Mr Zoidberg

Sep 27 2005, 01:38 AM

QUOTE(hulunes @ Sep 25 2005, 07:27 AM)

acer travelmate series is really good,e.g. 4102cli with very coool performance.it owns 1.73MHZ cpu(sonoma) 40G HDD 15.4"LCD 512Ram...approximate price is 1,000 us$.

certainly i still like my neat laptop 13.3"TFT LCD,ease much!

I'm using that exact brand right now to respond to your post. It is a magnificent laptop, but your price is off.

I got this one for only $550, after rebates. Circuit City sold it to me. I haven't had a single problem with it, so far. Very durable...I left it in my car for a few days, and I live in Georgia...where the in-car temperature can be over 130 degrees...enough to fry any laptop in my experience.

But this one is working just fine. =P

It's a bit on the heavy side (7-10 pounds), but the price was enough to make me not care. Better then waiting to buy a $2800 Vaio.

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frederick.ding

Oct 3 2005, 06:12 AM

QUOTE(gotenx @ Sep 24 2005, 11:03 PM)

If I were you, I'd get the Dell Inspiron 700m or Dell Inspiron 6000(d). They are pretty lightwieght and cheap and they also are very powerful. If you don't care about money and wieght, get the Dell Inspiron XPS, one of the most powerful notebooks around.

PS - I hate Dell... but they do have the best laptops

I personally know at least four people who have bought Dell products that overheated way too often. On the web, it says that as many as 1000 Dell SmartStep notebooks have been recalled due to complaints about overheating.

Also, if I were you, I'd get one of them new-fangled tablet PC's. They're lightweight, thin (unless you dock it), and most can be used with a stylus like a PDA. Most tablet PC's have advanced features but many models are way too featureless, since they have almost no ports for external monitor, parallel connection to printer, etc.

Anyways, I'd recommend either Hewlett Packard or eMachines, because I don't know if some of the better brands are available where you live.

-Frederick Ding

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frederick.ding

Oct 3 2005, 06:16 AM

QUOTE(liauce @ Sep 25 2005, 06:59 AM)

...mine's about 4 plus hours on the 8 cell Lit - ion battery, So I was extremely suprised to here that Sony Vaio has a battery life of 7.5 hours! how do they do that?

Well, nobody could really tell you because it's probably a company secret or some proprietary mechanism. Also, Dell notebooks consume lots of energy due to their inefficient cooling.

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FLaKes

Nov 26 2005, 10:12 PM

I bought a refurb hp zd7000 about 6 months ago and it is awesome. I have not had any heat issues with it or problems with photoshop. It is a pentium 4 3.06 ht, 512 ram, 17.1 wide screen, +/-dvd burner, 80gb (5400 =(), with tv interface all for 1249 or something like that. I use it for music and watching dvds, and for that price it was really good. The battery lasts about 1 hour and 30 minutes =( just barely enough for watching some dvds.

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JC05

Nov 26 2005, 03:53 AM

I think any dell computer is good. I have a dimention 3000 and it works great. but if your not on a tight buget then you should get at least 80 GB of HD and 512 MB Ram. It works much better with game's if you have 512.

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Sirius

Nov 19 2005, 08:54 PM

I have a

Dell Inspiron 6000
Pentium M 1.86 GHz
1GB Ram (Bought it with 512mb bought the other stick later, much cheaper...)
Ati Radeon x300 128mb graphics card
70GB HD (~5200rpm)
~15 Inch Widescreen

I got it for around a total price of ~$1600, was living in the US at that time...

I think Dell laptops are pretty overprices...They were offering a sale and I also got a coupon from couponmountain.com (Great Dell coupons btw) So I saved a few hundred dollars....

I'm pretty happy with it...The "Enter" key got loose in about the first week I bought it...Support told me a way to fix it and if it wouldnt fix they would replace it for free....Well, after a hour of patience it was fixed--Still, I think they have good support...Well, I would imagine seeing that they charge a lot for their laptops...

My Dell doesn't get too hot... (Compared to Apple Powerbook 12")...Which isn't made as a laptop for guys seeing how hot it gets--

I'd suggest an Asus

And, If you get a laptop with Penitum 4, it's gonna get very hot--if you do anyway, make sure it has great cooling

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brainless

Nov 19 2005, 02:19 PM

wow ... nice thing this Dell XPS but somewhen next week there'll be an Acer Aspire 3003 LCI for sale at atelco and I suppose I'll get me that one:

AMD Sempron 3000+-CPU; 512MB RAM; 80GB HDD; WLAN up to 54MBit/sec; Dual Layer DVD+/-RW; 15,4" TFT at 888 Euros...

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Cesto Ode

Oct 13 2005, 04:46 PM

Dell XPS is amazing!
One of the most powerful gaming laptops they have ever done, and it can run ANY game
but it would set you back about £2000+

they offer a lot of adons as well upto 500GB HD

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