Re: Difficulty deciding on a mid-priced laptop


"i'm good" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'm having trouble deciding on a laptop to purchase, not having
> owned one or barely used one before.
> I decided I didn't want a widescreen because I do a lot of work on a
desktop
> computer, including programming, graphics, web page design, playing 3d
> games.
> I looked at a widescreen one and found that I couldn't set it at a 4:3
ratio
> satisfactorily,
> it wanted to crop the screen, rather than use the full height, 1024X768 on
a
> 1280X800 screen,
> let alone 800X600 which is a small square.
>
> What I want is:
> 15" screen, hopefully one that looks bright or crisp or something
> 1.73 M processor (reasonable choice considering my price range)
> 60g hard drive at least
> hard drive with 5400 rpm would be good
> 512 or more RAM, preferably DDRII, but accept that DDR RAM is used often,
> regardless of chipset
> Graphics card, the difficult part, I read that shared graphics memory is
not
> satisfactory, not reaching the ability
> of a basic video card, but I may accept the latest Intel shared type,
> definitely not the out of date, 'extreme graphics'.
>
> I've abandoned HP 6120 (part number 135) because it has no graphics card,
> and uses DDRI, and not a great battery life and ordinary screen.
> With the Toshiba Tecra S2, I read a bad review that complained about it's
> noise and heat and low battery life.
> The Fujitsu Lifebook C1320 is acceptable for a variety of reasons, but I
> don't want widescreen, and it has not graphics
> card, and the screen might look a bit plain. It has the latest RAM and
Hard
> Drive, so I might want it if it came in 15".
>
> I'm in Australia, so some models might vary.
>
> ig

I have a Toshiba Tecra M2V and am happy with it.

Howard


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