best place?

Post by **Sniper62** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 6:20 pm

to buy a laptop? its for som1 they arent going to game with it or anything so somthing in the $400-$600?

Reddog · Post by **Reddog** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 6:26 pm

dell.com laptops starting at 399.00

Kizmet · Post by **Kizmet** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 7:36 pm

Sniper,

Talk to one of us before you purchase the laptop though. Laptops don't have the same throughput of desktops and there are some tricks to speed things up.

OK I see you want bargan priced. You'll most likely have shared ram video so first priority is to buy more ram. Any cash left, speed up your hard drive.

Post by **Sniper62** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:34 pm

http://www.newegg.com?

1gb RAM
7200 RPM HD

is that basicly the thing to get? does is matter about brand? Dell, AlienWare, Sony, Toshiba?

trevor8 · Post by **trevor8** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:43 pm

Alienware = OVERPRICE!

Reddog · Post by **Reddog** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 4:03 pm

well of course i'd recommend toshiba, but yeah centrino proc for intel and i ain't sure what amd has but yeah 1gb memory and 7200 rpm hdd, but the 7200 rpm is gonna probably be the biggest chunk of change..

Kizmet · Post by **Kizmet** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 4:27 pm

I'm a dell man myself. Had the most luck with them, however, I've only used high end dells. We have some midrange at work that are decent.

As for the hard drive, don't forget now, eitaher a 7200 RPM IDE Drive or a 7200 RPM SATA drive. The SATA is by far the fastest out there in a laptop configuration. SATA is 150 Megabyte throughput and the SATA II drives are 300 Megabyte throughput. What you'll see in IDE on laptops will either be ATA 100 or 133 which is burstable to 100 or 133 megabit a second. The SATA drives are comprable in price now to IDE drives and the slowest SATA drive beats the hell out of the fastest IDE drive.

Mako · Post by **Mako** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 2:50 am

newegg