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Laptop/Notebook Advice

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Altamira

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Hi,

First of all i dont know the difference between Laptop and notebook, sorry if the topic is misleading. Lets get back on track. Im in urgent need for a laptop (or should i say notebook!? 🙂, for University paper works and for field work (investigation), im studying archeaology so i will need something portable, as light as possible (lets say around 2-3Kg), fairly resistent/reliable/stable and with a good battery autonomy. I will use it for Word text and Powerpoint presentation and problably some small photo editing/manipulation (in photoshop). As far as games, no will not use it for games, i have a pc desktop for that. The country i live the most commons laptop producers are Asus, Toshiba, Sony, HP, Lenovo, Acer, LG and some others. Its very difficult to get Dell or Gateway, or almost impossible so this producers are out for me. My price tag is around 1,150.00 US Dollars. As i said its urgent. Please give some hints/advices/opinions, its the first laptop i buy and i dont know much about laptop advantages and functionalities.

Thank you all

 
Laptop = Notebook

Durability, check out Lenovo. Maybe the T400 or X200 if you need thing and light.

Where are you looking to buy this?
 
My reply from the other thread...


Originally posted by: Jiggz
What you need is a netbook! Google Asus EEE PC 1000HA it cost around $400.00 and last about 5-6 hours on the battery.
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I second this suggestion. Both me and my daughter have one(me=900, girl=700), and they're great little computers. Very portable, and more than powerful enough for normal office type activities. I'm running Ubuntu-eee on both of mine, and I think that would work well for you also if you want to give Linux a try.
 
Ok, i hope this is the last post, tomorrow i will go ahead with the purchase. But just to be sure give me a last advice between this three models:

Lenovo Thinkpad T400
Apple MacBook 2.0Ghz 13" Montevina (i think this is a bit small and i added this option very recently)
Toshiba Tecra M10-130 (3G)

Well considering my needs (in the first post) which one would you choose? you have better options?
Sorry if im reapeating myself, but im extremely careful when buying things, i dont run and buy i have to be really convinced that im going to apply the money in a good product, to last, to abuse (at some degree), not like a chinese watch ("it always says water resistent", but you know it will last one week at max, sorry if there is any chinese friend here)

Thank you
 
Ho i almost forgot to ask, i have heard (in the Thinkpad forum) lenovo T400 is a little weak in graphics, do you think that applies to some Photoshop editing, seeing one or another movie?
 
would be nice if you actually linked those three you are asking about, so we dont have to go looking online for the specs for each model etc

 
ok, well if i'd get the lenovo i'd go with Radeon 3470. its much better than the intel integrated graphics.
however it has smaller hd, less ram and (i think) a smaller battery than the toshiba.
the toshiba has a NVS 150M, which is probably = to the 3470.
lenovo has a faster processor than the tosh one
lenovo is probably more durable too.

(this is comparing the 1129 and the 1190 priced models)

whichever one you get, you'd probably want to upgrade that battery to something larger.
i dont have much experience with macs but i'm not sure if you can get a larger battery for it



 
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