My dad is putting together a coalition of relatives to get me a laptop as a graduation present. I haven't really been keeping up to date on laptop technology recently, and I was wondering if people had any suggestions for companies/features/models. Here's what I'm looking for:
1) It doesn't need to be particularly powerful. It won't be my primary computer, since I have the coolest Desktop in the world (480 gigs of hard drive space!) and I would be mostly using it for word processing, writing code, playing CivIII, and other strictly acedemic purposes when it's a nice day outside. It needs to run modern software well enough that I don't want to hit it, but it doesn't need to be blindingly fast.
2) It needs to be light. I want to be able to put it in my bag and walk to classes or the local park without my shoulder falling off. But at the same time it has to be sturdy enough that I don't worry about snapping it.
3) It needs to have decent graphics for watching the occasional movie, but it doesn't need anythign all that fancy. The only real games I play are CivIII, the old Final Fantasy games on an emulator, and Nexus, an MMORPG with old-final-fantasy type graphics.
4) It needs a good battery. This is one of the biggest things. I want to be able to charge this thing and then walk around with it all day without going outlet-hunting every couple of hours. I'm willing to carry around extra batteries to acheive this, but in that case I would like them to be easily chargable and easy to put into the laptop.
5) It needs a CD-RW drive. Those thin little laptops with no optical drives make me grumpy. A CD-RW/DVD combo drive would be a plus, but it's not nessesary
6) It needs wired and wireless ethernet
7) It needs to be relatively inexpensive. Not too much over $2k. And ideally it wouldn't come with all sorts of bundled software I'd have to pay for. I have my own software.
8) It needs to not be a mac. Macs are just... macs.
Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
antieuclid
1) It doesn't need to be particularly powerful. It won't be my primary computer, since I have the coolest Desktop in the world (480 gigs of hard drive space!) and I would be mostly using it for word processing, writing code, playing CivIII, and other strictly acedemic purposes when it's a nice day outside. It needs to run modern software well enough that I don't want to hit it, but it doesn't need to be blindingly fast.
2) It needs to be light. I want to be able to put it in my bag and walk to classes or the local park without my shoulder falling off. But at the same time it has to be sturdy enough that I don't worry about snapping it.
3) It needs to have decent graphics for watching the occasional movie, but it doesn't need anythign all that fancy. The only real games I play are CivIII, the old Final Fantasy games on an emulator, and Nexus, an MMORPG with old-final-fantasy type graphics.
4) It needs a good battery. This is one of the biggest things. I want to be able to charge this thing and then walk around with it all day without going outlet-hunting every couple of hours. I'm willing to carry around extra batteries to acheive this, but in that case I would like them to be easily chargable and easy to put into the laptop.
5) It needs a CD-RW drive. Those thin little laptops with no optical drives make me grumpy. A CD-RW/DVD combo drive would be a plus, but it's not nessesary
6) It needs wired and wireless ethernet
7) It needs to be relatively inexpensive. Not too much over $2k. And ideally it wouldn't come with all sorts of bundled software I'd have to pay for. I have my own software.
8) It needs to not be a mac. Macs are just... macs.
Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
antieuclid
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