17" Display Notebooks?

[Radiohead]

Aside from Apple's Powerbook, what other notebooks have a 17" display.

I've been able to find only 2 others: Toshiba Satellite P25 Series & Acer Aspire 1700

Are there any others out there?

 

[Yomicron]

Sager NP4760 series

 

[Flashram]

HP Pavillion zd7001us

 

[Gibson486]

Gateway announced one months ago, but we have yet to see it. I am pretty sure Dell has one under wraps. I saw a 17 incher in the best buy ad the ither day, but i forgot what brand it was.

 

[sswany]

The one at Best Buy is a 17" Toshiba. P-something-507. There is also a 607 that is making it's way to the stores also.

 

[Radiohead]

Originally posted by: sswany
The one at Best Buy is a 17" Toshiba. P-something-507. There is also a 607 that is making it's way to the stores also.

That would be the Toshiba P25 Series that I mentioned

 

[JackHawksmoor]

Apple's 17"er looks great and has a great keyboard. That Toshiba 17" one looks dorky in pictures, but actually seems nice in person, and has a pretty nice keyboard too. Just wish it had a Geforce 5600/Radeon 9600 instead of its Geforce 5200

 

[Radiohead]

Originally posted by: JackHawksmoor
Apple's 17"er looks great and has a great keyboard. That Toshiba 17" one looks dorky in pictures, but actually seems nice in person, and has a pretty nice keyboard too. Just wish it had a Geforce 5600/Radeon 9600 instead of its Geforce 5200

Yeah I really like the look/weight of Apple's 17" Powerbook, but this laptop will be for some end users who can barely operate a PC... so kinda reluctant to give them an Apple.

 

[addragyn]

Originally posted by: Radiohead

Yeah I really like the look/weight of Apple's 17" Powerbook, but this laptop will be for some end users who can barely operate a PC... so kinda reluctant to give them an Apple.

I'm getting an Apple for an older relative for precisely the opposite reason. I think it's easier for a complete noob to use and I don't want to maintain anymore boxen anymore than I have to. As someone once said why they hated working on other people's computers.

I expect the Bonzi monkey to ride Gator across the screen, yipping at messenger spam popping up every few minutes, all while norton bloatware 2003 is running every possible scan it can every 3 minutes.

What you can't download can't hurt you!

 

[Radiohead]

Originally posted by: addragyn

Originally posted by: Radiohead

Yeah I really like the look/weight of Apple's 17" Powerbook, but this laptop will be for some end users who can barely operate a PC... so kinda reluctant to give them an Apple.

I'm getting an Apple for an older relative for precisely the opposite reason. I think it's easier for a complete noob to use and I don't want to maintain anymore boxen anymore than I have to. As someone once said why they hated working on other people's computers.

I expect the Bonzi monkey to ride Gator across the screen, yipping at messenger spam popping up every few minutes, all while norton bloatware 2003 is running every possible scan it can every 3 minutes.

What you can't download can't hurt you!

Wish I knew someone with a Powerbook so I could get a feel first hand how "different" it would be to use compared to a PC notebook.

The other factor is that these end users using it will be travelling and for all support issues it would come back to me, so I have to sufficient enough to service one blind...

 

[addragyn]

Well I had one that is now being used as a mobile editing station now. One of the best notebook keyboards I've ever used and fantastic sound nad oh that screen. I'm not a gamer but I played UT2k3 for hours on that thing. Very nice hardware.

I was comfortable on 10.2 in 2 days. I've had noobs and PC using folks pick the thing up and go to town. So touches were so simple as to be almost deceptive. OS X seems to serve noobs and advanced users very well. It's the intermediates who seem to have the most trouble with the change.

For support there are commercial products like Apple Remote Desktop, and Timbuktu. You also have open source stuff like Fugu, VNC, and of course god ol SSH.

 

[Radiohead]

Thanks for the info addragyn