Laptop Ideas (1 Viewer)

[michael1990]

Hey there peeps,

I'm looking at buying a new laptop. I want to spend around (give or take) $1500 and want it to have:

• Good Battery Life
• About 3GB Ram
• 250Gb Hard Drive
• 512MB or so Graphics
• Light and Compact but large screen

It will be for train use, and for university education. So just the basic principals of word and such. Won't be used for games, but want it so it has the potential to run soft games.

Thought I would ask and see if anyone has any ideas. Please discuss.

 

[whatashotbyseve]

I would settle for the Dell Inspiron 1525. It will do all that and more and is within budget.

 

[vds700]

Hey there peeps,

I'm looking at buying a new laptop. I want to spend around (give or take) $1500 and want it to have:

• Good Battery Life
• About 3GB Ram
• 250Gb Hard Drive
• 512MB or so Graphics
• Light and Compact but large screen

It will be for train use, and for university education. So just the basic principals of word and such. Won't be used for games, but want it so it has the potential to run soft games.

Thought I would ask and see if anyone has any ideas. Please discuss.

Just look around on a few sites like DSE, JB Hifi, Harris Technology, Harvey Norman etc etc until you find what you need at the right price, its not that hard.

Im in the same boat, looking for 1 for uni, and think im gonna get a Toshiba one, 15.4', C2D 2 Ghz, 2Gb. 250 GB 256 Mb ATI Graphics for $1276 from JB Hifi

 

[AsyLum]

Toshiba's are way too heavy for portable use, they're more prone to being desktop replacements.

One of the netbooks, or lighter portables would suit you.

 

[Omie Jay]

good battery and good graphics are on opposite ends of the seesaw.

 

[wrxsti]

ASUS FTW!

get the Asus Lamborghini.

 

[Omie Jay]

lol.

for the asus lambo- performance wise, theres much better, price wise, $1000 is added on for the use of 'lamborghini' in its logo -_-

 

[wrxsti]

lol.

$1000 is added on for the use of 'lamborghini' in its logo -_-

Big time lol.

 

[same person]

This is completely off the topic, and not at all useful for you, but...

My lap top has this fandy dany finger-print identification!! What'll they think of next??

 

[Omie Jay]

ASUS Lamborghini VX3 Specifications - Laptops

My laptop has better hardware (better cpu, same ram, better graphics, same hdd), costs less than half ($1500 for my one) and came with laptop bag, MS Office home and student 07, external 250gb harddrive.

sif pay $5000 just for that.. i'd get a frikin alienware instead..

 

[Omie Jay]

This is completely off the topic, and not at all useful for you, but...

My lap top has this fandy dany finger-print identification!! What'll they think of next??

haha, welcome to technology. Mine has it too. Mine has face recognition too

But fingerprint scanners were out on laptops like 3-4 years ago..

 

[same person]

haha, welcome to technology. Mine has it too. Mine has face recognition too

But fingerprint scanners were out on laptops like 3-4 years ago..

Thanks for the update!
My laptop I've had for 8 years died just before Christmas (may it rest in peace), so I had to brave the big bad world of Domayne to buy another one.

And it's so clever!! I can now be on the internet AND have a word document up at the same time...GO TECHNOLOGY!!!

haha

 

[Omie Jay]

Thanks for the update!
My laptop I've had for 8 years died just before Christmas (may it rest in peace), so I had to brave the big bad world of Domayne to buy another one.

And it's so clever!! I can now be on the internet AND have a word document up at the same time...GO TECHNOLOGY!!!

haha

HAHAHAHhahahahahah, good on ya

I can be on internet, have word docs open, msn open, and run a game, alt tabbing between to open up a game walkthrough or talk to a friend. Not that i do that..
But i can!!!!!!

 

[same person]

HAHAHAHhahahahahah, good on ya

I can be on internet, have word docs open, msn open, and run a game, alt tabbing between to open up a game walkthrough or talk to a friend. Not that i do that..
But i can!!!!!!

Geeeeez, talk about multi tasking....haha

I almost had a heart attack because I couldn't find the Calculator application, and I was thinking 'What the hell? It has finger-print id, 500G memory, voice detection, centrino 2, web cam...all those exciting things...AND NO CALCULATOR!!??'

but then I did a quick search and I found it...just as well, or I was going to be having some words with someone...

 

[Omie Jay]

lol.
If u got vista then u can always use the search function from the start menu to find whatever u need. It works extremely quick for me, maybe cuz i have awesome hardware...............

 

[same person]

lol.
If u got vista then u can always use the search function from the start menu to find whatever u need. It works extremely quick for me, maybe cuz i have awesome hardware...............

Thank you so much for educating me about my laptop...there's so much to learn!!
and good on your for having 'Such awesome hardware'.....hahaha

 

[Omie Jay]

lol, no worries

 

[Omie Jay]

And to michael1990, customize urself a dell laptop, theyre cheap and will do the job. If only soft games, then an integrated graphics will do just fine. (define soft games)

 

[withoutaface]

1. You're not going to need 512mb graphics for 'light gaming'. In fact I'm not sure if anything below an x600GT comes with 512mb of memory.
2. Buy a Dell Studio 15, or a Thinkpad if you're willing to splash out a little bit more for something which will last forever.
3. Get a student discount by going to Dell EPP, and also search Whirlpool Broadband Forums to see if you can find any % off coupons to stack on top of that.
4. If you must buy something else, avoid HP like the plague. They look nicely specced but the battery life is 90 minutes if you're lucky and the user experience is simply awful.

 

[sunny]

or a thinkpad if you're willing to splash out a little bit more for something which will last forever.

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