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Another School Laptop Q.

by Cortoza Jul 12, 2006 3:50PM PDT

Hello
Im looking here for which manufacture is good. Meaning which is REALLY durable and last me a long time. I thought Dell and HP but I wasn't sure so thats why I came here. Nothing thats super fast or anything like that and I dont want to spend near $1000. Thank you for your help.

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Go with a Mac....

by steve749 Jul 12, 2006 11:32PM PDT

That's my suggestion then. They aren't near $1000 so that is met unless you meant that you don't want to spend more than $1000 but that isn't what you said.

Any laptop now probably won't last a LONG time as things like Vista and other things coming will make it seem old in a few years possibly.

Regards,
JB

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Choices :

by Ghost26-20878886633866019035262628200812 Jul 12, 2006 11:59PM PDT

For school, I always recommend these models :

HP Pavilion dv5000t with nVIDIA GeForce Go 7400

Dell Inspiron 6400 / E1505 with ATi Mobility Radeon X1400.

Some Lenovo models. Even if Lenovo makes business laptops, the durability and founctionality can be very useful for a student.

MacBook Pro with ATi Mobility Radeon X1600.

Some Toshiba models ( preconfigured with a dedicated video controller ).

Always choose a dedicated GPU if you plan to upgrade to Windows Vista with AERO Glass Interface. This new interface will be heavier for the GPU than any other graphics interface of the previous Windows versions.

Take a Core Duo with at least 512 MB of RAM.

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