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Geek Culture / Best Laptop For The Money?

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Ace Of Spades
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Posted: 27th Jun 2005 06:47
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Well I don't know the first thing about laptop computers but now I need one. My budget is $1000. I need to know the best I can get for that. What it will be used for is simple stuff mostly, word processing, web surfing, graphics editing, programming, etc... It will rarely if ever be used for any of the new high power games. It will have lots of high size files and programs on it though. Can you please give me some suggestions?

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sspike
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Posted: 27th Jun 2005 07:01
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I got a FUJITSU SIEMENS Amilo something anyway it has an AMD 64 3400+ processor. I use it fine for running programs like Maya so you should have no problems for what you want to use it for and it cost me just under £800 so quite cheap considering the alternatives
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Ace Of Spades
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Posted: 27th Jun 2005 07:07
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Well I absolutely cannot spend anything over $1000, so that seems to be too much right now.

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Hawkeye
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Posted: 27th Jun 2005 07:49
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Check out http://www.ibuypower.com


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Posted: 27th Jun 2005 21:40
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go to [href]overstock.com[/href] and theyve got some GREAT deals on some pretty good ones. or you could do eBay or amazone. also [href]tigardirect.com[/href] has some (and you can coustomize! )

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SageTech
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Posted: 28th Jun 2005 09:05
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not compaq! for god sake not compaq! I had a compaq laptop and i regret the day i layed eyes upon its evil red brand name that is "compaq". Do your self a favour and get a dell.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 28th Jun 2005 18:43
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IBM and Toshiba make nice laptops. Their latest models have great screens on them. I'm buying a laptop later this week, but at $2300 (student price) I don't think you'd be interested. I'm getting a 17" G4 powerbook. You should actually give Ebay a try. I been looking on there at laptop for the past week or so. I've come across some really good deals, but I didn't get them cause I decided on an Apple.

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indi
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Posted: 29th Jun 2005 15:18
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nice one phaelax, make sure you get os x 10.4 with it or 10.3.x discs

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Undercover Steve
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Posted: 29th Jun 2005 22:46 Edited at: 29th Jun 2005 22:46
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heh...compaq are good. I dont see why people hit on them. They usually have 3 hr battery life when they say 2hr.. It is quite funny. (my experience with 2 boughten, and 1 office one)
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DBAlex
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Posted: 30th Jun 2005 00:50
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Quote: "not compaq! for god sake not compaq! I had a compaq laptop and i regret the day i layed eyes upon its evil red brand name that is "compaq". Do your self a favour and get a dell.
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ROFLMFAO.

Are you for real?

Dell sucks... My sisters Compaq laptop works perfectly.


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BiggAdd
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Posted: 30th Jun 2005 01:25 Edited at: 30th Jun 2005 01:26
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is it absolutely necassery u buy a laptop? Please do not buy a laptop for the novalty value of carrying round a pc.
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Ace Of Spades
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Posted: 30th Jun 2005 01:52
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Quote: " is it absolutely necassery u buy a laptop?"


Yes, im going to need it for my different classes in fall, and its not exactly easy to haul around a desktop.

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Dazzag
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Posted: 30th Jun 2005 02:32
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I got a Dell. People slag them off, but it's normally just anti-fanboys. eg. some people praise NVidia or MS through the roof no matter what, and some people are totally the opposite. Personally, if it works well, then fine. Also the resolution was tops (1920x1200) and at the time the spec was very very good (Doom 3 plays fine, is not one of those huge efforts, and has proper battery life at around 4 hours). I loved my old HP, but this thing knocks it's socks off in every department. Apart from connectivety.

At the time I looked at Alienware *coughmassiveripoffcough* quite seriously, but honestly couldn't rate them any higher than a RockDirect Extreme (one of quite a few who used the same chassis at the time), which was cheaper (£200) and faster (Alienware had slower memory, and slower benchmarks). Got to love the alien eyes in the BIOS though Preferred Voodoo though.

I looked a hell of a lot into laptops at the time (about a year ago or so), and the most useful site was http://www.whatlaptop.co.uk/Forums/Default.aspx Great site. There was also a site I cannot remember, but it was mainly fanboy type stuff.

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vid1987
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Posted: 30th Jun 2005 02:55
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Quote: "My sisters Compaq laptop works perfectly.
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My sister has a Compaq Laptop aswell...

When she first got it it ran amazingly fast...

But now she's starting to download unnecessary programs and fill up the HDD with a bunch of games.. (and god knows what else) and I can really notice it going a lot slower...

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DBAlex
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Posted: 30th Jun 2005 03:08
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Quote: "But now she's starting to download unnecessary programs and fill up the HDD with a bunch of games.. (and god knows what else) and I can really notice it going a lot slower..."


Well obviously it will run slower if she fills it up with cr*p... My sisters is still running fast... She did her IT A-Level on it... Because she couldnt get on this PC because of me


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Dot Merix
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Posted: 30th Jun 2005 03:43 Edited at: 30th Jun 2005 03:44
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Also check http://www.newegg.com/

It seems to be a decent site for most -americans- from what i can tell they dont ship here to canada

Anyways, take a look, they got some cheap stuff.



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