dad wants to buy a laptop

[Antoneo]

T4x or a light Dell (minimum 600m) gets my vote.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: JackBurton
I've tested the Dell D600, D800, m60, and X300. I LOVE the X300. SUPER light (weighs ~3lbs) and 7hr+ battery life with the extended battery. I would HIGHLY recommend the X300 with the media base and a DVD±RW drive. It comes with a 1.4GHz processor (low votage processor) and I'd get 1GB of memory to go with it (get the memory at Crucial). AWESOME laptop and super light.

Note: This laptop is geared more toward mobilty, so if you are planning to do some hardcore gaming, this isn't the laptop for you.

sounds good man, i forgot to say and i really should of said this before, he works on a oil rig in the gulf, so weight is a key area, as he can only take what basically amounts to hand luggage with him

 

[JE78]

what about HP? I've been looking at laptops the last few week but haven't heard anything about them in this forum?

 

[biostud]

I have a hp nc4000 and is very happy about it, no CD-drive though.

 

[dullard]

I pretty much disagree with almost everything you said.
[*]Centrino is what I'd recommend. We agree here.
[*]Don't get the top speed available. For example, going from the 2.13 GHz 770 to the 2.0 GHz 760 will save ~$300 for an unnoticible 6% speed difference. It isn't like 6% will make the laptop last any longer. Heck you could say the same thing about dropping one more notch.
[*]512 MB is probably ideal.
[*]For buisness software, he'll probably never use more than 8 GB. Why pay $100 more for 70 GB of space that will sit empty forever?
[*]Why spend all the money on a graphics card that will go unused forever?
[*]CDRW is pretty much standard. But if a DVD is available, it is often cheaper, and if he doesn't burn CDs it will be much more useful. Sometimes it is nice to pop in a DVD on a month long business trip.
[*]If he doesn't want to spend much, why recommend a computer that costs double of what an unnoticibly slower computer costs?