Blackfox Posted March 18, 2006 Posted March 18, 2006 My mum's heading over to the USA in a few weeks. Its it worth her buying me a laptop over there and bringing it over in her hand luggage? How much would i be looking at saving? Now, the only disadvantage I can see are the fact that the power supply will be different. But that's easily changed by fitting a new plug. Anyothers that people can think of? Im inclined towards the AMD Turion range of processors. I've found these ones so far that I like the look of: HP Pavilion dv5020us Compaq Pesario v2565 and the Acer Aspire 5003 If anyone has any recommendations, critiques or ideas then I'd love to hear them all. Cheers.
Colin Posted March 18, 2006 Posted March 18, 2006 Do you need the laptop as a desktop replacement system, or are you going to be using it on the go aswell alot? Also, what kind of tasks will you be doing with it? Turion's are nice chips (because being future proof with 64bit n all), but they are nearly as bad as Pentium 4's in laptops............as in lame battery life.
Blackfox Posted March 18, 2006 Author Posted March 18, 2006 Its mainly so I can have a protable computer to myself, especially with uni looking near. Be useful for college too. It'll probably be a mixture of sitting on a desk or on my knee. Its main uses will be word processing, internet browsing, watching DVDs, music. I rarely game so that's not much of an issue - although it would be reassuring if it could play some decent games.
Pit-Jr Posted March 18, 2006 Posted March 18, 2006 if your mom can find a dell outlet, go with an xps, the quality is ace and since they dont go through retail, theyre a bit cheaper than the ones you mentioned. If your not gonna play games , get the the B120, its dirt cheap (550 USD) and the 1.4 (which i feared would be too slow) is actually very capable
pedrocasilva Posted March 18, 2006 Posted March 18, 2006 Its mainly so I can have a protable computer to myself, especially with uni looking near. Be useful for college too. It'll probably be a mixture of sitting on a desk or on my knee. Its main uses will be word processing, internet browsing, watching DVDs, music. I rarely game so that's not much of an issue - although it would be reassuring if it could play some decent games. Go for the lightest portable you find, don't go for a fancy graphics card at all, that always means it'll heat a lot... as for CPU... low voltage if available, but Pentium M is good... My laptops are always pretty hot and big because of those, I'm swearing never again after my Athlon 64 3000+ with a X700... from now on I want 12" screens ultra low voltage CPU's and crap integrated graphics cards.
McPhee Posted March 18, 2006 Posted March 18, 2006 nice laptop, i cant really recommend Acer though. The screen has snapped off my acer laptop, just through regular use for the 6 months since i bought it! And they wont collect it from uni halls so ive got to wait 2 weeks to send it off (i go home then). They may be cheap, high spec laptops, but they've not figured out how to reinforce a case properly yet
Bogbas Posted March 18, 2006 Posted March 18, 2006 Seems good enough, not for serious gaming though. I think that it'll run some q3 based games nicely, anything newer than that would probably not work very well. But don't use a laptop on your lap, it has a negative effect on your fertility.
pedrocasilva Posted March 18, 2006 Posted March 18, 2006 nice laptop, i cant really recommend Acer though. The screen has snapped off my acer laptop, just through regular use for the 6 months since i bought it! And they wont collect it from uni halls so ive got to wait 2 weeks to send it off (i go home then). They may be cheap, high spec laptops, but they've not figured out how to reinforce a case properly yet yeah, Acer is no good... I wouldn't buy one for me. But don't use a laptop on your lap, it has a negative effect on your fertility.It does? Yay! no more condoms!!! *goes get his laptop*
Babooo Posted March 19, 2006 Posted March 19, 2006 Well I recently got an Acer laptop and everything is going fine with it. It was really cheap but so far, no problems.
reaper673 Posted March 19, 2006 Posted March 19, 2006 Yeh, I had an acer as well- it was very porrly made. Flimsy, cheap and very breakable and after a year (a few days out of warranty) the DVD drive, battery and charger all broke. It had a good spec, but I would never buy an Acer again.
Bogbas Posted March 19, 2006 Posted March 19, 2006 It does? Yay! no more condoms!!! *goes get his laptop* And no more kids for you...
Blackfox Posted March 20, 2006 Author Posted March 20, 2006 I've decided against the popular advice and gone for an Acer :P I think I've set my heart on this model. The GFX card is lacking a bit, but im hoping the processor and RAM makes up for that. I'll probs be ordering from here. One of the cheapest prices for the best stats. Thanks for the help guys!
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