Laptop Required

Conanius

Conanius

Conanius

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Just about to start a new job, and i've been told to order myself a laptop.

I was gonna get one of those sony vaio ar21 s jobbies, but in honesty, I've decided I want something a bit more streamlined.

Requirements are

2 Gig Ram
Decent speed processor
good screen
small as possible
DVD drive
decent graphics + sound
100 gig or so of HDD space
long battery life

Value wise, I can apparently spend up to 2k, but ideally less (say 1000-1300)

appreciate any suggestions !
 
Check out the Samsung Q70 or the Samsung Q45, good build quality with Santa Rosa processors and 2GB RAM. Both are under £1K, by decent graphics, do you mean you're going to be gaming a lot?
 
kbc said:
Check out the Samsung Q70 or the Samsung Q45, good build quality with Santa Rosa processors and 2GB RAM. Both are under £1K, by decent graphics, do you mean you're going to be gaming a lot?
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sorry to be ignorant, but santa rosa?

as for graphics, I might do some slight gaming on the train or whatever, but obv aware it wont be compareble to a home pc performance
 
Conanius said:
sorry to be ignorant, but santa rosa?

as for graphics, I might do some slight gaming on the train or whatever, but obv aware it wont be compareble to a home pc performance
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Santa rosa is the new chipset from intel featuring C2D processors.
 
It depends what you're going to be doing on your laptop, but if it's for work I wouldn't bother with a consumer-level machine. Buy an HP or IBM/Lenovo which has a 3 year business class warranty. The spec might not match up to a consumer-level unit, but the build quality, built-in security (very important for business use and often over-looked), reliability and standard of warranty will typically be far superior. I'd recommend something like an HP nc8430 which has a magnesium alloy frame, C2D, fingerprint scanner, WSXGA+ resolution, 15.4" widescreen, etc. They are a bit large so if you really need a small unit, HP and Lenovo both do alternatives with 12" and 14" screens.
 
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phykell said:
It depends what you're going to be doing on your laptop, but if it's for work I wouldn't bother with a consumer-level machine. Buy an HP or IBM/Lenovo which has a 3 year business class warranty. The spec might not match up to a consumer-level unit, but the build quality, built-in security (very important for business use and often over-looked), reliability and standard of warranty will typically be far superior. I'd recommend something like an HP nc8430 which has a magnesium alloy frame, C2D, fingerprint scanner, WSXGA+ resolution, 15.4" widescreen, etc. They are a bit large so if you really need a small unit, HP and Lenovo both do alternatives with 12" and 14" screens.
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I have another laptop for 'proper' work use which will be something along those lines, this is just a 'perk' laptop that I can have for if im working away from home for a while so I can do whatever I want on it still
 
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