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my brother wants to get a laptop ASAP (something between 1200 and 1400$). dell ships till mid-june ... what do you guys suggest ?

Would of said... Alienware or Apple but to expensive...

Stick with Dell.

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Originally posted by jesteraver Would of said... Alienware or Apple but to expensive... Stick with Dell.

Alienware rocks

I was the winner of MSGPlus contest so I won that Area 51m 7700 laptop

custom built

never brand name.

my 2 cent

With laptops; no customs*!

*(at 1200 - 1400S)

I know laptops well, I sell them everyday. In laptops it's not always the performance that counts but things like its weight, portability and power efficiency.Other things like screen quality, in some cases even sound quality. Then you look at it's overall design, and price.

In most of the cases one of very good units to get is from Toshiba. They use deacent hard drives and motherboards. Very little problems with them. You can find a deacent one for 1400. Another aspect of bying one will be set by your (his) needs. Is it for web applications or 3D design...

just for browsing the net and microsoft office

i think celeron processors on toshiba suck big time

i just got an inspiron 6000 from dell on wed.. i love it.
its a desktop replacement basicly and i got a kickass waranty for 3 years from dell for 230 bux. if drop it and the screen breaks, i get a new one from dell.. kickass!!
i can even spill soy sauce on the keyboArd... complete care baby!

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Originally posted by djlemeir i can even spill soy sauce on the keyboArd...

soy sauce my ass...


If you have to buy it now, go with Toshiba.

this one looks good, what do you guys think



http://www.directdial.com/ca/shopac...7205%2E008.html

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Originally posted by fastmp3 this one looks good, what do you guys think http://www.directdial.com/ca/shopac...7205%2E008.html

well Acer is pretty good on laptop and battery so I'ld recommend it. But what does your brother want? If he wants a laptop and get it everywhere, he should get a 13.3 screen. A 15.4 is most of the time called a desktop replacement. It's pretty big to carry, I know because my girlfriend has a 15.4 inchs.

If you want to save most power as possible to save your battery, then stay with Centrino, as you choose. If you want more power, go get a P4.

Bottom line, pick that laptop for a desktop replacement because of the size of the screen. The hardware inside isn't very powerful so you wouldn't be able to run latests games. Basically: DVDs, Internet, MP3s and Word is what should be used with that Acer

Fast make sure the ACER's Hard disk turns 7200RPM and has a 8mb cache. As far as im concerned if thats a postive its an ok buy. I am also somwhat knowledgable in this field as I repair these things. I get sometimes this kind of laptops for under 1k. Im working today - I will look around and let you know .


To all who say Toshiba, let me tell that the most laptops that we fix (probably 70-80%) are two branded : HP/Compaq and Toshiba (I guess this is also due to the high percentage of consumers having them)
I didnt see one Dell in the past year or so, and very very rarely IBM.
One reason of this is Dell uses Western digital hard disks not to compare with pre xs hp era's seagates...

DjLemeir
you shoud not have bought you warranty. taurais du venir me voir jte laurais r�par� pour un cd edm ...ou deux
heheh

(if parts are covered and you are on the go alot its all good)

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Originally posted by DJDan-B With laptops; no customs*!

I am just against brand names in what concerns notebooks or desktops. My last post was coming outta my heart and not brain.

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Originally posted by gorex Fast make sure the ACER's Hard disk turns 7200RPM and has a 8mb cache. As far as im concerned if thats a postive its an ok buy. I am also somwhat knowledgable in this field as I repair these things. I get sometimes this kind of laptops for under 1k. Im working today - I will look around and let you know .

A 7200rpm hd on a laptop is much more expensive than a 5400 rpm. And if you add 8MB of buffer instead of 2, you'll pay too much.

If you're using your laptop as a workstation for Word, Internet, DVDs and MP3s, a 7200rpm and even 8MB of hard drive is useless. If you're gamming, now this will become usefull because the buffer will contains more data so the hd will have to spin less in other to get data.

If you're buying a 8MB buffer and using it for Word, the only change you'll notice is Windows booting few seconds faster. Instead of putting money on this, I'ld recommend getting another 512MB of RAM which will much more boost the perfs of the pc/laptop.

geek talking

Check out

Tiger Direct Canada
NCIX

Both from Canada booyah!

ASUS might have some good laptops in ur price range

i got a compaq evo n1000c, its pretty decent; id say go for the smallest and lightest, cuz u'll be carryin it a lot (else dont get it), and centrino of course.

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Originally posted by Enjoy centrino of course.

So true.

Didnt Intel come out with a new processor for wireless lan because of WiMax ?

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Originally posted by jesteraver Check out Tiger Direct Canada NCIX Both from Canada booyah! ASUS might have some good laptops in ur price range

Might also want to go to Pricenetwork Canada to check the best price for the laptop in Canada

And Asus is pretty good. The only problem they have is their battery sucks. No more than 2h-2h30 on an OK laptop.

My recommendatiosn would be (in order) : Fujitsu/Acer/IBM/Toshiba/Asus

Fujitsu are the best for battery life. The 13.3 Lifebook can stay up to 4-5h on 1 battery! And also, the cd-dvd drive is hot swap and you may slide a second battery in the bay while the computer is turned on (hot swap!) so you get double battery life if you're planning a big trip Of course you have to buy the second battery, which is nearly 200$CDN, but I think this is a very cool feature that most laptops should have.

As for Acer you know my opinion

As for IBM, I used a Thinkpad T42 for a whole week at my job (I'm an IT during summer and winter) and the battery stays for about 3h30 4h in normal use. But man, the perfs on this laptop and any IBM laptops are pretty good. It's the most professional brand I've encountered in laptops. Plus, their customer service is top notch, but not as good as Alienware

Toshiba is okay. My girlfriend and many of my friends has a "A" serie and it's pretty good. About 3h of battery life with a P4 (which is very good regarding the power consummed by a P4) and perfs are very good too. If you want a laptop to play, I,ld recommend Toshiba because they're more desktop replacement than any other brand listed in my preferences. FYI, Toshiba has announced few weeks ago that they're working on a battery that will be able to get a P4 working for 8 hours and even if you charge up the battery 1000 times, the capacity will stays optimal (not like current batterys or AA rechargeables). And words are saying that the charge for this battery will be super quick, like 10 minutes = 1 hour.

Hope that helps a bit

Oh yah... if u get one... dont put it on ur lap... its going to kill off ur lil taha's

mine is a toshiba, i paid around 1500$ and never had any problems with it
its quite powerfull too...but that depends of the usage...

basically it's for internet word/excel and mp3, that's all. so i guess the acer i proposed is good for that no need for a gaming super computer or something like that.

best deal I found was an Hp pentium M 1.5, 40gb, 512 DDR RAm. 1299+tx.
rien de koi �tre emball�...

hehehe merci quand meme gorex

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