptops. It seems that in most amds you have ATIs and in most intels
you have Nvidia is this just coincedence? Also some one the other day was telling me that ATI is so
much better a 128 meg ati is the same as a 256 nvidia true? Any help on this would be great.
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Recently I have looking for a laptop to me, but I noticed that most of them were imported--so
utterly expensive, at least here in Brazil. Then I saw in the Internet that was possible to assemble
a laptop of several pieces, as is common with desktop computers--the so-called "barebones". However,
if is really possible, by some strange reason I don't see much of these "no-specific-brand"
laptops being sold (and in the case of desktop computers, there are lots of them). I keep wondering
if there's something that causes problems or malfunctioning in the assembling of...

Hello, my brother is goint to buy a laptop, he needs a IBM, because he use software that only runs
in Windows 98, and the only brand that give support for older OS is IBM. Also he needs a laptop
with serial port, So he has 2 alternatives, the IBM T40/41/42 (Centrino Based) but these ones
doesn't have serial port, And the IBM T30 (P-4-M 2.0ghz), any knows if this one is a good laptop
for work? (Including battery life) Thank's in advance.......

which one out of these companies makes the best laptops. i personaly like ibm, because they are
better than all of them, and they have the best laptop, the thinkpad. i think sony will come next.
which one do you prefer and why?...

Hello =) I'm a soon to be student who is on a short-ish budget, but I've been planning to
get myself a laptop before I'm off to university in September. I do quite a lot of work with
Photoshop working with graphics for websites and layouts and the like so I was thinking of getting a
high end computer. However the one's I've been looking at with the likes of... 512MB RAM,
60GB HD, 533Bus Speed etc. are in the range of 750-1000+ pounds and so I've been looking into
factory refurbished laptops which although still not cheap are nevertheless cheaper t...

ATI has finally released a new graphics card for laptops, the X800 XT. Serious gamers know that this
is a high-end video card. It's based on a 256-bit interface, and GDDR3 memory. They don't
say how much RAM it has. /tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' />
ATI's press release is here: http://apps.ati.com/ir/PressReleaseText.as...eleaseID=716886 ...