Labtop?

[SandDemon]

There's a good chance very shortly I'll be moving to a consulting job that's about triple my current pay....so I need to get a laptop. I'm probably not looking for super bleeding edge but I am looking for something up there - so no bargain busters but nothing that'd make my car look cheap. Anyone have any horror/sucess stories of labtops these days? I've been making my own PCs for awhile now so I haven't really tackled the market to see what's the best out there for price/quality/etc.

Any suggestions guys?

[div--]

high range:

sony vaio vs anything apple (personally i would go with apple)

mid to low range:
dell / acer

We have a few laptops at work, ranging from alienware to dell, from reading your post, dell or acer's medium to high price range would do fine for what you need them.

[Sneezer]

ibm thinkpad :D

one things for sure though, apple never look cheap :)

[SandDemon]

My problem with Apple is I'm going to be running a lot of stuff for work that I'm not sure will run on a Mac.

Now if I could figure out if they have Apple Laptop's yet with IBM chips so I can do that dual boot, more power to them

[Skunkworks]

Never bought a computer before these guys, always built my own, but when I find a site that will put together, format, and ship a rig cheaper than a can buy parts and manually put it together I take note. My buddy just got a nice laptop from them and is extremely satisfied as well.
Hope this helps.

http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/

[Fesan]

MacBooks have intel processors, that are rumoured to be able to boot Windows, not yet available to the public though afaik.

Personally i have a CL56 which i am very happy with:)
If i where to reccomend one of the bigger companies it would be HP:)

That is ofcourse if youre gonna use it for business stuff, and not gaming:)

[Traum@]

Google more and u'll find that u can run M$ shit on a Pbook ehmm Mac Book

Too lazy to link 8)

[KingKapalone]

IBM and Apple have the best laptops

[Scorch]

Also the most expensive...

I drop the shit out of my Toshibas and never had any dead pixels or hard drive fails. Had some USB ports die, but probably cause I jam shit in there without looking.

[IN-QQQQ]

Also the most expensive...

I drop the shit out of my Toshibas and never had any dead pixels or hard drive fails. Had some USB ports die, but probably cause I jam shit in there without looking.
Scorch, you know those aren't suposed to be used as Sex Toys. :shock:

[Fesan]

Also the most expensive...

I drop the shit out of my Toshibas and never had any dead pixels or hard drive fails. Had some USB ports die, but probably cause I jam shit in there without looking.
Scorch, you know those aren't suposed to be used as Sex Toys. :shock:

i was thinking more in the line of

"so you jam in things without looking there too?" but your joke works too:p

[silic0sis]

i have a dell i9300
pentium m 1.86, geforce go 6800, 1gb ddr2 ram
works well, my fps at the AH of IF is around 50-60, quite cheap too

u can get the more expensive dell laptops, the XPS ones if u want better performance.

[deathjester]

as im studying computer sciences it is possible that my opinion wouldnt help,...but anyway
1. if you're going to use gnu/linux, get ibm thinkpad with nvidia (at least if youre not into the whole linux thing)

2. if you just need it to work w/o given applications but dont want to use gnu/linux, get a powerbook (mac, osx (10.4) is great OS and mac powerbooks are best to work tbh)

3. if you're into windows, even to work (which is disgusting *G*) buy a toshiba tecra to work only or a toshiba m40 satellite (291 f.e.) for work and amusement (gaming, multimedia and stuff)

im really into toshiba notebooks anyway, using different gnu/linux distros on different notebooks and also ms windows as dualboot, works fine, really.
toshiba notebooks are silent and fast, hard to kill and they offer damn nice security and software.

however, i dont want to advertise them too much, its just my opinion as i work with toshiba notebooks for years now :)

[Scorch]

Also the most expensive...

I drop the shit out of my Toshibas and never had any dead pixels or hard drive fails. Had some USB ports die, but probably cause I jam shit in there without looking.
Scorch, you know those aren't suposed to be used as Sex Toys. :shock:

Oh, you wouldn't believe...

[SandDemon]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16834115194

Hearing good things about this one, hmmmm

[SandDemon]

So, looking it over....
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Dell XPS M170 - $2,373

Intel® Pentium® M Processor 760 (2 GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB)
2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz 2 Dimm
17 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen UXGA Display with TrueLife™ (1920 x 1200 pixels)
60GB 7200rpm Hard Drive
256MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 7800 GTX

They probably gimp ya somewhere, but this looks pretty good.
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Alienware - Too fucking expensive

Even something exactly like the Dell XPS (give or take little things), it was over $800 dollars more. I dont need a pretty alien to do what I do.
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Acer 4005WLMi from Newegg - $1915

AMD Turion 64 - 2ghz, 1mb L2 cache
15.4" Wide SXGA+ @ 1680 × 1050
ATI Mobility RADEON X700
100GB HD
DDR333 1GB Ram

Not too many details and seems a bit pricey for what you're getting. The Dell seems better....another possible option is: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16834115226
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Apple MacBook Pro MA464LL/A - $2500

* 2.0 GHz Intel Core Duo processor with 2 MB shared L2 Cache
* 1 GB (single SODIMM) 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300); ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256 MB GDDR3 memory
* 100 GB 5400 rpm Serial ATA hard drive; slot-load SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW)
* 15.4-inch TFT widescreen display with 1440 x 900 resolution

Only downside is it's an Apple :) http://www.onmac.net/ has figured out how to get WindowsXP on this puppy and it runs pretty good, but I can't do video acceleration in XP (or use iSight, Apple Remote, and adjust screenbrightness) but I'd only be going to windows really for the random game (eh, this is what sucks) and some job work (eclipse sucks on Macs). It looks real nice but until they figure out video dont think it's worth it.
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My god did just I say Dell was the best? What has the world come to! Help me find a better one!