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dont need it for much

just typing / net / TV out... would like to play a few half decent games on it, but nothing to new

but, i know fuck all about laptops.... soooo what sort of price tag am i looking at and anything else i need to know (like wtf is intel pentium M)

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/product ... l=en&s=dhs

^_^

rawr

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/product ... l=en&s=dhs

Lawyer friends wife has one of these.. was setting stuff up for her yesterday on it.. Tell you what, its one slick little laptop, and its not half bad on price..

forget that, get a mac

Dave wrote:forget that, get a mac

True as well.. Mac laptops own.

And they can run windows now.

I have this laptop:

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/product ... l=en&s=bsd

Nicely portable and good battery life. Not a game machine at all.

you can get fucked, this is so i can watch porn in bed

If I could afford one I'd get an Intel Powerbook. They rock. They're about the only Apple product I'd buy, aside from the iPod.

Yep, mac book is the way to go now that you can install xp on it. No more excuses!

Dave wrote:forget that, get a mac

Mebbe. But Mac notebooks are plain fat (heavy)

i.e Their lightest 12" notebook is at least 4.6 pounds

For comparison, the Panasonic Y5 has a bigger screen, 14", builtin optical, and weighs in at 3.3 pounds.

Mac = FAT

12" powerbooks (made out of metal, mind you) weighed 4.6 pounds back in the day when the lightest plastic PC was 6. Apple has always been a leader in laptop portability

indeed. if you dont have the strength to carry a powerbook, you've got serious problems.

Imagine if apple takes it's ipod nano thinking (minus the scratchable screen) and applies it to the ibook replacement. Panasonic won't know what hit it

Out of personal experience, the IBM/Lenovo series of laptops have proven to be the most durable laptops I've ever dealt with.

They do come with a higher price tag at times, but I find it to be very worth it.

Dave wrote:12" powerbooks (made out of metal, mind you) weighed 4.6 pounds back in the day when the lightest plastic PC was 6. Apple has always been a leader in laptop portability

LOL. My point is that THEY STILL WEIGH 4.6 pounds (note: thats their lightest one - the rest are heavier).

The Dell in the link earlier is 4.1 pounds.
The IBM T Series notebooks also 14" are 4.5 pounds as compared to the same weight but the Apple 12" screen.

Apples are probably the current world losers in portability.

maybe it's different in the states. you'd have to some sort of arty knob to buy a mac over here.

got a few ibm thinkpads at work that've always been good. the screen went on one of them and ibm sent a guy out to fix it who knew his shit and had it replaced and up and running in no time.

got a few dells too, and while the build quality's not totally amazing, they're more than good enough for everyday use (and fairly cheap).

would be a bit wary of hp or acer, but only on support and build quality, the machines themselves are fine otherwise.

4days wrote:maybe it's different in the states. you'd have to some sort of arty knob to buy a mac over here.

Arty knob or ... be female - most Mac owners I know (in Amsterdam) are girls.

The new powerbooks are slick, but perhaps not the price range you're considering.

What kind of games are we talking about, good sir?

I love this great quote on the Lenovo site:

"Highly portable ThinkPad T Series notebooks start at about 1" thin"

I wonder who started that 1" thin thing? Apple? Noo...

Their 4.5 lbs spec "includes battery and optional travel bezel instead of standard optical drive in Ultrabay™ modular bay." In other words, they take out the optical drive and measure the weight with a piece of plastic covering the hole.

The dell is weighed with the 4 cell Li battery, which means it will last about an hour and a half not plugged in speaking from personal experience. Lets put a larger battery in it and remeasure. Plus it has a 12" screen. Wide or not, lets not forget Apple started the widescreen laptop ball rolling too.

As far as the Panasonic box goes... just because it's the current weight leader, doesn't mean it's the greatest, it just means it's the latest. You don't expect technology to stand still since the time Apple intro'd the first titanium powerbooks. Their form factor, or it's popularity, haven't changed much since then

apple 12" powerbook coming sometime in the next quarter.

if it's win bootable, winner....

brisk wrote:Yep, mac book is the way to go now that you can install xp on it. No more excuses!

have they actually fixed all the problems with that now?

mad wrote:

brisk wrote:Yep, mac book is the way to go now that you can install xp on it. No more excuses!

have they actually fixed all the problems with that now?

....apple just up and released their own solution to do it. It's currently beta, but it works for most people. A few deficiencies like the camera not having a driver for it, should be remedied when they come out of beta.

Mac all the way. I love my 17" Powerbook.