hey guys im looking into buying a laptop and my reasons for use will be photo imaging, video editing, music, and maybee playing a game, and school. Any suggestions or anything on what to buy or what to look for? i want windows media center for sure, and amd processor.
Are you planning to do heavy duty imaging, editing or gaming or just stuff for kicks? iBooks are out of the question since you want MCE.
go for dell i brought mine, i paid abt 1,400 $$ and no interest for 6 months paying 41 dollers a month, and mine has windows media center, can edit full video's imaging, music, student, games, schooling, but i had too many options to make it go 1400$$ like 60 gb hard drive on 7200 rpm, etc etc etc for major video editing.. also for tuning my car, running set ups, etc etc etc.. i think it will be worthit..
Since you are looking at video editing, look for a laptop with a dual core processor. Lenovo (used to be ibm) as well as Dell, Compaq/HP all sell reasonably priced dual core processor based laptops. Also consider that you can upgrade memory and harddrives in almost any laptop, video processors (i.e. discrete processors by AMD and Intel) are usually not upgradable nor are CPU's. So. if your going to cut costs somewhere now, make it in harddrive size and memory rather than CPU or GPU...
well i really like the apple computers they are just to dang expensive. im looking to spend at most a grand. i was figuring to get a good processor, im looking at the AMD 64 truino(sp?). I was at work(bestbuy) today and was talking to one of the people that work in computers and they showed me a compaq computer that they said is great and especially for the price of 750.00. Its the V5120NR. I mean i really want to be able to go to a place with wireless net and just hop on. thats my biggest thing. the specs are: Product Details Warranty Terms - Parts 1 year limited Warranty Terms - Labor 1 year limited Product Height 1.8" Product Width 14.1" Product Weight 6.4 lbs. Product Depth 10.2" Processor Brand AMD Turion 64 Processor Speed 1.8GHz Display Type WXGA high-definition widescreen with BrightView technology (1280 x 800) Screen Size 15.4" System Bus Up to 1600MHz Cache Memory 512KB on die Level 2 System Memory (RAM) 512MB System Memory (RAM) Expandable To 2GB Type of Memory (RAM) PC2700 DDR Hard Drive Size 80GB Optical Drive Double-layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Optical Drive Speeds Drive speeds not available LightScribe Compatibility No Digital Media Reader or Slots No Diskette Drive No Graphics ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M IGP Video Memory 128MB DDR (shared) Personal Video Recorder (PVR) No TV Tuner No MPEG Yes Modem 56 Kbps* *Capable of receiving 56 Kbps downloads. However, current regulations limit download speed to 53 Kbps. Networking Built-in 10/100Base-T Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector) Wireless Networking Built-in 54g high-speed wireless LAN (802.11b/g) with 125HSM/ SpeedBooster support S-Video Outputs 1 Audio Altec Lansing PCMCIA Slots 1 ExpressCard/54 USB 2.0 Ports 2 IEEE 1394 FireWire Ports None Parallel Ports None Serial Ports None Game Ports None Notebook Weight Standard (more than 6 lbs.) Battery Type Lithium-ion Pointing Device Touchpad with dedicated vertical and horizontal scroll up/down pad Operating System Windows XP Home SP2 Included Software Microsoft Works, Money, Windows Movie Maker, Windows Media Player; Adobe Acrobat Reader; Sonic DigitalMedia Plus; muvee autoProducer DVD Edition with Burning; HP Photosmart Premier and more
the only thing i do monthly on is my car, i will never just make payments on pidly things like this. I have the money to just drop on one right now. thanks ming im gonna look on there alittle bit. Alex, i heard they have software coming out to make some apple things compatible with windows? i dunno....i just want garage band!
they now have an intel chip and can run windows as an os. i have a peer to peer program that lets my mac and pc be on the same network and share simular files. .doc .mpeg .mp3 .wav and so on. too bad it only works on 9.2 and older mac oses. the computer you mentioned is almost exactly what i had in my dell laptop but it had a centreno chip. i loved it and didnt bog it once. one thing i would sugest is get a laptop bag thats got some padding to it. dont wanna bang around your new laptop as you go like i did.
the thing is i will be done before the 6 months r over.. so no interest for me u know but it gives ya time to finish it up like 1st month is 41 next month is 500 and etc etc btw if u go www.dell.com they got this offer going on. free upgraded ram, dual core pro, and 60 gb drive 5200 rpm or sumthing but i upgraded mine to 60 gb 7500 rpm.. so it runs faster for video editing.. it's recmended from dell...over all i got my laptop today will post some reviews..
cool, thanks jt. yea i have a nice bag already as i had an older laptop a while back i used until the HD crashed.
dell or compaq are fine for win machines. i have 3 dell laptops and not a single problem (and one of them has even been dropped). $1K is a bit on the low side for something that can quickly edit video, though it can be done reasonably. check the actual clock speed of the amd chipset you're looking at. the intel M chips that have a "mark" of 1.7G but actually clock up to 2.2G (there's a reason apple is switching to intel chips).