Hmmm alienware are good, but were you looking at the sentia? The graphics chip on that is "Intel® GMA 950 Extreme Graphics" as faras I know it's not a great card/chip... Yt it has got a 7.1 channel audio card... (odd, considering the graphics!) I may be wrong about that GFX card being bad, but alienware gets quite pricey once you customise it to how you like I made a £5000 dream laptop, from getting carried away!

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i need at least 64mb with support for hardware transformation and lighting video card, and a sound card...and a 1.4GHz processor, if i can. That would be able to play my newest game i have (aoe 3) and diablo2 probably has worse requirements, considering i can play diablo 2 on my desktop but not aoe, so if that is better, its good enough lol. I don't plan on buying many new computer games, its just for what i have.

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The computer looks fine but again your going to be paying over $1000 for it because most likely you were going to down size the operating system to XP instead of Vista Basic, which mind you is a bad OS version to begin with and so you would be paying $949 to either go with XP Media Center or vista Home Premium. But I would say shop around a bit more before making a solid purchase, check out gateway computers, compaq computers, HP computers, and sony computers. I would still look at www.newegg.com because they seem to have hte better deals with a the same hook up.

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I'd recommend you save up for more of a computer then you're currently apparently budgeted for. Personally, even if I were a "windoz" person I wouldn't discount the Mac product line. They consistently put only the best hardware in their computers which makes them seem more expensive, but after seeing what they include with the software and everything added up, I think you'll see the value. As an added bonus, you can install Wondoz on a partition if you like and you'll have two computers in one! Another thing I'd look at is consumer reports which consistently rates Apple as best for customer support and low rate of failure, etc. Read a recent issue from your local library for their recommendations. Make sure, whatever you decide has an 800 MHZ motherboard. That is your indication it's got Intel's newest chipset. Get the fastest chip you can, currently Core2Duo at 2.4Mhz and put no less then 2 GB of RAM on board with at least a 100GB 5400 or 7200 RPM Hard Drive. I wouldn't go less then 15 inches for the monitor either. Good luck!

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I would save but i need a computer because my job requires a lot of at-home work finishing *BLEEP*, and i travel a lot. So I really need a laptop, something basic, but something worth the cash. So ya, but I don't really like macs set-up so i ruled that out with no research on it. Mostly I look for the look of the laptop, and how much it costs. I saw that It has 2gb, which is fairly decent for me, as I don't plan on having huge *bottom* programs running on my computer. The biggest program I will run is adobe photoshop. The rest will be all files and pictures, maybe a game or two.

Really I'm not looking for a hypted up expensive laptop, plus my parents are helping pay for most of it (75%) which is why i have a budget.

 

 

 

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this is what i'll be getting for myself when it becomes commercially available -- hopefully, come AUGUST 2007.


Enter the 'E' Era with ASUS Eee PC: The Eee PC units were revealed to come in at an extremely competitive price of around USD $199 for the 7" units, and about USD $299 for the 10" version. anticipation is at a high because of the cost. and what about the features? there are two discussions on DIGG, which you can refer to ( [DIGG1] [DIGG2] ) + from the ASUS Website itself.

wanna wait until then, nol?

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Never underestimate the power of craigslist. If you know what you're doing, you'll be able to save yourself at least $1000 on gaming machines. As for barebones laptops, you will easily find one for $200-400 that will easily fit your needs.

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If you are looking for a cheap, affordable and pretty good notebook, Dell is the way to go. They have many selections of labtops that you might find useful. Also customization can make your labtop be a crazy beast. One downside is that Dell has heavy labtops, so if you are looking to carry it around everywhere, Dell wont work. Light labtops with good stats will be in the Sony section. They will be practically the same as Dell yet more expensive and MUCH lighter. Its all up to you.

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he already got one, so no need for this (well he told me he got one :S ) its dounds pretty good, he said 4 gigs, 17" screen, and some other junk

so no need for this!@ and windows vista lol..

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I basically use the IBM Thinkpad series and the recent addition the laptops is the T60 series that'll come in that much amount. They have a decent graphic card and decent space with a gig of ram so i think it'll do with most of the requirements that you posted. check out their specs and see if you like it. I would definately recommend IBM thinkpad series to anyone thinking of buying a laptop. they are very good IMO.

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