Which laptop to buy? I'm completely clueless

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b0untypure1

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#429684 21-Jan-2011 21:56

In comparison with that toshiba link, with the laptop link I posted above, I would rather have the 4th ram and a 320gb hdd instead of a 2gb ram and 500gb hdd. You will be buying an external anyway as u said :) so 320gb would be ok for now

imasportsgeek

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#439154 14-Feb-2011 10:53

thanks for all yoyr advice guys! i ended up buying this one:

http://www.pbtech.co.nz/index.php?z=p&p=NBKHNB1174837B&name=HP-Presario-CQ62-278TX-i3-370M-2.4GHz-4G-DDR3-320G

a friend of mine is gonna put a different OS on there, apparently he doesnt believe in Windows 7 Home ;)

cheers
N.

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#439195 14-Feb-2011 11:53

imasportsgeek: thanks for all yoyr advice guys! i ended up buying this one:
http://www.pbtech.co.nz/index.php?z=p&p=NBKHNB1174837B&name=HP-Presario-CQ62-278TX-i3-370M-2.4GHz-4G-DDR3-320G

a friend of mine is gonna put a different OS on there, apparently he doesnt believe in Windows 7 Home ;)

cheers
N.

IMHO I cannot see why you would remove Windows 7 Home. Also I am guessing that whatever your friend is suggesting putting on is pirated which opens you up to a whole bunch of other risks. What is your friends reasoning for not liking W7 Home Prem?

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Mprezd

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#439201 14-Feb-2011 12:02

the only real downsides to W7HP are the lack of Windows XP mode and perhaps the network domain support

other than that there is no reason to change.

I wouldn't suggest changing versions unless these are important functions. And if you are changing versions there are, as noted above, piracy issues if your friend isn't using windows genuine software.

b0untypure1

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#439511 14-Feb-2011 21:58

Virtual box is what a home premium user can use to get windows xp. Its an amazing program

Mprezd

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#439550 14-Feb-2011 22:53

b0untypure1: Virtual box is what a home premium user can use to get windows xp. Its an amazing program

yes but virtual box isn't that great for gaming. While it can provide more colours than xp mode in win7, it suffers in processing - so games still run better in copatibility mode than VB XP

b0untypure1

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#439598 15-Feb-2011 08:35

Must be some old games there considering i have demonstar running in windows 7 home prem no issues.
Of course virtual box is bad for gaming since there is no direct x and it runs virtual memory. The main thing i use VB for is programming with vb6 since vb6 wont work on w7

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#439605 15-Feb-2011 08:45

Sony Vaio is too expensive. For a good laptop, if no gaming is involved I'd look at the Dell Inspiron 15.

b0untypure1

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#439666 15-Feb-2011 10:48

freitasm: Sony Vaio is too expensive. For a good laptop, if no gaming is involved I'd look at the Dell Inspiron 15.

+1. Overpriced like mac's :p
Also dell have nice i7 gaming laptops around $1800

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#447115 9-Mar-2011 22:38

freitasm: Sony Vaio is too expensive. For a good laptop, if no gaming is involved I'd look at the Dell Inspiron 15.

Am I right in thinking that the Inspirons don't have Gigabit ethernet, only 10/100? Seems an odd limitation.

I have a gigabit network at home and it makes a lot of difference shuffling files around between my media server and laptop.

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