Barebones Notebook Config...Opinions?

[newParadigm]

I'm quoting new rig for my friend who's starting college. He was gonna spend $1800 on a Dual Core PentM, but I told him I could do a single core for almost half, with similar graphics performance.

Specs:
Asus z71v Barebones Kit
GeForce 6600GO 64mbs RAM
15.4 WXGA LCD
Pentium M 1.75 GH
1 GB DDR2 PC4200 Ram (533mhz)
Hitachi 100 GB HDD
Samsung 8x DVD Burner

Hows it look?

 

[Leafblighter]

single core for almost half?? this is a $1200+ laptop that you have here. if you could somehow get a z71v for $900 bucks I'd sure as heck like to know what truck this fell off of.

P.S. They make this with a 64 mb vid card?? are you sure? when I bought mine a year ago all I had seen around was the 128 mb.....

 

[fbrdphreak]

IMO, if you're buying a new laptop, buy dual core.

For $1500 you can get a Lenovo N100 15.4" WSXGA+ 2GHz Core Duo 100GB 1GB XP Pro NVIDIA Go7300 Turbocache. That's a pretty good bang for the buck, just not as slick & sleek as the Asus. But it is well built and the screen is gorgeous.

EDIT Or for the same price as the Lenovo get an HP Pavilion dv5000t 15.4" WXGA BrightView 100GB 1GB 1.83GHz Core Duo XP Pro TV Tuner NVIDIA Go7400 128MB. The HP dv5000 series are pretty slick, you can see a review of the same chassis featuring an AMD processor here:
http://www.laptoplogic.com/reviews/detail.php?id=107

 

[newParadigm]

Originally posted by: Leafblighter
single core for almost half?? this is a $1200+ laptop that you have here. if you could somehow get a z71v for $900 bucks I'd sure as heck like to know what truck this fell off of.

P.S. They make this with a 64 mb vid card?? are you sure? when I bought mine a year ago all I had seen around was the 128 mb.....

I can get the z71v barbones kit for $550 from excaliburpc.com (link), and with all the other parts, it only coems to $1050.

 

[Sentinel]

IMHO I would go with a dual core machine at this time. Price/performance isn't that much.

Can get a decent dual core machine for sub $1500.