Whats a good laptop for:
tons of music
graphics (2D & 3D)Photoshop, Maya, etc.

Basically something that can handle a large workload without crashing.
Minumim - 80 gigs.
and 2gigs of RAM. :P
dual-core or AMD

No Macs. The apple is rotten from within.


P.S. Looking for actual brand recommendations.

Last edited by lexxwolfen on Mar-27-2007 at 04:53

whatever laptop you get make sure it has at least 2gigs of RAM.

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the more ram the better... tordan's right... 2gb ram or more.

also... try to aim for..

a dual-core cpu, AMD or intel... preference is yours..
(but the intels are lately a good bit more power-friendly)

a 120GB hd, and try to get it at 7200RPM.



good luck i nyour search. If you find any deals, plz let me know, as I'm shopping for a laptop too

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Lenovo & Sony.

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I've been looking at laptops a lot lately, and because of price (I can get 15% off) I am going to get a dell(inspiron 9400+ a couple of upgrades). They seem pretty solid, and are reasonably priced. IBM/Lenovo is probably the best, but I don't think it's extremely neccesary for what you need, but if you have enough money to work with, do it.

I need something thats extremely reliable. I've had computers crash on me, causing me to lose thousands of dollars worth of projects and shit.

I work at Canada Computers so I've seen a lot of reviews and comments about lap tops. I agree with Lisa that Lenovo's are very good, but only for the higher models, they're quite expensive though. Sony isn't that great, it's over priced and is more for looks if anything.

I would suggest getting an LG, good battery life and good warranty, any models over 1300$ about that come with three year warranty. Also they build laptops for IBM, Toshiba, HP, and Apple for 11 years.

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Originally posted by oldschool420 I've been looking at laptops a lot lately, and because of price (I can get 15% off) I am going to get a dell(inspiron 9400+ a couple of upgrades). They seem pretty solid, and are reasonably priced.

they are reasonably priced but watch out for the hinges that attach the monitor to the base. one of my hinges broke right after the 3 year extended warranty period so i couldn't get it fixed. same thing happened to my friend. we both had inspiron 4100s. maybe its a problem they've fixed but certainly something i'd look into before buying another dell. as it stands, i wouldn't buy a dell laptop.

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Originally posted by Tordan they are reasonably priced but watch out for the hinges that attach the monitor to the base. one of my hinges broke right after the 3 year extended warranty period so i couldn't get it fixed. same thing happened to my friend. we both had inspiron 4100s. maybe its a problem they've fixed but certainly something i'd look into before buying another dell. as it stands, i wouldn't buy a dell laptop.

lol funny you should mention that. My current laptop(E-Machine) just did this too. Even though I have an extended warranty, they said I must've have broken it and I have to pay to have it fixed. So pissed about that. What good is the extended warranty, I doubt I'll buy another warranty to be honest. I'll just take my chances.

dont get sony, its overpriced

like the other guy said get toshiba, ibm/thinkpad, they are pretty good

the more ram is not better, thats where random crashes can occur, you need a better processor that can handle the 3d work, 2ghz+ i'd say is pretty good, 1gig ram is good enough 2 is waste of money imo, plus you can always upgrade later for cheap if you really need more. I have 512 ram and i can run 3d studio max no problem.

also just so you know, a reliable computer does not exist, you must always back up and save.

IBMs FTW,

I still have my R51 from 2005, upgraded to 2GB RAM, 100 Gig HD (enough room for all those torrents)...good machines.