laptop shopping help

Discussion in 'Off-Topic' started by Mad Mallard, Jan 17, 2007.

  1. Mad Mallard

    Mad Mallard the mad mallard

    Question for the tech heads, is $840 a good deal on a laptop with some of these specs?

    Athlon Turion 64 x2 TL56
    XP home
    15" widescreen
    512 ram
    Ati radeon xpress 1150 with 256mb ram
    85watt hour battery
    wireless b/g
     
  2. sti-mike

    sti-mike Member

    Brand new????
     
  3. Mad Mallard

    Mad Mallard the mad mallard

  4. goixiz

    goixiz Active Member

    hpshopping.com
    try that
     
  5. Mad Mallard

    Mad Mallard the mad mallard

    i tried to use it to make a comparison, but it was kinda a pain because it was wrapping up a 'mail in rebate.' x_x
     
  6. lostinthewoods

    lostinthewoods Frisco Tx Baller

    From what i have seen thats a little better than I have seen. Most prices for that chipset ...etc run around 1000.
     
  7. CHEMSOLDIER27

    CHEMSOLDIER27 Member

    It would be a goos idea that you make sure that its "Vista" ready. Also if you get from HP and its "Vista" ready they will upgrade it if I remeber right.
     
  8. Mad Mallard

    Mad Mallard the mad mallard

    i am simply and totally uninterested in 'vista'. ;p

    it offers me exactly nothing for the $$ its going to charge me.
     
  9. jayj713

    jayj713 Member

    i like >1GB ram but i guess thats not too bad
     
  10. Mad Mallard

    Mad Mallard the mad mallard

    i've had 2 offers to buy people's lap tops come my way. Sorry guys, i have no cash, this would be a payment plan...
     
  11. blink

    blink Member

    Well what are your main purposes for this notebook, Gaming? Movies? Office work? Video/Photography? Also if your going to use a payment plan, (and I hate to say this) but a slightly more powerful notebook might be in order. I just recently, (this past Christmas) got two notebooks for my mom, and sister, so if you would like, I can PM you those notebooks, and a few others. My moms was an uber-powerful notebook, and my sisters was a budget notebook.
     
  12. Mad Mallard

    Mad Mallard the mad mallard

    all of the above. I wanted a dual core computer for my next investment.

    but actually, my original question was if this was a good price for the type of specs i listed...
     
  13. blink

    blink Member

    its a decent price, but ive seen a few dual cores, that have geforce GO series of graphics cards, and a gig of ram for slightly more than that one.
     
  14. Demo24

    Demo24 Member

    If you can try for a core 2 duo. Its a bit faster than an Athlon at the moment. Though that is still a nice comp.
     
  15. Mad Mallard

    Mad Mallard the mad mallard

    i thought intel was always faster than AMD. ;p

    but just never fast enough to justify the price diff. ;p ;p
     

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