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Thread: Buying A Laptop

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    Hey, a mate asked me to help him choose a laptop and i was wondering if you guys had any suggestions. He's looking to spend about 1000 quid (~$1500 US), the laptop should be general purpose as he's not a big gamer but would probably like to be able to run recentish games on it (eg Unreal II / 2003 ). Battery lifetime isn't really a big concern as chances are he won't use it much on the move.
    My thoughts so far were along the lines of:
    > 2GHz P4 or AMD (prob AMD cos they seem generally cheaper)
    512MB ram
    2 or more USB 2 slots (seems standard)
    CDRW
    64MB graphics (I'm gonna double check on the games thing)

    Bigger the screen the better, are there different types of screen, any i should look out for / avoid?
    Wireless networking might be nice, but can be added later
    don't need firewire, but that seems standard as well.


    So far the best one i saw was:
    http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/revie...y.php?id=48907
    Spec: Mobile Athlon XP 2500+ processor, 512MB 266MHz DDR RAM, 64MB ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 graphics, Panasonic 2xDVD RAM 2xDVD-R 1xDVD-RW 8xDVD 16xCD-R 8xCD-RW 24xCD drive, AC'97 Audio sound, 15in TFT screen with 1,400x1,050 pixels, 56K modem and 10/100 network port. Weighs 3.1kg.

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    seems quite good,

    i got a compaq evo n1015v with athlon 1500xp and 384mb ram, 64mb ati card 20gig hdd and cd-rom a year ago from dabs

    i got a 14.1" screen which is about the same viewable as a 15" crt.

    if hes interested ill sell him mine for about £600

  4. Software & Hardware   -   #4
    Just Bought a Dell Inspiron 5150 last month.

    3.06 ghz pentium 4
    40GB hard drive
    24x CDR/DVD combo
    15' UGXA (best resolution available)
    512mb memory

    I got it for $1412 but then again I have an educator's discount

    Anyhow I am very happy with it this far.

    I recommend you look into a dell refurbished model. Most of the time there isn't anything wrong with them they're just returned for a different model. Look at the 5100,5150 and the 8500. http://www.dell.com

    Good Luck

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