Cheapest Way to get a Laptop

[LordPhoenix]

Hi,

What do you think would be the cheapest way to get an AMD 2500 - 2600+ , Mobile Radeon 9600, Hard Drive, etc? Would it be cheaper BUILDING one or BUYING one?

I've heard that BUILDING laptops was a hassle. Do you guys know any good places to buy Laptops?

 

[jpeyton]

hpshopping.com

dell.com

Or check our your local Circuit City, Best Buy, or Fry's.

Building laptops is a PITA.

 

[Lyfer]

gigabuys.com, and click on the dell outlet store for some good refurb machines.

 

[FishTankX]

Call me oldfashioned, but even if 2/2 of my desktop rigs are AMD, I really wouldn't use AMD in a notebook, short of a desktop replacement.

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

i agree, 5 AMD based computer in my home, however i still won't buy an AMD laptop unless the price was amazing.

i'm interested in seeing how cool the new 90nm AMD64s run now though.

 

[DaveSimmons]

XP is teh debbil

If you're buying a cheap laptop, many of the intel-based ones use a desktop P4 or celeron processor, so a mobile athlon XP is at least as good of a choice, an a64 processor could be better.

. . . Mobile Radeon 9600 . . .

Unfortunately this raises the cost way up, you can find basic laptops with slow motherboard graphics for $700, but for a mobile 9600 expect to spend at least $1,000

If this is for lan parties or to stay in a dorm room, a cube desktop PC (Shuttle, Asus Aria, etc.) would be cheaper and would let you put in a better graphics card like a 9800 Pro.

 

[Corporate Thug]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=1352756&highlight_key=y&keyword1=compaq

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: shady06
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=1352756&highlight_key=y&keyword1=compaq

Nice prices, though a Compaq with 128MB Radeon 9600 runs $1200.

 

[dkozloski]

If somehow you are tempted to buy something from Bubba and Leroy down behind the pool hall look out for BIOS passwords.

 

[Ryoga]

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