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oudiophile
19 Nov 2004, 12:45am
I am buying a laptop soon, and I'm not quite what sure to get. I have 1,100 to spend plus or minus a few tens. I DO want a widescreen if possible, Pentium M is a must, and Ram should be 512. Here is a possiblity:

http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/computer_series.do?series_name=V2000_series&catLevel=2&category=notebooks/compaq_presario&storeName=computer_store


Any suggestions?
versello
19 Nov 2004, 12:52am
What are you going to be using it for?
oudiophile
19 Nov 2004, 12:56am
What are you going to be using it for?

About everything except gaming and DV editing/Photo editing. So school, programming (VB.Net, god help me), massive downloading/torrenting, etc.

I would prefer not to get a dell. Once, I did, and it never came, so I was all like :yell1: and they were all :bawling: and im all :shoot: and they were all :eek: and now im all :thumbsup:
oudiophile
19 Nov 2004, 3:07am
Hm, a WIDESCREEN Dell 700M from eBay is looking mighty tasty...
lordbean
19 Nov 2004, 4:10am
it's funny because you just said you'd prefer not to get a dell...
oudiophile
19 Nov 2004, 5:31am
i kinda meant id rather not buy from dell.
Zuntar
19 Nov 2004, 8:18pm
About everything except gaming and DV editing/Photo editing. So school, programming (VB.Net, god help me), massive downloading/torrenting, etc.

I would prefer not to get a dell. Once, I did, and it never came, so I was all like :yell1: and they were all :bawling: and im all :shoot: and they were all :eek: and now im all :thumbsup:

Nice use of smilies DoOd!
Loki047
19 Nov 2004, 9:17pm
www.pctorque.com .... solid computers
oudiophile
20 Nov 2004, 6:34pm
Wow. The Winbook C Series is incredibly well priced. I've also heard very good things about winbook. Anyone had any experience with them?
Loki047
21 Nov 2004, 6:22am
Link?
oudiophile
21 Nov 2004, 8:19pm
http://winbook.com/notebooks/c/c_overview.html
Loki047
22 Nov 2004, 8:12am
do u know those the manufacterer of it?
QCH
24 Nov 2004, 2:18pm
I manage over 500 PC's and I am the main Laptop guy. I suggest the Dell Latitude D505 or the Dell D800. I've bought over 20 laptop's over the past 2 years and never missed a one. But, I know, you rather not buy from Dell....

Either way, Intel Pentium M CPU with Intel's Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200 is a must... (that also qualifies the laptop to be labeled a Centrino™). Compaq (HP) has a few that are not bad... The one below is a Compaq V2000 (wide screen).
QCH
24 Nov 2004, 2:20pm
I had to trim the hard drive down to a 40 GB, WinXP HOME, and the less bright screen.... Saved a few bucks... Below is another version, but it's over the price you stated...
keto
24 Nov 2004, 5:40pm
I have a recent Toshiba, 1.6M, FX5200 mobile, 512 RAM, nice wide BRIGHT screen, seems to be well made and is fast. Might be a few bux over your budget but the Toshibas are worth a look.

I'm actually surprised the FX5200 is pretty reasonable. Doom3 is a slideshow but WOW beta ran real pretty and fast.
QCH
24 Nov 2004, 7:19pm
One note on Toshiba's... I've had a few stop in my office to get re-installed and these Toshiba's came with recovery CD's instead of a Windows install CD and a driver CD... No way to load another version of the operating system with out doing some research on drivers.... other than that, they do seem to be fairly peppy for the price...