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Need a sweet multimedia/gaming laptop - little $$ Barebones?

Sep 23, 2004 1:35AM PDT

I'm looking for 128mb dedicated video,
at least 15.4" uxga or sxga screen
centrino 1.6 or p4 3.0 - 3.4
2mb L2 cache
at least 60 gig HD, spinning at minimum 5400 rpm

The thing is, being a student I don't have the cash flow to be able to afford an acer 2025 or a toshiba P25-s676. Does anyone have any opinion or information regarding companies/sites that build barebones kits for you? I've put some virtual notebooks together for a bit less money than a name-brand model with similar performance, but i don't know if the components they stick in their will necessarily work perfectly together. Also, do OEM versions of windows work any better with the particular model than a retail version? Are you missing anything with a retail version?

If anyone can help me out with this, I will be very grateful. Thanks!
-chris

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Re: Need a sweet multimedia/gaming laptop - little $$ Barebo
Sep 23, 2004 1:45AM PDT

Oh yeah - I forgot to mention, I also need a DVD+/-RW/CDRW drive built in...

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Re: Need a sweet multimedia/gaming laptop - little $$ Barebo
Sep 26, 2004 12:41PM PDT

Can you give a price range your trying to stay within?? Unfortunately this is one area of computing where you dont want to cut corners. If you have $1000 to spend, that might get most of your needs/requirements met, but price will judge what you can or cant get on your rig.

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Re: Need a sweet multimedia/gaming laptop - little $$ Barebo
Sep 27, 2004 10:24AM PDT

Obviously I would like to spend as little as possible while meeting the specs I listed. I'd like to keep it around $1,500, but from what I've seen i think i may have to drop closer to $1700 or $1800...
Do you know of any particularly inexpensive sites?