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General Category => Software => Topic started by: ~ambience~ on December 04, 2006, 10:37:48 PM

Title: What's good to have in a laptop?
Post by: ~ambience~ on December 04, 2006, 10:37:48 PM

I'm thinking of buying a laptop on boxing day; haven't yet decided if I'm going to get one custom made, or buy one at future shop or some other store. I'm thinking about what the best things to have in it without going anywhere over $800 - $1000 Canadian. I've got a 3 Ghz windows box box running right now, and would like to know the best speed/type/company of processor is the best.  I would like to use it for school, so it would have to have 5-6 hrs battery time. Also, wireless internet is a must. Windows XP or later is also a must. I'm not worried about a large HDD capacity (40 GB will do). Mabey 512 MB - 1 GB of ram. Anybody have some thoughts / tips on that?

Title: What's good to have in a laptop?
Post by: darkimage888 on December 28, 2006, 02:08:01 AM

What exactly are you asking? I have a labtop, but it is 2 years old. It has a 60G Hard drive and it comes with wireless internet(gotta have the connection, obviously). Mine is a HP, and it has about 2 hrs of life, but  like I said, It is 2 years old.

Title: What's good to have in a laptop?
Post by: darkimage888 on January 07, 2007, 01:43:55 PM

Still there?

Title: What's good to have in a laptop?
Post by: Snowzak on January 07, 2007, 05:56:18 PM

Its portable? You'll get vista (even though you get it on comps)

Title: What's good to have in a laptop?
Post by: darkimage888 on January 07, 2007, 09:53:47 PM

Xp is good, but Vista is good too, lol.

Title: What's good to have in a laptop?
Post by: Magikal on January 22, 2007, 08:44:19 PM

Yea, vista must pwn I don't have though...at bestbuy in US I saw in a Sunday ad for a Toshiba, 120GB drive, 2 gigs of ram...very nice laptop, it was $1000 also.

Title: What's good to have in a laptop?
Post by: smittastical on February 06, 2007, 05:54:34 PM

nice