Re: Difficulty deciding on a mid-priced laptop
- From: Matthew Carrick <matthew.carrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:24:04 -0500
"i'm good" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:430fdd2c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> 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 definitely not the out of date, 'extreme graphics'.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
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Fujitsu N3010 - if serious gaming is to be done GET A LAPTOP COOLER
or the ATI video will fry - other than that caveat it's a great machine.
MSC
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