[thelist] laptop purchase
William Anderson
neuro at well.com
Wed May 12 09:35:36 CDT 2004
Dan McCullough wrote:
> Looking to purchase a laptop for someone else. I have been burnt by
> laptops before and usually only go with the Toshiba or IBM Thinkpad.
> They need something that will work easy (non-tech people, somewhat
> computer literate), and not have much problem. So I was looking at a
> Dell with Windows XP Home. Also they have a budget.
Spend the extra $20 or whatever and get XP Professional, if you must get a
Windows operating system with it at all. XP Home is a joke.
> Here is what they need it for. Audio recording and burning, power point
> presentations and a few other small things. They would also like to
> possibly burn Digital Video.
Mmm, Firewire. My Dell Latitude X300 has onboard USB2, Firewire and with
the Media Bay also has a DVD-ROM/CD-RW (upgradable to a DVD-RW). The build
quality is quite good for a Dell (actually a Samsung build these days) - I
remember the older PII and P/// Latitudes which has flimsy screen hinges and
felt like they should have been shipped in a mass of bubble wrap and have
the pixels licked onto the screen by kittens.
> Any thoughts, on what I should look for and at, any experiences. Should
> I forgo the Pent 4 HT processor and go for a Pent M processor?
If you don't mind the power supply being plugged into the laptop a lot, go
for a P4, else go for a PM. Intel are scrapping a suite of Pentium 4 and
Xeon parts to concentrate on the Pentium Mobile core, as it's better at
power management and heat dissipation than the full-fat P4 - the main
problems they've been having lately, cf. Prescott.
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