Advice on new laptop
pigflipper
The Forgotten Coast Icrontian
I am in the market for a new laptop and I am way out of the loop; haven't owned a laptop since 2004.
My primary concern is that it be a moderate weight, have good battery life, cost under $1200 and a min. 14.5" screen.
Secondary concern is HDD space and gaming. I will be putting XP on this machine.
This is for school, so I don't need a super badass desktop replacement mobile gaming rig. I would like it to be able to play most games, but thats not too big of a concern since I will still have this system. I just need a laptop that I can take to class with me (hence the battery life requirement) and one that will last at least two years.
I have about a month before date of purchase, so any recommendations are greatly appreciated.
My primary concern is that it be a moderate weight, have good battery life, cost under $1200 and a min. 14.5" screen.
Secondary concern is HDD space and gaming. I will be putting XP on this machine.
This is for school, so I don't need a super badass desktop replacement mobile gaming rig. I would like it to be able to play most games, but thats not too big of a concern since I will still have this system. I just need a laptop that I can take to class with me (hence the battery life requirement) and one that will last at least two years.
I have about a month before date of purchase, so any recommendations are greatly appreciated.
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$1200 is pretty reasonable, you'll have a lot of options.
Ditto with the Dell notebooks. If the Levonos are still pricey look into the new Dell Latitudes. We got some in at work and let me tell you they are swaaaaaannnk. If you do a search on Engadget they wrote up their first impressions and they said the new Latidute is the first notebook to give the Levenos some competition.
So if I was you i'd pick between a Levono or a Dell Latitude. Both top notch. You get what you pay for
cheers
- be $999 or $1099
- be powered by more robust nvidia chipset (versus POS intel graphics)
- have a sleek case made from aluminum like the current MBPs
I think it would be a great option, but I know you're not much of a Mac guy :P
All I've ever had against Apple was the pricing and the user attitude. I've met enough Macheads to know that not ALL of you have the attitude, and if the pricing changes... who knows?
Also, where the hell are you hearing that Lenovo is good? They ruined the ThinkPad name and when multinational corporations start dropping them due to reliability problems, yeah, no dice.
Also, on the big screen thing, I don't have a problem with weight. My first laptop was a Dell Inspiron 7000 that weighed 9.1 lb with one battery and almost 11 lb with two batteries. My main concern with weight is that I am lazy.
Personal ownership and use.
And to second what thrax said, if lenovo had the x200 available I would have bought it. Very durable business machines.
btw, tablets are the future.
I have had bad fortune with Dell.
My latest is 15.4, Core2Duo, ATI 2600 GPU
It is a little heavy, but it does what I need.
As for the Lenovo, well, my personal experience and the experience of my family indicates that they are not the machine I have been hearing so much about.
I will be extremely active in school and school related activities, just as I am now. The reason for the gaming part is so that if I am on the road somewhere, I can jump into a game for 30 minutes to get a little stress relief.
Sorry I came off too strong on my first reply, I tend to do that sometimes; nothing personal was meant by that response.