Cool new laptops

[gorby]

My bro is buying a latop, around 1500 max. We were lookin at this

asus laptop. Its quite small (A4) size, and looks pretty dave hot. I hate sony, and most of the convential ones are pretty boring, is there any where else i should be looking. (alienware looked cool but a bit pricey.)

 

[nick25]

Mate what does your bro want out of the laptop? Will it be his primary computer? If so games would struggle and that size screen could become tedious.

I personally believe laptops should be small like that and remain portable but I know a lot of people who buy them to replace their desktop machines.

 

[Phil Stanbridge]

I bought a Rock Xtreme Ti a few weeks back. Its insane.

3.6 P4

1GB 4200 memory

2 x 60GB 7200rpm drives in RAID (striped array)

256MB X800 Mobility (pci-e)

17" X-Glass screen

intergrated 7.1 High-Definition Audio, intergrated webcam

54G Wireless, Bluetooth

Its 5kg and batter lasts about an hour tops!

 

[Dazboots]

My bro is buying a latop, around 1500 max. We were lookin at this

asus laptop. Its quite small (A4) size, and looks pretty dave hot. I hate sony, and most of the convential ones are pretty boring, is there any where else i should be looking. (alienware looked cool but a bit pricey.)

look on www.evesham.co.uk

they have some very nice voyager lappys i bought the amd mobile 3400+

17 inch widescreen web cam 1 gig memeory 128 meg ati 9700 pro 60 gig hard drive.

and even has built in 5.1 speakers for about £1200.00

bargain...

 

[nick25]

Surely if you can't take it anywhere because it weighs a ton and thye battery lasts 5 mins you may as well buy a desktop?

 

[Minstadave]

Its quite nice to have the power of a desktop in something you can just throw in a bag and take to a mates or home from uni though.

 

[nick25]

spose...

 

[fatty]

Yesterday I bought my mrs a lappy its a HP NC4000 its an A4 lappy I was looking at the asus but £1300 for that one and the one I got her was only £530 its spec is:

• Intel Pentium M 1.5 GHz Processor
  
• 256 MB PC2100 DDR Memory
  
• 30 Gigabyte Hard Drive
  
• 12.1" XGA TFT Display and ATI Radeon Mobility Graphics with 32MB/64MB Memory
  
• Integrated AC'97 Audio
  
• v.92 56Kbps Modem, Gigabit Ethernet and Optional 802.11b/g or a/b/g Wireless
  
• Two USB 2.0 Ports
  
• 11" x 9.2" x 1.1" @ 3.5 lbs. (without MultiBay)
  
• Windows XP Pro Operating System
  

The wireless card wasn't included either but got a free bag and extended 3 year warranty

 

[Phil Stanbridge]

Surely if you can't take it anywhere because it weighs a ton and thye battery lasts 5 mins you may as well buy a desktop?

Thats why its called a "desktop replacement" mate.

 

[Master_G]

Can someone actually explain to me the idea of a DTR? I get the concept, i just dont see why, if you want a small good looking machine for a desk then a shuttle and LCD is great, so why get a laptop which limits your upgrades and power?

Im also looking for a laptop, but have set the limits that is has to weigh less than 3KG, have a battery life over 2 hours, and play games reasonably.

G

 

[nick25]

Can someone actually explain to me the idea of a DTR? I get the concept, i just dont see why, if you want a small good looking machine for a desk then a shuttle and LCD is great, so why get a laptop which limits your upgrades and power?

Thats basically what I was getting at.

 

[gorby]

Cool, great input cheers.

main uses for laptop will be a bit of photoshopping and some avid. So i guess its got to be pentium only, under 2.5 kg, 512 meg min.

I was looking at the alienware ones.... nice but a bit pricey, any one got exp with the asus ones? They look really cool and are spec'd just right. Im adverse to anything sony / apple.

Although ive nothing against the work laptops (HP, compaq etc) and they run linux a treat, (I got my gran an nc6000 with suse preinstalled ,) they are normally pretty ugly. I liked the shinyness off the asus ones..