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Laptop purchase

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wyvrn

Lifer
I am interested in selling my desktops and just getting a laptop. It needs to have 256 ram minimum, 1.2GHZ or higher, DVD, and at least 16MB video memory. I also prefer slim to big when possible. My price is about $1200-1400 max. I don't need more than 20GB hard disk space. Whats the best?

I would love to get in on this deal, but I am in TX 🙁
 
Good luck finding somthing like that in that price range...good slim laptops under $1400-1500 are hard to come by
 
Toshiba Satellite 2405-S202


ESUP: $1,579.00
Equipped with an Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor4 1.6GHz, 14.1" XGA TFT active matrix display, 256MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM, S3 Super Savage graphics controller w/16MB internal video memory, DVD/CD-RW multifunction drive, 30GB1 Hard drive, 10/100 ethernet, V.90/56K modem, Lotus® SmartSuite Millennium Edition, and Windows XP Professional. Service upgradeable 802.11b WirelessLAN is also offered.
 
It doesn't have to be slim really, but if its down to two equally equipped lappies and one weighs less, I would take the lighter one. I will be travelling some with it and using it at school, so I don't want a brick.

Good luck finding somthing like that in that price range...good slim laptops under $1400-1500 are hard to come by
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this one might be better

Satellite 1400-S151

Equipped with a Mobile Intel® Celeron® Processor4 1200MHz (1.2GHz), 14.1" TFT active matrix display, 256MB PC133 SDRAM, Trident CyberALADDiN-T graphics controller w/16MB external UMA video memory, DVD/CD-RW multifunction drive, 30GB1 Hard drive, V.90/56K modem, 10/100 Ethernet LAN and Windows® XP Professional. Service upgradeable 802.11b WirelessLAN is also offered.


link.. i hope
 
Here's what seems like a good laptop in your price range:

Compaq Presario 1500T

$1199 (plus shipping and tax)

Mobile Celeron 1.4GHz
256MB DDR RAM (2 dimms)
20GB HD
8X DVD-ROM
14.1" TFT XGA
32MB DDR Radeon 7500 vid card (pretty good 🙂)
FREE 802.11b wireless module (mailed to you)
FREE carrying case
6.69lbs.....not bad 🙂

I'm actually eyeing this laptop myself 😉
 
Originally posted by: iamme
Here's what seems like a good laptop in your price range:

Compaq Presario 1500T

$1199 (plus shipping and tax)

Mobile Celeron 1.4GHz
256MB DDR RAM (2 dimms)
20GB HD
8X DVD-ROM
14.1" TFT XGA
32MB DDR Radeon 7500 vid card (pretty good 🙂)
FREE 802.11b wireless module (mailed to you)
FREE carrying case
6.69lbs.....not bad 🙂

I'm actually eyeing this laptop myself 😉
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looks like a good deal, i'd never trust a compaq laptop though. The toshiba's are really great quality.
 
Originally posted by: Rallispec
Originally posted by: iamme
Here's what seems like a good laptop in your price range:

Compaq Presario 1500T

$1199 (plus shipping and tax)

Mobile Celeron 1.4GHz
256MB DDR RAM (2 dimms)
20GB HD
8X DVD-ROM
14.1" TFT XGA
32MB DDR Radeon 7500 vid card (pretty good 🙂)
FREE 802.11b wireless module (mailed to you)
FREE carrying case
6.69lbs.....not bad 🙂

I'm actually eyeing this laptop myself 😉
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looks like a good deal, i'd never trust a compaq laptop though. The toshiba's are really great quality.
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I used think that, but the new 2800 series is something to drool over (Anandtech has a review on it) 😀

Plus the Radeon video cards are supposed to be pretty sweet.
 
Nice! I think you might have hit the nail on the head. Great price for a lappy with 32MB video memory and only 6.69 lbs. Did you spec that at Compaq.com or somewhere else?

Originally posted by: iamme
Here's what seems like a good laptop in your price range:

Compaq Presario 1500T

$1199 (plus shipping and tax)

Mobile Celeron 1.4GHz
256MB DDR RAM (2 dimms)
20GB HD
8X DVD-ROM
14.1" TFT XGA
32MB DDR Radeon 7500 vid card (pretty good 🙂)
FREE 802.11b wireless module (mailed to you)
FREE carrying case
6.69lbs.....not bad 🙂

I'm actually eyeing this laptop myself 😉
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BTW, the other 1500T laptops have desktop Pentium 4 CPU's in them, so expect battery life to suffer, and it may get a little toasty 😛
 
Originally posted by: wyvrn
Nice! I think you might have hit the nail on the head. Great price for a lappy with 32MB video memory and only 6.69 lbs. Did you spec that at Compaq.com or somewhere else?
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Just Select the 1500T series, then select BUILT FOR YOU, then under "Select your category" select Personal Productivity, and the CONFIGURE AND BUY the first laptop on the left.

Be sure to select the DVD-ROM (24X CD-ROM is default).

 
I thought about that one too. There is a Toshiba in the for sale forums for $850 shipped, with little smaller screen, no CDRW (not important to me anyway), and smaller hard drive. But I much prefer the 14" screen and wouldn't mind spending the extra dough to get it. The only thing I don't know about is the Savage chipset video, since I will be playing an occasional game of WCIII.

Originally posted by: Rallispec
this one might be better

Satellite 1400-S151

Equipped with a Mobile Intel® Celeron® Processor4 1200MHz (1.2GHz), 14.1" TFT active matrix display, 256MB PC133 SDRAM, Trident CyberALADDiN-T graphics controller w/16MB external UMA video memory, DVD/CD-RW multifunction drive, 30GB1 Hard drive, V.90/56K modem, 10/100 Ethernet LAN and Windows® XP Professional. Service upgradeable 802.11b WirelessLAN is also offered.


link.. i hope
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