New Laptop for Xmas

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10-05-2003, 02:15 PM
purewire

New Laptop for Xmas

I'm gonna have $1000 for a new laptop come Xmas time. I know it's a little early but I'm not up to speed on laptops. I require DVD/CDRW combo drive, 30GB or greater HDD, 10/100 LAN, and at least 256MB DDR. Any input would be very welcome. I will primarily use it for road trip movies and mp3 storage. I write short stories and poetry so I will also be writing whenever and wherever inspiration strikes me so battery life is an issue.

Newegg has a nice 2GHz Celeron Toshiba with a CDRW/DVD drive for about $900. Any good? I read the post about Toshibas not being too good.
10-05-2003, 06:32 PM
Vince0312

Re: New Laptop for Xmas

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Originally posted by purewire
I'm gonna have $1000 for a new laptop come Xmas time. I know it's a little early but I'm not up to speed on laptops. I require DVD/CDRW combo drive, 30GB or greater HDD, 10/100 LAN, and at least 256MB DDR. Any input would be very welcome. I will primarily use it for road trip movies and mp3 storage. I write short stories and poetry so I will also be writing whenever and wherever inspiration strikes me so battery life is an issue.

Newegg has a nice 2GHz Celeron Toshiba with a CDRW/DVD drive for about $900. Any good? I read the post about Toshibas not being too good.

I think that'd be the problem not because of the computer? I have my tablet pc for nearly a month and it works well(great performance too)

My recommendation is not taking celeron tho......... I'd say go for P-M(centrino) even paying few hundred bucks more. They give you double battery life at least
10-05-2003, 07:47 PM
melee

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Originally posted by Vince0312
I think that'd be the problem not because of the computer? I have my tablet pc for nearly a month and it works well(great performance too)

My recommendation is not taking celeron tho......... I'd say go for P-M(centrino) even paying few hundred bucks more. They give you double battery life at least

Thats what I was thinking,(about the centrino)

I dunno about a tablet PC for DVDs, Might have to prop it up.

Maybe a dell 600m, its 12k bit over your price but worth it:
http://www.dell.com/us/en/dhs/produc...inspn_600m.htm

The question is do you game? If you do at all go with the ati 9000m 64mb video card...
10-05-2003, 08:54 PM
purewire

I don't want a tablet, don't see the point although a centrino notebook does sound good. I still have time to look around but need some guidance as for what to look for.
10-06-2003, 01:48 PM
Vince0312

I'm just telling you that the toshiba's fine tho :)
Like all around my friends' laptop are toshiba(Perhaps there's clearance before the school starts? :P )

Btw I do see a point for getting centrino instead of the celeron....
I'm using the P3-M tho and only last 3hour and a half and waiting for my secondary battery arrival
There's always thing u have to do is slowing down the processor's speed when it's on battery life
10-06-2003, 07:07 PM
purewire

Yeah I was thinking about looking into something that can scale down when on battery. Mainly because when I'm writing all it has to do is run Windows, and Word, so I don't need any super fast cpu to do that.
10-06-2003, 07:55 PM
Vince0312

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Originally posted by purewire
Yeah I was thinking about looking into something that can scale down when on battery. Mainly because when I'm writing all it has to do is run Windows, and Word, so I don't need any super fast cpu to do that.

I'm doing the similar thing as you do for my tablet, I just turn on the journal and plug in the power point presentations and just write on it. I could hold it for around 3hour and a half or sometimes 3:50hour(by lowering the brightness) but I've long classes(3hours in row). That gives me lots of trouble that I need to keep plugged in another time.
So I'd say get a longer battery life is always better in this way. Spare doesn't hurt :)