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  1. November 27th, 2003, 04:36 AM #1
    JohnHACK
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    How to Choose Laptop?

    Hi all, I'm Planning to buy a laptop in range of $1000. But i don't really expert in choosing laptop since we can't customise it by ourself. So, i need your idea what brand of laptop do you recomm me? how to choose? what processor? PIV, Centrino, Celeron, or AMD XP? What makes Centrino better than PIV? Since we know PIV is faster than Centrino, if we refer to Clock speed. What ghrapic chipset do you recomm me? ATI or NVIDIA?

    So far I have a few choices;
    Packard Bell
    AMD XP 2400+
    Integrated Graphic (Shared Mem)
    256MB DDR

    NEC
    Centrino 1.4Ghz
    Integrated Graphic(Shared Mem)
    256MB DDR

    BenQ
    Centrino 1.4GHz
    ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 32MB
    256MB DDR

    HP/Compaq
    PIV 2.2GHz
    Ati Radeon Chipset 64MB
    256MB DDR


    If Centrino 1.4GHz vs. PIV 2.4GHz, which one is faster, or in term of stability, can run many programs at one time. Why ?

    Thanks all...... I need your help....
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  2. November 27th, 2003, 04:52 AM #2
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    cross posting won't help.. it sometimes makes it worse.. I'd stick with the thread in hardware.
    http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=251482

    and I'd forget all those and try and get a sony or IBM.. you might have to add a few bucks 'tho
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  3. November 27th, 2003, 07:18 AM #3
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    One piece of advice.

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  4. November 27th, 2003, 10:34 AM #4
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    JohnHACK, I've deleted the other thread.
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  5. November 27th, 2003, 12:12 PM #5
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    What's Brand do you recommend me? IBM? NEC? HP? P.Bell? TOSHIBA?

    MsMittens, sorry about another treat that i did sent... coz i try to get more attention.... I will not do it again.
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  6. November 27th, 2003, 12:17 PM #6
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    What's Brand do you recommend me? IBM? NEC? HP? P.Bell? TOSHIBA?

    MsMittens, sorry about another thread that i did sent... coz i try to get more attention.... I will not do it again.
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  7. November 27th, 2003, 05:40 PM #7
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    toshiba's are good too.. I'd stay away from dell's, P bell's .. hp's might be ok (but i doubt it), NEC's are still questionable.. maybe ok.. really.. with a laptop, it's always a question of upgradablity, reliability, and the companies history of support.

    My overall choice would be an IBM.. for support and reliability..
    but I've always secretly wanted a sony vaio.. and sony has come a long way.
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