Whats the best overall notebook for $900?

[dguy6789]

What in you guys' opinions, is the best notebook performance wise and battery life wise, for 900 bucks or lower?

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

My vote would be for a m68xx from the FS/FT forum ($800 - $950). Just got one and seems to be an awesome lappy so far (runs HL2, D3, UT2004 and FarCry just fine).

 

[phisrow]

At the 900 dollar price point you might well have to choose performance or battery life, unfortunately. Which one would be your highest priority? Something like a low end Ibook is going to have pretty nice battery life; but suck at playing even those games that Macs can run, while something like the suggestion above will be a pretty nice gaming box; but leave you running on AC for most of its life.

 

[dguy6789]

I want it to play games like ut2k4 and c&c generals, and rct3, at mid to low settings decently, and it needs to have enough battery life to be able to effectively use it for workin or gamin on the go.

 

[21stHermit]

Originally posted by: dguy6789
What in you guys' opinions, is the best notebook performance wise and battery life wise, for 900 bucks or lower?

Found this HP refirb, looks so good I may buy one.

$849, A64, 512MB, DVD burner, 15.4" WXVGA, no clue about the video.

 

[DragonMasterAlex]

It has an NVIDIA GeForce?4 420 Go with 32MB DDR.

You're better off with the emachines' Radeon 9600 with 64MB dedicated.

Jason

 

[LotusNotesGuy]

yup, CompUSA is running a special on a gateway model with the ati 9600 chip and modible athlon 65 bit processor. I know severa people who got them for 750$ after rebate during the madness sales.