Laptop Shopping?...

Ransure · Post by **Ransure** » February 5, 2005, 11:29 pm

Ok, so my company is buying me a laptop... and Im trying to figure out what I want... heres what I know so far..

>6-7lbs with battery
SXGA screen
512RAM
XP Pro

Other than that... Id love to say the company will buy me something with a nice 3d video card... but doubtfull... Im trying to influence the purchase decision as much as possible... and I think Ill have like a 1k budget for whatever I get... Dell has some deals on 1.6ghz Centrino M's that meet my requirements... but wanted to find out if anyone thought I should be looking in a different direction..

As always, any and all help is appreciated

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » February 6, 2005, 4:56 am

Just be honest and tell them your requirements are that the notebook be able to play the latest MMORPGs. : )

Syenye · Post by **Syenye** » February 7, 2005, 12:45 pm

powerbook!

Marbus · Post by **Marbus** » February 7, 2005, 1:39 pm

My Dell D600 plays WoW decently and has a 1.4GHz Pentium-M Centrino, 512MB RAM and a RADION 9000 with 32MB of RAM. As mine is almost a year and a half old they might have updated the video card in it. I would suggest getting one with a little faster card... but most of the Latitudes don't have them.

If you get an Insperion model, which is more of the home market, you should get a decent card as long as you get one of the middle of the line or higher models.

Marb

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » February 7, 2005, 2:01 pm

I put together a notebook over on the Dell site and it came out to about 1750.00 with my must have options.

-1600X1040 17" widescreen display (their standard 17" is 1280 x something)
-1GB ram (256 standard...ug)
-80GB HD (40gb standard I think)

you could probably drop to a normal 17" screen and drop the HD size (I'd at least get 512 ram though) and be close to 1,200 range. Still a nice system with wireless, etc included.

That was with one of those new M Centrino chips models.

Ransure · Post by **Ransure** » February 7, 2005, 4:16 pm

Whatever laptop that was Winnow, it must weigh like 100lbs...

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » February 7, 2005, 4:23 pm

Ransure wrote:Whatever laptop that was Winnow, it must weigh like 100lbs...

you weakling! : )

well, if you need it for actually travelling you might get a smaller one but my needs were for reading comics so weight isn't that critical but that nice 1600X1040 17" screen is.

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » February 7, 2005, 5:17 pm

you bought a laptop to read comics?

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » February 7, 2005, 6:06 pm

Voronwë wrote:you bought a laptop to read comics?

Among other things but reading comics was the catalyst for considering one. I don't want to be tied to my computer desk or living room projector while reading all of the time. I'm thinking a notebook along with the beverage of my choice out on the patio or by the pool might be nice these days with the extended range and power of the new notebooks.