Cheapest New Laptop, Where?

[nanokooshball]

Where's the cheapest laptop I can buy?
Are there any $400 Celeron M laptops anywhere anymore? I remember there are sales sometiems where they reach this low... my dad's just looking for one soon, any info would be appreciated

[kpxgq]

dell.com b-series laptops

or goto spoofee.com and search for laptop.. sometimes Acer/Compaq releases a $400 AR

[PCJ]

There was a HP/Compay notebook for $400 on black friday, too bad you missed that...

[pwain]

if you dont mine used you would probabbly have a better selection. Otherwise I would just check dell/compaq/hp for periodic deals

[nanokooshball]

okay i was looking at some compaq laptops and i found this one

Link (http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/computer_series.do?series_name=V2000Z_series&catLevel=2&category=notebooks/compaq_presario&storeName=computer_store)

is it a good price for $550?

I was going to upgrade:

$45.... Sempron to AMD Turion(TM) 64 ML-32 (1.8GHz/512KB L2 Cache)
(is this cpu upgrade even worth it?)
$50 for DVD/CD-R combo

so that gets up to $640

is it worth it to go for 5400 rpm harddrive? for $50 more? And how much battery life do you get with turions vs the pentium-ms

[nanokooshball]

or is this better?

http://www.netaffilia.com/ad/electronics/frys/i/2006/01/18/14829.html

[nanokooshball]

how much worse is the battery life of the turion 64 vs a celeron M?

and how much performance difference between an M370 Celeron vs a Turion64 ML-32 (1.8ghz 512kb)

also are there ANY cheep celeron Ms with ATI x200 express? or do they only come wtih Intel Media 900? seems like only the AMD ones come with the x200s for under $600...

[kpxgq]

how much worse is the battery life of the turion 64 vs a celeron M?

and how much performance difference between an M370 Celeron vs a Turion64 ML-32 (1.8ghz 512kb)

also are there ANY cheep celeron Ms with ATI x200 express? or do they only come wtih Intel Media 900? seems like only the AMD ones come with the x200s for under $600...



Turion's get alot better battery life than Celeron M... the Celeron M lacks the Pentium-M's SpeedStep and therefore runs 100% vcore all the time... a Turion MT can get nearly the same battery life as a Pentium-M and a Turion ML gets respectable battery life

i dont know about the performance difference between Celeron Ms and the Turions

[PCJ]

Also, be sure to get the Turion MT. It's only like $5 more, and it has much better battery saving techniques, similar to Celery M vs P-M.

[nanokooshball]

Also, be sure to get the Turion MT. It's only like $5 more, and it has much better battery saving techniques, similar to Celery M vs P-M.

i cant seem to find the MT in any of those deals.... anyone able to direct me?