It would probably be all right for you. I'd still rather have one with built-in wireless card. The wireless card on mine sticks out and it won't fit in a laptop bag with it in.
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It would probably be all right for you. I'd still rather have one with built-in wireless card. The wireless card on mine sticks out and it won't fit in a laptop bag with it in.
DO NOT GET A FRIGGIN" DELL.
Go to Office Depot. You can get 15.4 inch Laptops with 120GB+ hard drives and 2GB of RAM for less than $700. I'm in charge of Technology there and I know 1st hand. The new sale add comes out every Sunday and there's always a sale
Also, the last sales quarter just ended and previous laptops that were once displays get an additional 10% off the register price.
For instance....
Item #548-815
Toshiba Satellite A215-S4757
15.4"
AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-56 1.8GHz
2GB DDR2
250GB HD
Vista Premium
DVD Super-Multi
wireless b/g
4 USB, 1 Firewire, 1 S-Video
5-in-1 memory card reader
$699.99 Instant, no mail-ins
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Originally Posted by killergamer
For what you say you want to do there are budget laptops available. Based on the Pentium Dual Core T2060 chip - it's an end of line chip now but more than capable of what you want to do. It only has 1M of L2 cache but it's a real bargain and gives a fair bang for the buck.
The one I just bought has a 15.4" widescreen, 1G ram T2060 Dual core x 1.6ghz DVD/CD RW+- 80G HDD and Intel 945 Mobile Chipset graphics/
Right now I have Photoshop, WS_FTP and Bittorrent running plus this browser with three tabs, another browser with three tabs, notepad, a command prompt and I am watching live TV through a Hauppage TV Stick USB thingy in the corner of the screen.
It's doing all that quite happily and its running Vista, which works sweet with USB TV Tuner thingies - something XP never did. And you don't need more than 1G of RAM if the first thing you do is cut out all the crap you don't want from Vista.
:)
Example:
Sony VAIO VGN-N220E/B Dual Core T2060 1.6GHz 1GB @ $416.16