my mom is giving me a $1000 to buy a laptop. ofcourse i have to shell out the rest of the money if the price is higher than $1000.


what laptop should i buy? i want all the goodies (i mean ALL of it) and it must be loaded. i'll think about the price later, i just want to see what's out there..

tell me what you guys recommend, and i'll take the consideration of weight, price, screen size, and CPU capabilities..


i have a bunch of friends who have laptops, so a lot of what you guys will say , i have probably used/seen... tell me what's the best..

 

Dell 700m

 

i'll check that right now..


is that what you have?

 

could you guys give me a quick price and some computer info

 

Are you going to have to travel with it? Do you plan to game with it? Will it be a desktop replacement that won't travel hardly at all???

Answer these and give us a better idea on what you need. There are ALOT of good laptops out there for aroudn 1k to 1500.

 

I sold a Dell 9300 to a customer a couple weeks ago. Here's what it had:

Pentium M 1.6
512 PC3200
80gb 5400rmp hdd
ATI Mobile Radion 256mb
17" widescreen (the good display)
DVD-RW


My cost new from dell with coupons $1285 shipped.

 

Ya mine is on order.

check my thread for dell coupons if u want to buy dell.
https://acurazine.com/forums/ramblings-12/where-dell-coupon-when-you-need-one-315637/

 

okay, let me list some of my min. requirements that could filter out some laptops,


i want ATLEAST:

has to look good, (heh,)
2 ghz,
256 ddr ram
15"
dvd-r/cd-rw
has to have wireless network capabilty
good graphics card.


vector, well those things do'nt really matter, like i would bring it w/ me everywhere (i have a small sense of security) if its light, but if it's heavy i'll just leave it.. it's going to school, if it's heavy i'll just leave it at the dorm and use my desktop at home..

 

If you want over 2ghz, you need to buy a regular pentium 4 HT...etc.

If you want better portability and battery life. Go pentium M at 1.6 or 1.8. Almost as fast, but MUCH LIGHTER, and MUCH MORE BATTERY LIFE. Plus, your machine will end up being like half the thinkness....

I have a 700m right now too. Great portability. SMALL DISPLAY. I have to take it on on my housecalls, so it works great for my uses.

 

someone is selling a nice slightly-used Toshiba form like 1k

 

this is what I went with


Inspiron 700m
Intel® Pentium® M Processor 755(2 GHz/400MHz FSB) 12.1-in WXGA, Microsoft Windows XP Professional
1GB DDR SDRAM 2 Dimms
60 GB Hard Drive
8x CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability


Total $1,377.29 with tax and shit

 

wow, 12.1".. ouch.. hmm, anything w/ a bigger screen teh Jatt?

 

https://acurazine.com/forums/car-parts-sale-361/fs-toshiba-laptop-p4-3-2ghz-less-than-3-mnths-old-317348/

 

I have the same setup but no DVD burner and a 1.6Pentium M, and an 8cell battery. Mine was only like $950 after coupons....

 

I don't care about teh screen.

 

now don't rub it in.

 

That 2.0 Pentium M....thats where you paid for it. I would have loved to get the faster processor...but I couldn't justify the cost....

 

If you want a "good graphics card" then you should probably skip the 700m. IMO, the included Intel graphics are pretty weak compared to the mobile offerings from ATI and Nvidia. Also don't forget to compare apples to apples when looking at screen size. Some notebooks have wide screen displays and some have traditional 4:3 displays.

 

what screen is mine

 

Widescreen or 16:9

And everyone is right. If you plan to game, don't go with the 700m.

 

700m is a wide screen format although it's not a true 16x9 wide screen like an HDTV. Close enough though. I have a 700m too and it fits the role I purchased it for perfectly which is carry it with me on the train every day and get some work done on the ride in.

 

what do you recommend/use Billiam?

 

here is a question for you all, while you're here


what is the CHEAPEST laptop with built-in wifi I can buy? I would use it mostly to tel-serv into my more powerful desktop machines, so I dont necessarily need top-notch performance out of the box, just portability and a fast wifi (which doesnt take up the pcmcia slot...i need that for my card reader)

I'd like to go new if possible, and as close to $0

 

BTW - I used an Inspiron 6000 at the office for about a week. Not bad. While it's noticeably larger than my 700m, you're getting a much larger display (same resolution though) and a full sized keyboard for what seemed like not that much additional weight. I have no idea what the graphics are though.

 

so far all the laptops are dell, any other brands you guys recommend? sony? hp? how's the vaio?

 

if i were to get a new laptop, i would get the new dell one. the tiny 12" one its nice

 

2nd that.

 

Toshiba, IBM (4:3only last time i checked), Fugitsu (4:3only last time i checked)..... Those are other brands i'd recomend......

 

question... I'm also looking to purchase 700m once I can find a better deal than 35% off $999.00. I wanted to know if anyone invested their money on its sound card. On dell, you have the option of purchasing Sound blaster sound card. I don't know if it's built in but according to its description it would sound ALOT better than its original laptop speaker. Any comment on this?

 

If you want to go with the best as you claim, then I'd look at IBM. They have the best laptops on the market, bar none IMHO. You will end up paying more. Also you say you want all the bells and whistles, but you also said you want at least 256 MB of ram. 256 mb of ram with Windows XP will SEVERELY limit your performance. In other words your computer will be slow as balls. You have to get at least 512 mb and I would recommend going up to 1 gb. I was able to upgrade my laptop to 2 gb of ram for only $200 so you could always look to upgrade later. Just make sure it supports more ram.

 

I have the Dell 700M as well. Love it

http://www.deals2buy.com/delldeals.htm
Scroll down

 

a 15" within your pricerange is going to be heavy.

Also, 256mb RAM is not going to cut it.

Dell has good laptops within your price range... HP/Compaq laptops will also fit in there... think about using an athlon64 based notebooke to save cash...

Also, realize that "GHz" doesn't mean anything anymore, it's all about comparitive performance... a 1.6GHz Pentium-M can whoop on a 2+GHz P4...

 

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellsto...=i2200S2&s=dhs

 

I should have my dell 700m today

 

dude wtf ... u can get that for 1000 with all the specials

 

^ i used coupon

 

Don't buy additional RAM from Dell!!!!! They bend you over big time. Even name brand memory from Crucial can be had for notably less than what Dell charges.

I don't know if they're still the same, but my 700m appeared to have the base 256MB I ordered it with attached to the motherboard. I say this beacuse both SODIMM slots were completely empty when I popped the cover off to put in my 1GB stick of Crucial.

 

i finally decided what laptop to buy,


a TABLET PC!!! saw it in bestbuy and damn, that's hot.


so i need to know now, where can i get one for a good price. There was a toshiba one there w/ most of the stuff i want.. but for 1600$... need something a little lower..


what are my choices for tablet PC?(these are the ones you can write on right?)

 

pricewatch.com

 

pricegrabber.com