Need help finding a good laptop

[mattest2542]

I have been looking for a good midrange laptop for quite sometime. The main things I am looking for is a 14.1 or 15.4 inch screen, minimal gig of ram, and vista premium. As far as which processor to get that is in the air for me. I have no idea how good pentum dual cores are. And I am looking for a dual core amd or intel depending on best price performance ratio. My budget is 700-800 because this is primarily for home use. Here are the two I have looked at so far.

http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/HP-Pavil...atOid/-12963/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do

http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Specific...ccd/productDetailSpecification.do#tabs

 

[moosey]

You're on the right track, HP makes a nice laptop and both are at nice prices. I'm not sure how the Pentium will benchmark compared to the Turion though.

 

[Souka]

I like using google ot look for reviews.... google something like "review HP dv2214us " (without quotes). Do same for other models yer after....


at least you might get some insight on battery lilfe, or things to look out for (red-flags).


my $.02

 

[fire400]

does it really have to be from circuit city, have you also tried best buy?

i know that paying for tax sucks.

look for battery life too, if you could pay a few more bucks for more cells, go for it.

 

[Synomenon]

Best Buy has a wider selection of HP notebooks. They even have SE (white / silver) versions of the newer DV series with the in-laid wave pattern on the lid.

 

[Synomenon]

Here are a couple of them:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp...page&pageIdentity=customerDriven&h=488

 

[BronX BooGiE]

AMD Athlon 64 X2 processers are better then intel dual core processers.