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best buy laptop for home users

Sep 8, 2004 3:39PM PDT

Hi All,

I am residing in Hyderabad, INDIA. I want to purchase laptop for my desktop replacement. I want to use such laptop for 2 years down the line and I am giving top priority to performance than weight and wireless features. I want to use this laptop for home purpose and ocassionaly business purposes. I can invest upto 1 lakh indian rupees. Basically I use this laptop for running memory hungry IBM products like IBM MQ, WebSphere, WSAD etc. which consume min. of 512 MB RAM and more cpu.

Can anyone suggest me the best buy laptop model no.s with their vendor/brand name for my above requirements ?

Thanks & Regards,
Ravi.

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Re: best buy laptop for home users
Sep 8, 2004 10:09PM PDT

Given how difficult it is to find repair and parts for laptops, your focus should be on models that have support in your country.

Bob

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Re: best buy laptop for home users
Sep 9, 2004 4:40AM PDT

Since you are discounting wi-fi and battery life/weight you are discounting the Pentium M (Centrino) line that is best for that purpose right now.

Intel and AMD are both developing 2 cpu 64bit chips right now that will appear next year or later and will blow the Pentium 4M right out of the water. Also, they will be more power efficient than the Pentium 4M as well.

So, if you really don't value what the Pentium M Centrino line offers now you may be very disappointed in 1 year or less buying anything right now when those 64bit 2 cpu chips hit (which will allow true multitasking -- burning DVD on one CPU and doing another intensive task at the same time on another cpu).

Expecially now with Microsoft Longhorn 64bit to appear in late 2006 or 2007 you will not get more than 2 years productive use out of any notebook you buy now.

So, if you spend between $1,000 and $1,500 you can get a nice notebook that will serve you for 2 years.

Otherwise, you are wasting your money.