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$500 budget, any good choices out there?

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theGlove

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main use: for travelling and processing video conversion (ie, converting my camera video avi files to a smaller size). also the occasional gaming to play WoW.

thanks
 
For $500, you arent going to be able to find much. You may want to check the FS/T Forum here to see if anyone is selling one used, and alos check ebay. You might consider picking up a end of run iBook, it will be able to run WoW no problem, and handle the video conversion pretty well. A drawback would be that it wouldnt be dualcore.
 
thanks, well i was looking at the hot deals forums and I see all these laptops for like $499 (acers, etc) and so i thought they might be able to play WoW, but looks like they dont have a good enough vid card in them. Well I will keep looking
 
Bear in mind that my grandfathers pocket watch can run WoW (ok, maybe not, but the idea is there) it really does not take a whole lot in terms of power in order to run it.

Where you will need oomph (at least for time reduction) is for the video encoding. You won't need a good graphics card (check my sig, I use that machine on a daily basis for a whole range of tasks including weekly ripping/encoding/converting of DVDs). However, I do have a dual core processor, and that helps quite a bit.
 
You should keep your eyes open for some back-to-school sales - Staples and Office Depot typically have something in your price range that won't suck too badly.
 
hey all well there's a deal with dell vostro 1400 for $599 right now:

Vostro 1400
Intel® Core? 2 Duo T5470 (1.6GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB)
14.1 inch Wide Screen XGA LCD Display
1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz, 2 DIMM
120G 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
8X CD/DVD Burner w/ double-layer DVD+R write capability
128MB NVIDIA® GeForce? 8400M GS

what do you guys think of this laptop? I'm planning on runing win xp on it. this card looks like it should play games ok
 
Originally posted by: theGlove
hey all well there's a deal with dell vostro 1400 for $599 right now:

Vostro 1400
Intel® Core? 2 Duo T5470 (1.6GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB)
14.1 inch Wide Screen XGA LCD Display
1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz, 2 DIMM
120G 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
8X CD/DVD Burner w/ double-layer DVD+R write capability
128MB NVIDIA® GeForce? 8400M GS

what do you guys think of this laptop? I'm planning on runing win xp on it. this card looks like it should play games ok
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That should have no problems running WoW, and if anything it'll be memory limited. The Vostro line is supposingly very good from what I've heard; none of the cr@p software that usually comes pre-installed. If you can bear the horrendous looks of the laptop it's a good deal.
 
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