Laptop Q's

[andius]

Im looking for a laptop, that is fairly light with some good power (1.5ghz and above) with at least 256 mb of ram. I'm looking in the 700-900usd department.

 

[trooper]

Ebay ???

Trooper

 

[generalnmx]

Im looking for a laptop, that is fairly light with some good power (1.5ghz and above) with at least 256 mb of ram. I'm looking in the 700-900usd department.

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Camp www.dell.com and wait for a sale. Get a Pentium-M. If you ever want to run games on it, you'll need to spend around $200 more for one with on-chip video memory. If you don't mind it being total crap, look at Toshibas and Compaqs.

 

[Ksmiler]

If you don't mind it being total crap, look at Toshibas and Compaqs.

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Why do you say this? :unsure: Thought Toshiba made great laptops.

 

[don]

They're not worse than Dell. And they got decent customer service, opposed to Dell.

 

[GPJosh]

I have always found Toshiba laptops very reliable with my Win 3.1 laptop still going strong. Price wise though they might be beat by Dell, but in my opinion, not in quality.

 

[generalnmx]

Eh, I don't trust Toshibas, especially since all the ones I know can't handle 640x480 resolution.

HP is offering a laptop for $999 plus shipping with a big LCD.

 

[Steve-O]

Buy a Dell and you'll goto hell

lol

Dell has CRAP customer service In My Opinion...

They put out a Laptop Charger recall about 5 - 6 months ago, Our charger was affected so we filled the form out and dell said they would send a new one... It STILL hasn't arrived (that was over 5 months ago)!!!!!!

 

[Phycho Doughboy]

Did I hear something wrong or are only DELLs upgradeable?? If I heard something wrong then don't go with dell...........

 

[Steve-O]

Did I hear something wrong or are only DELLs upgradeable?? If I heard something wrong then don't go with dell...........

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We have a Compaq and upgraded the RAM on it...

 

[generalnmx]

Buy a Dell and you'll goto hell

lol

Dell has CRAP customer service In My Opinion...

They put out a Laptop Charger recall about 5 - 6 months ago, Our charger was affected so we filled the form out and dell said they would send a new one... It STILL hasn't arrived (that was over 5 months ago)!!!!!!

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That must be a UK thing or something, since Dell customer support has always been top-notch for me.

I broke my AC Adapter (my fault) and asked for a replacement. Now since it was my fault, and out of warrenty, there wasn't much they could do about it. But they gave me a $30 coupon anyway, and with the 15% off from the sale they had on their online store, that brought the adapter down to $0.99! (plus $3 shipping). Can't beat that.

Oh, and most laptops are upgradable.

 

[Mark]

Have you told us about that before on these boards GeneralMx, it just seems familar...

Maybe I imagined it.

 

[Rico]

Im looking for a laptop, that is fairly light with some good power (1.5ghz and above) with at least 256 mb of ram. I'm looking in the 700-900usd department.

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[generalnmx]

Have you told us about that before on these boards GeneralMx, it just seems familar...

Maybe I imagined it.

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Yeah, I mentioned it like a year ago. You have a good memory

 

[andius]

err.. should have put that I'm looking for a windows laptop, nothing really against Mac's it's just that all of my stuff is for Windows and I'm used to it.

 

[generalnmx]

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/f...s=19&l=en&s=dhs

Pentium-M = Good (so is the latest Athlon Mobile too)
Pentium 4 = bad
Celeron = bad

Video Card with on-chip video memory (NOT Shared) = Good for Games
Shared Video Memory = Not Good for Games (Radeon IGP included)

If you don't trust Dell, fine, just try to follow the steps above.