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Thread ID: 68003	2006-04-13 12:38:00	Laptop purchase help	Michael8 (7034)	Press F1

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446075	2006-04-13 12:38:00	Hi, I am considering buying a laptop to help me with university but I don't know which laptops are of good value. I am looking for one that is fast, has a long enough battery life and has a decent amount of hard-disk space for me to store about 40mb worth of recorded lectures each day. My target price is below $2000, or $1000 if possible. By the way, what are the differences between Pentium , Centrino, Celeron and athlon processers? What advantages/disadvantages are there between them? What about Pentium 4 and pentium M? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Michael	Michael8 (7034)
446076	2006-04-13 12:40:00	Without going into specifics, If restrict your choices to Centrino laptops you can't go wrong.	Metla (12)
446077	2006-04-13 22:46:00	Hey man, I bought a laptop last fall so I might help you on that but I'm not God. First, Processors: you will need to determine what application you will use your laptop for. For guys in Engineer, who uses a lot of software and need a good processor to handle all their stuff, and for gamers I would go with a pentium4 HT. That's what I have. Now, for a centrino, I don't know how well it handle all the games since I never tried one. The way I see it is that if a centrino would be better than a pentium 4 ht for gaming well every desktop should had one. Since they dont, I guess that pentium 4 ht is better than centrino. I got to say that my sister owns a laptop with a centrino for univeristy too and it works really nice for her and I was the one who chose it for her. But then again, she's not a gamer or a heavy programmation user. Second, Battery life: My P4 ht, I have around 1h30min of life witch is very short when you forget your plug at home. Centrino is way better on that one. That is its main positive side. around 3h maybe more... Third, Size and weight: Mine is really big and heavy: 17" widescreen witch is really cool for LAN Party. But again, it really heavy to walk to the university with that. Also, because its P4 HT, it uses a lot of power and the laptop comes kinda hot so they install some noisy fan and I hate that. You dont wont a noisy fan in class when every one can hear your laptop running like crazy. Graphic card: check only that option if you are a real gamer. Memory: this is independent of everything said up here. Witchever laptop you will buy, you can decide how many GB you want. I would suggest nothing less than 80GB. I see a lot of 100GB now. I think that this cover all the basic. So it really depends on what you're going to do with that laptop. Have fun looking for one and before you buy it, make sure you read some reviews on that specific laptop from other users so you will know what to expect. Until then have fun and keep on rocking in the free world.	Ralph (10190)
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