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 Member 42 Level 42.28 Mar 2006 
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Choosing a laptop.
(Didn't know where to put this...sorry if I missed.)
Since my desktop has gone to shitsville, and since I'm going to school, I've decided to buy a laptop. I want something decent -- Pentium or Athlon based, widescreen, DVD drive...as if every laptop doesn't have at least that -- but I'd also like it to hold all my music (~40GB) plus have the power to play WoW at least as well as my desktop did (full acceleration @ 30+ fps). Of course, I don't want to bust the bank open buying one. Any thoughts/suggestions? Dell, Toshiba, HP are the brands I'm looking at but they're all kind of overpowered processor-wise and always charge an arm and a leg if you want a decent graphics card (wait, that's the story with desktops too...nevermind  ).Jam it back in, in the dark. |
Member 42 Level 42.28 Mar 2006
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That's the tough part. I don't have a shitload of money (though if I wanted to go crazy I probably could go as high as $2000), so I'd say the further over $1000 I go the more concerned I'm going to get that I'm getting too far ahead of myself.
Edit: after customizing them to my liking, this Dell and an HP were the two I was looking at. They end up being within a few dollars of each other, with the Dell coming out looking like the more powerful system for the same money. Dell E1505 Dual Core Intel Core Duo processor (1.66GHz/2MB cache/667MHz FSB) (compared to HP's Turion64 1.8GHz with a 512KB cache) Windows XP Media Center Edition (instead of XP Home with HP) 1GB DDR2 SDRAM @ 533MHz (HP's is DDR) 80GB 5400rpm SATA hard drive ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 128MB video card (versus the "Xpress", whatever that is) TOTAL: $923 There's nowhere I can't reach.
Last edited by Dopefish; Apr 13, 2006 at 10:21 PM.
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Member 42 Level 42.28 Mar 2006
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Yeah, they don't say how much it weighs on their website. I'm guessing "enough".
This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |
Member 42 Level 42.28 Mar 2006
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OK, here's a good one: eBay and computers. There are three of the Dell E1505 Inspirons with ATi graphics cards inside on eBay for under $700 (technically 5, but I won't count any of the computers that are bidding under $100 at the moment
). Has anyone had any experience with eBay as far as getting a computer?I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? |
Dopefish