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| Thread ID: 47903 | 2004-08-08 11:54:00 | Buying a Notebook - suggestions please... | Myke (3277) | Press F1 |
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| 259651 | 2004-08-08 11:54:00 | 512 MB RAM Maybe a DVD writer XP Pro Good for video editing & some not too fancy other multimedia & ur standard business apps. Great screen - will be teaching with it. Usually will have a power supply nearby Firewire & media card slots would be good. Thinking $2400 to $3500 Any thoughts or recommendations? At $2200 the Sony Vaio K series looks inviting, Tohsiba M30 ... with large screen and new LCD tech looks sharp. I'm so hopeless at making decisions. |
Myke (3277) | ||
| 259652 | 2004-08-08 12:20:00 | Get the most feature packed one you can afford. And get a brand you know you can trust. Are you going for perfmance or portability? |
Growly (6) | ||
| 259653 | 2004-08-08 12:58:00 | Hi Myke I'm no expert and have only had my Toshiba A10 notebook since March. Although really happy with it, I do wish I had: 1. Had the Ram upgraded from 256MB it came with to the 1Gb it can go up to, at the time I had bought it. Apparantly cheaper that way. Also Windows hogs a lot of it, and so do some commonly used Antivirus programs. 2. My model didn't come with floppy disk drive, but you can buy an external one, USB FDD Kit. Wasn't aware of this when I bought it. Now have to save up again to get it. A lot of photos I scanned with my old PC are on floppy and can't get at them without the floppy drive. 3. A second Universal AC Adaptor. If I move from my usual desk to another place, have to undo the bands I clamped sl. loosely around my cords to keep them tidy and not dangling every where. Would rather have the second adaptor I could just pick up and go with. 4. A second battery. They don't last that long, and if you select the option for longer life, your screen goes darker which is hard on the eyes. But as long as it is capable of doing all the things you intend doing, you'll be happy with whatever you get. Best of luck, Marg Although I can use the Touchpad, I still prefer my optical mouse. Feel more in control. |
pulling hair out (4493) | ||
| 259654 | 2004-08-09 00:46:00 | Probably after a balance of performance and portability. Performance first. |
Myke (3277) | ||
| 259655 | 2004-08-09 02:53:00 | I use a Compaq NX9005 with 512 RAM, AMD 2mhz mobile processor, and XP Pro. Lovely machine but I wouldn't even try video processing. The advice I have picked up from this forum and computer people is that you are wasting your time trying to play with video on a laptop. Possibly if you had a high-end graphics card, lots of RAM, and lots of fast cache, you may get what you need. One of the problems is that laptop hard-drives spin at approx 5000rpm whereas a desktop drive spins at 7200rpm. Info gathering is much faster on a desktop. The easy solution is to get a Mac and use iMovie. I've seen it used by my childrens teachers and it works very well. |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 259656 | 2004-08-09 03:06:00 | Hmmm, I've just spent the last 18 months using Macs. If only I could afford a Mac & a Win PC... The last version of iMovie was a bit buggy on my last few plays. I'm not looking at major video productions, mainly short stuff... probably not full DV streamed. I work with teachers and students, so I need to be mobile. |
Myke (3277) | ||
| 259657 | 2004-08-09 03:24:00 | Plenty of Laptops capable of video editing (and game playing),A highend video chipset does nothing for video editing that a low end one won't do,the idea is just to have dedicated video ram so it isn't fighting with the rest of the system over resources. Laptops being brand name units suffer the same problems as brand name desktops,they are so loaded up with crap programs that it has a negative impact on performance,My laptop (as powerful as it is...woot woot) took a significent knock running all the fluff. I have done a boat load of editing and encoding and burning to dvd,water off a ducks back. |
metla (154) | ||
| 259658 | 2004-08-09 04:58:00 | Of course, I didn't say anything about listening to Metla when I got advice. :D He knows more than I ever will. |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 259659 | 2004-08-09 05:16:00 | I sell the Clevo D430 Pentium 4 2.8Ghz 512MB Ram 30GB Hard Drive 1x Firewire 3x USB2 Ports 56k Modem 10/100 LAN TV-Out InfraRed PCMCIA Slot Floppy Drive DVD-Rom / CD-RW Combo Drive Built-in Webcam 15.1 XGA TFT Screen Windows XP Home w/Service Pack 2 Final Looking at about $1880 + gst if you're interested ;-) |
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