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Dell 700m or Sony S260

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yuhoo22

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I am looking to buy a laptop very soon. I would like to get something fairly light, with good battery life and the ability to play DVD movies. I would primarily be using it to surf the web, and do some office type applications. Most likely will not be playing games on it, but will be playing DVDs from time to time. The only real must I have is built in Wifi, and obviously the cheaper the better, but willing to spend up to $1500 total including tax.

Right now I have these two in mind....configured about the same the sony would cost $1299 + tax and the Dell would be about $1000 (with the $600 off $1599+ coupon they have, which is expiring tomorrow) If anyone else has a suggestion, please let me know.

Thanks.
 
Go for a Dell 700m. Sony laptops aren't all that, plus, with the extra spending money you can do what I did: get a 7200RPM Hitachi HD and a NEC-ND6500A Combo DVD burner. Lots of nice features for the money
 
Before you buy a 700m make sure you look at the screen size... I was really enamored with this model before I saw some 12inch laptops at BestBuy... too small! Its great for portability but a little too small for my taste...

I'd much rather have a 14" widescreen such as the HP dv1000 or the gateway m310(?)... Its about an inch larger on each side but a lot more screen space.

If you're dead set on the above two, I'd go with the Sony... THe 13" screeen is a bit small but it is VERY NICE looking.
 
The Sony is expensive, running close to $2000 in most configurations.
The dv1000 is a very nice model, a great bang for the buck. Crappy integrated graphics & no 7200RPM drive, but other than that great! 6-7 hours of battery life on avg w/the 12-cell battery, ~5 hours watching DVDs 😉 Can be had well equipped for under $1500 easily
 
I'd get the Sony S series but wait a little longer until they update it with the Sonoma Pentium M and Geforce Go 6200. nVIDIA PureVideo will do wonders for DVD playback, the 700m's integrated graphics will unnecessarily take up system memory, and the Sony Xbrite LCD is far superior to the "crystal clear" LCD Dell uses on the 700m.
 
Originally posted by: mdahc
I'd get the Sony S series but wait a little longer until they update it with the Sonoma Pentium M and Geforce Go 6200. nVIDIA PureVideo will do wonders for DVD playback, the 700m's integrated graphics will unnecessarily take up system memory, and the Sony Xbrite LCD is far superior to the "crystal clear" LCD Dell uses on the 700m.
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There will be a review on the new Sony FS series (With Sonoma) out at the website in my sig probably by the end of the week, latest. Should be very interesting 😀
 
Originally posted by: pannam1
Before you buy a 700m make sure you look at the screen size... I was really enamored with this model before I saw some 12inch laptops at BestBuy... too small! Its great for portability but a little too small for my taste...

I'd much rather have a 14" widescreen such as the HP dv1000 or the gateway m310(?)... Its about an inch larger on each side but a lot more screen space.

If you're dead set on the above two, I'd go with the Sony... THe 13" screeen is a bit small but it is VERY NICE looking.
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The keyboard is what I would like at if you plan to type a lot, or even just a little. 700m has too small keys for my fingers so I did not personally like it, or any other subportable for that matter.

 
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