Ok, my mom finally gave in a little... I can get a laptop, but i have to research it and stuff. (I'll get the upgrades when I get around 300 again, should be soon) There is no limit, or I am told.. probably around 1,000 is the limit, but she didnt say... I want cheap, but not the cheapest one, so it wont break after 2 months... I want at least: 2ghz/+ or higher, AMD or Intel, whatever is better in laptops 1gb of RAM 80gb/+ hdd DVD burner Intigrated Wireless I will basically be using this for webdesign, photoshopping, and surfing the net. no gaming, ort at least nothing big... I am currently looking at Dell, Alienware, Toshiba, HP, and a few others if you can find a few ratings as well, that will help also.
try HP , not dell, dell is crap if your looking for a gamer machine go towards Alienware i recommend it
I'm not listening to you anymore... 1. Dell laptops are great, my cousin has one for school and its great. I agree the older Dell desktops were bad, but not the laptops... 2. I do not need a gaming system. READ 3. I need direct models, not 'try HP'.... grahhh, noobs please stay out of this unless you know what you are talking about, please..
trust me, at that price range you can't get much from alienware. Alienware ios a rip off Xmaster, look into fujitsu and acewr if you are looking for quality. I'll look for specific models.
I was just looking, I origonally wasnt gonna buy from them, but i wanted to see what they werte up to. overpriced as usual i see... <_< edit: was that acer, not acewr? here we go again, always looked at acers in my computer magazine.. yet i forgot about them...
Ide go wtih alienware they are reliable over priced yes but they are worth it....if not ide go with a dell they are good quality
Alienware is out of the question. Stop posting about it. sheesh, how many times am I going to say this....
Dell - XPS M140 http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/f...s=19&l=en&s=dhs Go there. I would recommend the "Productivity and Multimedia" option. I belive it meets your requirements, though i think you will have to customise it to add a DVD burner (it comes with a 24x CD burner, but no DVD burners). It comes in at $959. This fits your price range? I don't think you'll get it much cheaper (though don't quote me!). It runs Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005, if you were wondering. Good luck!
Dell inspiron 9400 (E1705) Dual core laptop, ultra fast, and its great. Ive had one for the past month, and its really, really good. Its got dual cores, and dual channal ram (DDR2). Overall I would DEFINATELY reccomend that laptop PS - to the guy who said dell laptops are bad, you obviously dont know what your talking about. Dell laptops are great, and are very reliable...some desktops can be kinda crappy tho.
acer america ftw: if you can push your mom $200 more, id get this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16834115223 it's got a 1.66 Ghz Processor Core Duo, big plus in my book, i'd take that over any 2Ghz pentium M (if there was one) for $974 you can get a AMD turion 1.8Ghz http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16834115328 The Acer Laptop that have a 2 Ghz are outragous, and so are most companies 2 Ghz laptops, ranging around $2000 and a few more: now that i see, there are two laptops with 1.66 Ghz Core Duo, one is $1100:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16834115227 other is $1200:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16834115223 only real differnce with them that i can really see is the video card, one having shared memory, the other having a Radeon X1400 with 124 mb. Since you not really in this for the gaming, i would take the cheaper one. the cheaper one also comes with WIN XP PRO compared to the $1200 one having WIN XP HOME. Merged Post: good laptop... for its price of course. i would definally tell him to get that or the 2.0 Ghz Acer if he had that much $$$ to spend.
@ ale- its a 24x cd-r/rw and dvd combo... and if it has XP Home, I can always wipe the disk and load on Pro...
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/p...s=19&l=en&s=dhs Try this one its right at a thousand dollars, it has a nice sized screen, It has an intel duel core prossesor, a good graphics card, its durable(incase little kids get a hold of it), and it comes with windows Xp.
err, the acer 1.66 Core Duo for $1100 is definally a better buy. the 1.66 Core for the dell is SOLO, rather then duo. the dell's standard hard drive is 60 GB compared to the 100 GB Acer. To upgrade the dell to a 100 GB is at least +$60 to $1000. Then the standard memory for the dell is 512, to upgrade that to 1 gb would be +$80. Overall, you can definally see the better by, plus the acer is from Neweeg (gg ) so for the dell to match the acer's memory and hard drive space alone you would need to tack on at least +$120 to $1000 = $1120, and considering the Dell's processor is a single core, i'd definally get the Core Duo.
