Dear NYTA's,
I need y'all's help in picking out a laptop for college. I basically need something that's good for work (word processing, slideshow presentations, spreadsheets), gaming, audio/video (music, DVD's etc.) and has great customer service....and of course won't cost me my first-born child.
Please help me!!! Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,
Patrick

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It has to start somewhere,
It has to start sometime,
What better place then here?
What better time than now?
--Rage Against the Machine

dell always has some nice packages.

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When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over. ~Karl Lagerfeld

ibm thinkpad T series
T42 and up are really nice. they have pretty good customer support and they're like a rock as far as performance and sturdy.

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In the beginning there was Jack. And Jack had a groove. And from this groove came the groove of all grooves. And while one day viciously throwing down on his box Jack boldly declared "Let there be house!" And house music was born. I am the creator and this is my house and in my house there is only house music. But I am not so selfish because once you enter my house it then becomes our house and our house music and you see no one man owns house because house music is a universal language spoke and understood by all. You see, house is a feeling that no one can understand really unless you're deep into the vibe of house. House is an uncontrollable desire to jack your body and as I told you before this is our house and our house music. In every house you understand, there is a keeper and in this house the keeper is Jack.

i have always been a fan of toshiba. the price is reasonable too.

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Kraftwerk. Die Mensch Maschine.
John Donne "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning". Thy firmness makes my circle just, and makes me end where I begun.

thinkpads are the most reliable and have the highest resale value..

If i had a choice i would wait 3 weeks until the new powerbooks are announced and pick up a g4 powerbook. OSX is by far a superior OS. Allthough a lot of people hate to admit it, just go to the chillout room and look at how many people try and imitate it. I personally run both machines but my windows machine is solely to run EQ2 and Counterstrike..

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"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes"

It's hard to get a laptop optimized for gaming without paying more than $2000.

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Originally posted by Yan It's hard to get a laptop optimized for gaming without paying more than $2000.

yeah, a gaming laptop gets a hell of a lot hotter, weights a lot more, and gets a lot shorter batterylife..

CHeap and gaming dont go well together...

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"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes"

just get a dell. couple of days ago they had a $750 off $1499 or more for there inspirion. if you check www.fatwallet.com and www.slickdeals.net http://www.rage3d.com/deals/ they have hot cheap dell laptop for cheap after rebate/coupon + coupon + promo + more coupon like these
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ehh i never really liked any of the dell portables, they're kinda easily broken

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In the beginning there was Jack. And Jack had a groove. And from this groove came the groove of all grooves. And while one day viciously throwing down on his box Jack boldly declared "Let there be house!" And house music was born. I am the creator and this is my house and in my house there is only house music. But I am not so selfish because once you enter my house it then becomes our house and our house music and you see no one man owns house because house music is a universal language spoke and understood by all. You see, house is a feeling that no one can understand really unless you're deep into the vibe of house. House is an uncontrollable desire to jack your body and as I told you before this is our house and our house music. In every house you understand, there is a keeper and in this house the keeper is Jack.

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Originally posted by Yan It's hard to get a laptop optimized for gaming without paying more than $2000.

well i'm not looking for a computer that's optimized for gaming because of the ridiculous price tags but i don't want one that's built solely for work, you know?

fr0st: if i get OSX is it possible to put microsoft office on it becuase i need something that's microsoft compatible in case i need to rpit a document out on a school computer or something like that and they don't have macs.

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It has to start somewhere,
It has to start sometime,
What better place then here?
What better time than now?
--Rage Against the Machine

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Originally posted by DR86 well i'm not looking for a computer that's optimized for gaming because of the ridiculous price tags but i don't want one that's built solely for work, you know? fr0st: if i get OSX is it possible to put microsoft office on it becuase i need something that's microsoft compatible in case i need to rpit a document out on a school computer or something like that and they don't have macs.

u can buy office for macs and it should work completely fine.

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In the beginning there was Jack. And Jack had a groove. And from this groove came the groove of all grooves. And while one day viciously throwing down on his box Jack boldly declared "Let there be house!" And house music was born. I am the creator and this is my house and in my house there is only house music. But I am not so selfish because once you enter my house it then becomes our house and our house music and you see no one man owns house because house music is a universal language spoke and understood by all. You see, house is a feeling that no one can understand really unless you're deep into the vibe of house. House is an uncontrollable desire to jack your body and as I told you before this is our house and our house music. In every house you understand, there is a keeper and in this house the keeper is Jack.

office on OSX runs great.. And all documents created on a mac can be transfered to a pc running office. This includes powerpoint, excel,word etc.. Again if your thinking of getting a mac wait a few weeks till they blow out the powerbook g4's

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"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes"