my new laptop

Malcolm -- Get used to lack of support for Legacy items. Rumor has it MS is going the way of Mac and saying screw Legacy stuff. It's hard to update the drivers for a new OS and there are lots of security problems. We had a pretty long discussion about this in class, pretty interesting stuff.

the thing about battery life is the bigger screens murder it, if you have a super fast gfx card (for a laptop), that hurts, and the processor is next.

for ~800 (rebate sale) you could have gotten dual core amd 64... worse battery life, but at 17", it's not going to be amazing to begin with. at the same price range you could probably get a lower end dual core 15" of either brand too.

honestly, unless you're using it for gaming or video editing, the speed difference isn't going to be noticed, and for gaming, the gfx card is the bottleneck for laptops (which usually use low end pieces).

anyways, it's not outrageous for what you got, but its probably a good bit more than you actually need. I mean, 2g ram and 200gb HD space on a laptop is really a lot ;).

the thing about battery life is the bigger screens murder it, if you have a super fast gfx card (for a laptop), that hurts, and the processor is next.

for ~800 (rebate sale) you could have gotten dual core amd 64... worse battery life, but at 17", it's not going to be amazing to begin with. at the same price range you could probably get a lower end dual core 15" of either brand too.

honestly, unless you're using it for gaming or video editing, the speed difference isn't going to be noticed, and for gaming, the gfx card is the bottleneck for laptops (which usually use low end pieces).

anyways, it's not outrageous for what you got, but its probably a good bit more than you actually need. I mean, 2g ram and 200gb HD space on a laptop is really a lot ;).


hey, I'm cool with that... I cant build a laptop, and I dont mind having more than I need...

I had a desktop built for me a couple of years ago that is still nice, and its about the same paramiters as the laptop...

I thought this one would be nice on trips for movies and such, and we like to edit home movies with our digital video camera, so its handy for that... tha lightscribe thing excites me and I really want to try it out...

the last time I spent this kind of money on a computer was when I upgraded from my moms 386 to my own 486 DX... and then the DX II came out followed by the pentium within a year... and I was left in the dust...

much rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it...

without doing upgrades yourself, upgrading can be much more expensive than just getting a machine with all the crap on it.

If I were looking for a good "work laptop", any of you guys have anything good? PM me if interested

Your average user should be paying more than a grand for a laptop. Seriously, what are you going to do with computer except browse Internet, check email, and create documents?


BTW, laptops are more likely to break before they are outdated so you are better off spending extra money on service plan than some extra feature you don't need.

Your average user should be paying more than a grand for a laptop. Seriously, what are you going to do with computer except browse Internet, check email, and create documents?


BTW, laptops are more likely to break before they are outdated so you are better off spending extra money on service plan then some extra feature you don't need.


Not all laptops. The IBM Thinkpads and older Dells last a long time as long as you don't drop it down the stairs. My wife's is a Pentium 2 Dell Latitude (366 mhz is all she needs for solitaire and writing with no internet) and it's still solid as a rock. I just had to put it's 3rd hard drive in it, but it still has years left. If the mobo ever craps out, I'll replace it with a Thinkpad I think.