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jwh2187

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http://www.abspc.com/app/Checkquote.asp?cartno=13065852&systemid=1884

http://www.abspc.com/app/Checkquote.asp?cartno=13065852&systemid=1884


i dont know if those links work, but im looking for a laptop for college. i plan on bringing it home every few weeks, and using it for gaming, and school work, music etc. i have narrowed my search down to the top two laptops, but im not quite sure which is the better deal, and which is better for gaming. The abs g3 with the 3700+ is very powerful, but im wondering if the videocard radeon 9700 will just create a bottleneck for modern games (wow, doom3, hl2). the other laptop is the abs g4 on the asus barebone. i think its with the 6600 nvidia but dont know much about intel's mobile processors. i believe the barebone is better quiality and the it also is a lighter system, however the one i customized is a hundered doller more than the g3. please help me with my decision, leave any coments that may help me decide. thanks.
 
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dell is having a $750 off $1499 coupon starting tomorrow

fatwallet has the exact code

it's limited to 15000 purchases so get in fast
 
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fbrdphreak

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First of all, both those links shown a Pentium M Asus barebones.

Second of all, don't do that. That is very expensive for what you get.

I went to ProPortable and customized the following:
PROPortable Z71V Centrino Notebook
1. Intel® Pentium® M w/ 2MB Cache; 533MHz FSB : 750 - 1.86GHz; 533MHz FSB; w/ 2MB Cache -Standard
2. DDR2 533 so-Dimm : 1024 ddr2 533 (1024mb x 1) - Corsair
3. Hard Drives 2.5" ATA100 : No Hard Drive (Barebone)
4. Optical Drive : 8x DVD Dual Layer / Dual Format Burner (+/- R/RW)
5. Internal Wireless Card (Required for Centrino) : Intel PRO/2200 Wireless 802.11b/g MiniPCI
6. Operating Systems : Microsoft Windows XP Professional w/ SP2 -Standard
7. Warranties : 2 years parts & labor w/ 1 way paid shipping

For $1708.40 not including tax or shipping. Buy your own 7200RPM drive (they're OOS of the Hitachi 7200RPM) for ~$150 and you're set. IMO, you could save money by dropping down to the 1.73 chip and even ditch XP; XP will save you $145 and you can probably find an OEM copy online for cheaper.

Now that is what I would do
 
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fbrdphreak

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The Z71V uses much newer tech than the notebook you linked. The CPU is great, nice & powerful, but will chug the batt life. The Radeon 9700 is outdated. I would go for the Z71V. Where are you finding the P-M 2.0 60GB 7200RPM 1GB RAM for 1700? Link please?
 
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Pr0d1gy

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Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
First of all, both those links shown a Pentium M Asus barebones.

Second of all, don't do that. That is very expensive for what you get.

I went to ProPortable and customized the following:
PROPortable Z71V Centrino Notebook
1. Intel® Pentium® M w/ 2MB Cache; 533MHz FSB : 750 - 1.86GHz; 533MHz FSB; w/ 2MB Cache -Standard
2. DDR2 533 so-Dimm : 1024 ddr2 533 (1024mb x 1) - Corsair
3. Hard Drives 2.5" ATA100 : No Hard Drive (Barebone)
4. Optical Drive : 8x DVD Dual Layer / Dual Format Burner (+/- R/RW)
5. Internal Wireless Card (Required for Centrino) : Intel PRO/2200 Wireless 802.11b/g MiniPCI
6. Operating Systems : Microsoft Windows XP Professional w/ SP2 -Standard
7. Warranties : 2 years parts & labor w/ 1 way paid shipping

For $1708.40 not including tax or shipping. Buy your own 7200RPM drive (they're OOS of the Hitachi 7200RPM) for ~$150 and you're set. IMO, you could save money by dropping down to the 1.73 chip and even ditch XP; XP will save you $145 and you can probably find an OEM copy online for cheaper.

Now that is what I would do
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Just kind of wondering what video card this comes with?
 
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fbrdphreak

Lifer
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Originally posted by: jwh2187
thx for the help heres the link, but thats without an os for 1700 since i have my own windows xp with a lisence. do u think taht i need sp2 to run it?

http://www.ynot2k.com/products/laptops/LAPTOPS.htm
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My buddy just bought a Z71V from the same ppl, that company is also known as Geared2Play. I think that's a great deal (I just recommend ProPortable 'cuz I know they've been around for a while, the guy was the first one to bring Asus barebones to the US) and you should really enjoy your machine. If you have a copy of XP, that's fine to use that; they will provide a disc w/all the drivers & software. You will need SP2, but you have two choices with that: install XP and manually updated it to SP2 or you can create a new copy of your CD and slipstream SP2 into your new CD, thus you will be installing XP SP2.
 
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jwh2187

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i guess ill buy from proportable. but now taht ive seen their selection, im wondering what is the better barebone, Z70v - 15.4" WS / 6lbs / Bluetooth
64MB ATI X600 or Z71v 15.4" WS / 6.6lbs / DDR2 533 128MB Nvidia 6600. i personally like the look of the 270v, but i have seen alot more about the 271v. thanks

i also heard that the ALS (Ambient Light Sensor) on the 271v is somthing that is not needed and does not do much
 
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jwh2187

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"Ye its a great design for a business client. You cant be luggin around a vcr of a notebook to aclient meeting and this one raises eye brows. Screen quality os awesome as it always was with their flagship laptop. The actual scores for the z70v will be about 770 for 3dmark05 and 3030 for 3dmark03. Those are the same scores that the w3v got with the same gpu x600. So in terms of gameplay the 6600 go does crush it but those scores are still better then the widely popular 9700 which is now absolete. We may offer upgrade modules for the z70v with time. They will ofcourse cost an arm and a leg but hey people will buy it.

aparently the 270v is a much better carbon fiber chasis comapred to the 271v, but the videocxard in the 271 is better so its a hard decision :(



http://ynot2k.com/phpbb/nfphpbb/viewtopic.php?t=89
 
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fbrdphreak

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I don't know why you are reading reviews of a product that are written by the reseller. :confused:

Why don't you lay out your needs & uses of the comp and we'll go from there, also budget of course
 
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