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| fastmp3 |
| my brother wants to get a laptop ASAP (something between 1200 and 1400$). dell ships till mid-june ... what do you guys suggest ? |
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| jesteraver |
Would of said... Alienware or Apple but to expensive...
Stick with Dell. |
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| Neo Hacker |
| quote: | Originally posted by jesteraver
Would of said... Alienware or Apple but to expensive...
Stick with Dell. |
Alienware rocks:toothless
I was the winner of MSGPlus contest so I won that Area 51m 7700 laptop:p |
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| gorex |
custom built
never brand name.
my 2 cent |
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| DJDan-B |
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... |
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| fastmp3 |
just for browsing the net and microsoft office
i think celeron processors on toshiba suck big time |
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| djlemeir |
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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| malek |
| quote: | Originally posted by djlemeir
i can even spill soy sauce on the keyboArd... |
soy sauce my ass... :stongue: :stongue:
If you have to buy it now, go with Toshiba. |
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| Neo Hacker |
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 ;) |
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| 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 .
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... :nervous:
DjLemeir
you shoud not have bought you warranty. taurais du venir me voir jte laurais réparé pour un cd edm ...ou deux
heheh
(if parts are covered and you are on the go alot its all good) ;)
| quote: | 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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| Neo Hacker |
| quote: | 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 ;) |
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