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Published on July 20, 2007

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Published on May 25, 2006

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07-14-2004 at 12:23:57 PM

Morning!

About two years ago I built my own PC - mainly for the use of playing games. Its a fairly good machine (at the time) - but I'm moving house now and leaving the PC with the person that will be staying in the house.

So - I need a new PC to go in my new pad. But I don't want a numb heavy machine that takes up loads of space and needs desk space etc etc like my old desktop did. I want a laptop. But I'm not very clued up on how much laptops cost and what they can achieve. I really only want the laptop to be able to surf the web (broadband and dial up), send emails, and now and again play some games (CM4, FM05 and some FPS type games), and some networking, probably wireless. Although - having said that - who knows what I'll want in the future...

I have a budget though - I'll struggle to make £1000 ($1800) - in fact thats a bit higher than I want to go. So the question is - what sorta laptop would I be able to get for my money, who are the good laptop makes (price/power) and would I be getting a fairly good machine for the money.

Anyone with any help/ideas - that would be cool

Thanks
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07-28-2004 at 11:30:49 AM

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How about the Dell 5150? Good Balance, I configured it like this for you.

Base Mobile Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with HT, 3.06GHz, 15inch SXGA+

Operating System Microsoft® Windows® XP Home

Memory 512MB DDR SDRAM 2 Dimms

Video Card 32MB DDR NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX Go5200 AGP 4x Graphics

Hard Drive 30GB

No Floppy Drive

FREE! 24X CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive

Wireless Networking Cards Dell® Wireless 1350 Internal Wireless

Productivity Software WordPerfect®-Powerful Word Processing

Security Software Norton Internet Security™, 90 day trial

Primary Battery 96 WHr Lithium-Ion Primary Battery

Carrying Cases Large Nylon Carrying Case for Inspiron Systems

Limited Warranty, Services and Support Options 2 Yrs Business Standard Plan

Digital Imaging or Digital Photography Paint Shop™ Pro® Trial plus Photo Album™ Starter Edition

Dell Media Experience Dell Media Experience™

Before Mail In Rebate: $1,729.00

After $150.00 Mail In Rebate

TOTAL: $1,579.00

Before Tax/Shipping of course.

You don't ahve to get the wireless card, it's not needed unless you plan to get a wireless router. The case isn't either, but even if you don't travel much at all... the one time you do travel, Airports REQUIRE these days that it is in a well padded case, plus it's only 60 bucks, with gel & foam padding to protect it.

Wanna know anything else, just ask.

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