Suggestions on Buying a New Laptop

the Dell Inspiron 9100 and am very pleased with it (except for that darn "i" key I broke when "trying" to swat a fly ). It has a 3.2 P4 with a gig of memory and a 100gb drive. Their newer model is supposed to run Media. Check it out.

and life goes on...


Jack

I think all PC's are pretty much alike. They all use components which are furnished by sub-contractors. There
are, however, things that you can get in your new machine which will simplify your life.

One thing is to get at least 512 mB of RAM. Nothing less is much good at running WinXP and games. 1gB is a reasonable upgrade which you can easily do. Make sure that your new machine has slots for additional RAM.

An upgraded sound card is nice for downloading music and
playing the sounds which run with games. This is something you can do yourself.

Basically, the fastest processer you can afford, enough RAM, a video card for games and a sound card would be nice.

Most PC's come with hard drives that are multi-gB. Go with the biggest you can afford.

The things which I think are important are all up-grades that you can do.

I personally don't like laptops and I'd stick with more powerful desktops. For one, they're cheaper than laptops intially, and they don't overheat when put in heavy use. Of course, I'm guessing that you're going to be bringing it around.
You'll want something with Omph.
Pentium4
At least 512mb RAM
and depending on how much you think you'll need it. 40, 80, 100, 120GB of HDD.
And a good video card to play MoH. At least 128MB of Vid ram. maybe low end 256mb if you can afford it or if it's a priority.

I don't think you should go with a Dell. or another eMachine. I've had good tidings with Toshiba and acer. Best of luck!...
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IMHO, don't get a P4 powered laptop. It's hot and battery sucking processor. I have many laptops w/ diff. processors (celeron, p3, p4, Pentium M and AMD Athlon 4000+). For daily use & business use, I still prefer pentium M since it runs cool (no fan noise) and battery last over 6 hours wiht my Compaq V2000. But many gamers and graphic people like the the 64 bits AMD Athlon. My newest laptop is the COmpaq R4000 with 1gig ram, 128 ATI Radeon, AMD Athlon 4000+ and it cost about 1300. I don't like it that much because of the weight. But it runs a bit cooler than P4 and battery last a little longer than P4. But still around 2 hour marks so not really to my preference.