Where To Buy A Laptop?


Mark

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I've only ever owned the PC I currently use and I'm not so hot at the hardware side of things.

I've been thinking about buying a laptop for a while, for work, roms and programming.

Can anyone suggest a good retailer that sells them for a decent price? The specs don't have to be great (This computer has NO cd writer etc. and a 3GB hardrive; and it's only about 6 months back I upgraded from 32MB of RAM) but it's gotta be semi-decent.

So if anyone knows a good place, or even if you have one you wish to sell, let me know.
 
You only want to use Roms, Microsoft Office-programms and Coding software ? Than you dont need a very expensive laptop. If you want to Game with it, it could be much expensiver
 
You only want to use Roms, Microsoft Office-programms and Coding software ? Than you dont need a very expensive laptop. If you want to Game with it, it could be much expensiver

You'd have to spend stupid money to get a laptop with real gaming ability - it would also weigh a ton, have poor battery life and mess up your fertility with all that heat it produces being routed straight through your testicles.

If you can you also want to avoid a laptop which has a desktop processor sitting inside it for all the above reasons. Just email the company you are buying from to make absolutely sure of what your getting.

Laptops are still largely sold on their clockspeed and a lot of places will tell you the speed, the price and not a whole lot else.
 
wouldn't usually say it, but dude, get a dell!

their prices seem to be perpetually falling, check out their website.

o, just remembered, time also do very cheap computers, they advertise all over the place.

probably your best bet is to go to your local wh smiths and get hold of a magazine called micro mart, full of great prices that thing!
 
Watch the size of the laptop.
I only like 2lb laptops, otherwise you just carry around a large brick.

There is a cheap $866 laptop (1ghz mobile) that weighs in at 2.9lbs, at www.sub300.com , and it has a lot of nice features. If you want uber gaming, go buy a brick or a desktop.
 
I decided to upgrade to a laptop a month ago (my compaq presario desktop had given me 6 years service!) mainy due to me moving out of home and needing the space. for £799 i got a compaq R3000, 2.8 ghz, 40gb harddriveand cd/dvd rewriter from pc world. as for gaming, i only tried a demo of xiii so far but it ran fine, i dont expect to be playing doom 3 though.
 
You can buy 49% stock in my laptop (P233, 3GB HD, 32MB RAM) for only $50!!! I can always vote myself CUO (Chief Using Officer) and use it for the rest of the year, but you would still "own" 49% of my laptop!
 
Get an old IBM coprate(sp) laptop, I can get them for about £250, they are good for what you want but don't expect to play games on them.
 
You'd have to spend stupid money to get a laptop with real gaming ability - it would also weigh a ton, have poor battery life and mess up your fertility with all that heat it produces being routed straight through your testicles.

If you can you also want to avoid a laptop which has a desktop processor sitting inside it for all the above reasons. Just email the company you are buying from to make absolutely sure of what your getting.

Laptops are still largely sold on their clockspeed and a lot of places will tell you the speed, the price and not a whole lot else.

In some ways my laptop has more gaming power then my desktop with Intel Pentium-M 1.4GHz (comparable to a 2.2GHz P4), 768MB of RAM (upgraded with a 512MB chip since Dell's RAM prices are insane) and ATI Radeon 9600 Mobile w/ 32MB on-chip (make sure you get on-chip!). Also weighs about ~5 lbs, all for $1100. Pretty nice for a gaming machine + standard laptop.

In fact, until I upgraded my desktop to 1GB of RAM, this laptop WAS my best gaming machine. I love the Pentium-M architecture, it's soooo much better then Pentium 4 (which was made just to get higher clockspeeds).
 
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