Good Laptop for a School

[imported_Stin]

Im looking to buy a laptop for a school, needs to be less than $1000 out the door and have a fair sized screen. Wireless/DVD. Speed isnt much of a consideration neither are games. Good battery life is a plus. Solid construction a plus.

So far ive kinda been looking at the Dell 600m, any other suggestions?

 

[uOpt]

A few months back I bought a Thinkpad R40 with 1400x1050 screen and 1.3Ghz Pentium-M for $1000. Sounds about what you would need.

 

[imported_Stin]

I cant find any R series thinkpads that I can get for a 1000 out the door. Everytime I price one out with any decent accessories it comes out to something around 1300.

 

[Frightcrawler]

http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?productId=87901
2&storeId=1&langId=-1&categoryId=2585862&dualCurrId=73&catalogId=-840

 

[imported_Stin]

heh that link doesnt work

 

[uOpt]

I had to ebay it, but it was new.

The thing is that there are leftover stocks of new R40s with the 1.3 GHz CPU, which is plenty fast, IMHO, but of course those are not in regular production and sales anymore.

I ended up not being impressed with my seller on ebay, but I supposed calling IBM directly might work better than not.

 

[screwd01]

look at the compaq v2000 or HP dv1000...the same pretty much...got my hp with 14" widescreen, dvdburner, media remote, centrino, 1.7M for about 1300...get options to fit your needs and it should be under 1 grand...the batter lasts about 4 hours with wireless....
theres also a review for it on anandtechs mobile section

 

[imported_Stin]

any other suggestions?

 

[RedWolf]

Gateways has two models that would fit your needs. The 320X is $1099 with a Pentium M 1.6, 256 meg ram, 40gb hd, wireless g, and 15" screen. It's about 5.5 pounds and 1" thick. It comes with a $300 rebate that takes the price to 799. More out the door than you want but a great machine and can be configured with a lot of extras and still under your target price (after rebate). You can also get a free printer with it (after rebate, of course). You can also get the 320 for $799 out the door and a $100 rebate. You have to drop down to a celeron 1.3 and just a dvd (320x has a cdrw/dvd).

The second model is the M210 series. That one starts at $749 after $100 rebate. It is a 14" widescreen and comes configured similarly to the 320.

If you can stomach the $300 rebate, the 320x is a great deal. You can configure it with $200 in options (x-brite screen, bigger hd, etc.) and come in under $1000 and it comes with a Pentium M rather than a celeron M.