New laptop

[ThunderJam]

Needa get a laptop in the next few months for school next year...

 

I'm looking for:

 

Under 6.5 lbs

14+ screen

3+ hours battery life

Under $2000

and of course powerful, plan on doing graphic work, some 3d gaming, and ill be in comp.sci.

 

Suggestions? Also i dont keep real up to date on specs, but im thinking 2gb ram, and at least 100gb hard drive on this?

 

Been looking at this sony vaio fz line, looks pretty good, but half the ppl say it has good battery life, and the other half say it has bad battery life :/

[★ CRe]

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/con...DWHF1&s=dhs

 

Maybe this guy?

[★ Purge]

My laptop's specs are 18" widescreen, 100GB HDD, 1GB RAM, 287MB NVidia GeForce Go 6150 video card, and around 5 lbs. It cost about $1000, which was a bargain last year when I bought it. The battery runs for a good 3 hours before depleting using Power Save mode, so the battery isn't too dependable. It is a HP Pavilion dv9410us notebook PC (quite popular among college students, actually). You should definitely buy a smaller screen since you want a good battery life (the 3 hours on mine are mainly due to the high end video demands, so my laptop acts as my school desktop).

 

Since you're a comp sci major I'm guessing you'd want a relatively mobile notebook, so just go with a smaller version of my laptop if you like that setup. Computers are really customizable nowadays, anyway, so you shouldn't have much trouble.

 

Oh, and do not get Vista OS. My laptop randomly freezes because of Vista.

[★ CRe]

Oh, and do not get Vista OS. My laptop randomly freezes because of Vista.

 

Yeh, Vista is a peice of !@#$%^&*.

[rootbear75]

i'll see what i can get from my school (might be able to get u a nice discount)

[ThunderJam]

Oh i plan on dual booting XP and a still undecided linux distro

 

edit: holy... that xps you posted cre has 320Gb harddrive by default

Edited May 3, 2008 by ThunderJam

[Resol]

XPS, ultiamte laptop.

 

Down fails are that they are heavy as all !@#$%^&*, but they will do virtual anything you need and/or want.

[X`terrania]

XPS, ultiamte laptop.

 

Down fails are that they are heavy as all !@#$%^&*, but they will do virtual anything you need and/or want.

 

Why is the weight limit 6.5lbs and below anyways

[ThunderJam]

cuz ill be carrying it everywhere since most my classes will be comp related after freshman year... id take a lil over 6.5, def not higher than 7 though

[Sass]

the large oversized screens (+15) are making laptops more like walking around with a 1/2 thin-sized pc tower. too much. i'd still go with the latest addage: smaller is bigger when it comes to computers.

[rootbear75]

Macbook Air FTW

[ThunderJam]

the mac air is re!@#$%^&*ed. Anyway s!@#$%^&*, I want a 14 inch screen though, so light, but... not like a tiny one

[★ candygirl]

http://www.mdg.ca/en/products/notebooks/durabook/

[rootbear75]

the mac air is re!@#$%^&*ed.

i know rofl... thats why i said it <_<

[★ CypherJF]

Oh, and do not get Vista OS. My laptop randomly freezes because of Vista. <_<

 

Yeh, Vista is a peice of !@#$%^&*.

 

Do you even have Vista? I have it running on a desktop and laptop without any problem. Sure, it might be a little out of tune (ie: too many services/"features" enabled) straight out of the box, but all windows releases are like that. Been playing Half Life 2/CoD4/Continuum without any problem.

[★ Purge]

Well, both my roommate and my laptops freeze and we both have Vista. The freezing is more common when we use the touch pad and not the wired mouse.

[rootbear75]

Well, both my roommate and my laptops freeze and we both have Vista. The freezing is more common when we use the touch pad and not the wired mouse.

on my laptop, explorer just crashes when it feels like it.

[★ CypherJF]

Strange; like I said no problems here, touch pad or not. :-/

[Confess]

Dont buy dell. Not if you want a laptop to last longer then 1 year.

[★ CypherJF]

Dont buy dell. Not if you want a laptop to last longer then 1 year.

 

Bought the same desktop and laptop from dell last year; both are working like a charm - so far little w/ being a little over a year.

 

I'm hoping Dell turned its act around when Michael Dell became CEO again.

[X`terrania]

lol, your computers are all breaking because u dont care for them and you let limewire porn viruses ravage ur computer.

 

my friend's dell just broke on friday

[★ Purge]

I take care of my laptop quite well. It actually started to freeze when it came right out of the box.

[★ candygirl]

do what i do "every year i reformat my h/d it keeps my pc running good. and i have it cleaned inside.

Well the cleaning part i do every month. lol

Edited May 4, 2008 by candygirl

[🜲 Samapico]

My PC was making weird noises lately... like the fans would go TOP SPEED even if NOTHING was running. But it wasn't crashing at all. So I thought the air vents were probably dusty... So I open it up, and yeah the front panel was all cluttered with dust. I clean that up... Few hours later, computer suddenly shut down while playing Diablo 2... Well, the computer was still powered, but the screen was off, and the fans were going from slow, very slow, very fast, fast, etc. when I tried to turn it back on. Weird stuff. I open it up again, check the connections... power it up... it works. But after that, it crashed 3 times, several hours apart, while the computer was idle... same type of crash, screen is off, no response from anything, but rebooting worked.

 

I think my computer LIKED to be covered in dust lol. It was probably pissed off that I screwed with its environment...

 

Anyway... I got scared that my computer blew up a couple of times :/

[★ candygirl]

type of crash, screen... the one that tells you it shut down your pc to save your h/d?