what kind of laptop should i buy?

thanks for all the suggestions
anyone still reading this? no, ok


i got an Acer. [2.0 gHz Athalon, 80 gig, 512MB DDR SDRAM, 1600mHZ front end bus (that seems really fast compared to last time i looked), Windows to make sure my life is unbearable, yada yada yada]

Inamourada_Flux wins the prize.
maybe cause thats what i was leaning towards anyways, or maybe cause shes better looking than Paul9000. hard to say

[Edited on Apr 14, 2006 by DrStinkypants]

Prize?! Now you tell me.

I can alternately flex my pec muscles to make them bounce. I bet she can't do that!

What have you been smoking? Buy AMD for a desktop but Intel for a laptop because Intel has a better mobile chip. It gives off less heat.

I've been smoking better performance.

You've been smoking Intel marketing, better because "it gives off less heat"..

http://www.laptoplogic.com/resources/detail.php?id=17

Read that, then tell me which is better.

Do you care about battery life or performance? Personally, I rarely have 4 hour + sessions without being plugged in. So, I have an Athlon 64 laptop, and don't need a desktop for anything that I do anymore. (I program)

Now, if you found yourself constantly on the road and battery life was a huge concern, then you'd either go AMD Turion or Intel Centrino (which isn't a chip, but is a package of stuff that goes along with a Dothan chip)..

Of course, then you'd be picking between better performance, or greater battery life. But how much greater battery life, well this link from that entire report makes an interesting observation:

http://www.laptoplogic.com/resources/detail.php?id=17&page=13

Note under real life conditions, the Turion outperforms the Intel Centrino. So, hmmm, it outperforms on most of the benchmarks, and has longer battery life.

http://www.laptoplogic.com/resources/detail.php?id=17&page=16

Now, wait, wait..but they say they are closely matched. Although one seems to be slightly better the AMD of course.

Hmmm, the last thing I guess is, Intel as a company aren't playing fair. I may be really smoking something bad but ethically AMD is a slightly better choice. I don't like buying from companies that lie about their products.

Whatever you do don't buy a Celeron processor. Stay away from Celerons.

Don't buy Dell either.

Edit/ clearly I didn't read the entire thread

[Edited on Apr 14, 2006 by tafferdogg]