Three laptops, but which one?

sr4470 said:
Vista runs like a dog because of the fact that laptop drives are half the speed of desktop ones.
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And a computer with 448MB on Vista won't?
My HTPC has a 2.5" for aboot, granted it's slower than 3.5" but it's not dog slow. 2GB of RAM in XP helps here.
 
sr4470 said:
Pentium 4-M 1.6s do exist, although I'm not sure if IBM used them for the T41..
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I know the P4-M exists, its the ThinkPad L41 that doesn't!

The T40 series were all Centrino. The short lived T30 is the only ThinkPad P4-M machine I'm aware of.
 
badbob said:
And a computer with 448MB on Vista won't?
My HTPC has a 2.5" for aboot, granted it's slower than 3.5" but it's not dog slow. 2GB of RAM in XP helps here.
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1->2GB didn't really make a huge difference, the disk speed was the limiting factor. Same with XP (except XP was quicker, but still obviously not as smooth as a 3.5' drive). I've found this with several laptops.

MagicBoy said:
The T40 series were all Centrino. The short lived T30 is the only ThinkPad P4-M machine I'm aware of.
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Fair enough.
 
Dell Vostro 1500 -

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor T5270 (1.40 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 2 MB L2-cache)
2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2x1024)
Integrated Intel® Graphic Media Accelerator X3100
120GB (5400rpm) SATA Hard Drive
Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive
Intel® Pro Wireless 3945 802.11a/b/g Mini-Card - Europe
15.4" Wide Screen WXGA (1280 x 800) Display
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic - English

£327

Deal expires 30th Jan
 
Triad2000 said:
I'd go for the IBM and avoid the celery personally
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Celeron used to be very bad but the name Celeron M 440 suggests to me that it's the newest revision based on Core architecture not netburst, so it's basically a 1.8Ghz C2D with only 1 core, which in fact performs miles better than a Mobile Pentium 4-M @ 1.6Ghz, it must be old I mean even my 4 year-old laptop comes with MP4-M 2Ghz.

So out of the three in OP I'd go for the Compaq, but if you like smaller screen go for the Samsung R20.
 
i feel we have distroyed this thread :( he only wanted to know what one of three and we have just thrown other options at him left, right and centre. though he'll probably walk away with a better deal now ;)
 
Thanks guys, you have helped a lot. I'm going to go with the compaq, although my heart says the IBM. I will post pics of my new lappy once it's ordered. Just joking.
 
Chaos said:
Dell Vostro 1500 -

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor T5270 (1.40 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 2 MB L2-cache)
2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2x1024)
Integrated Intel® Graphic Media Accelerator X3100
120GB (5400rpm) SATA Hard Drive
Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive
Intel® Pro Wireless 3945 802.11a/b/g Mini-Card - Europe
15.4" Wide Screen WXGA (1280 x 800) Display
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic - English

£327

Deal expires 30th Jan
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cant belive I missed this deal :mad: I'm in need of a laptop around that spec- price
 
TheVoice said:
DDR2 RAM is a cheap upgrade these days anyway - £26 or so for 2GB - so don't let the RAM sway your decision too much. :)
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WOW! :eek: i was going to say balls to what you said (lappy ram uber expensive as i mustve paid at least £120 ish for 2x 1 gig sticks about a year ago...and it was around £150 for 1 2 gig stick so i was well put off upgrading to 4 gig dual channel)

But i had a quick check and jesus... you're right i could upgrade my lappy to 4 gig no problem! for £60! (2 gig at the moment but going by these prices i could upgrade to 4 gig 2x2 no problem)

You reckon i will see a great improvement in anything moving from 2 gig to 4 gig?

thanks for the tip :D

edit: MM is right; keep an eye on the dell outlet for deals
 
had a quick gander at dell outlet (THEY HAVE 260+ laptops on there atm lol)

Inspiron 1720 CORE 2 DUO T5450 1.66GHz, 667, 2GIG RAM
English - Vista Business, DVDRW Drive
256 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

£417 inc vat good or bad?

similar one slightly different spec for £411
 
Chaos said:
Dell Vostro 1500 -

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor T5270 (1.40 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 2 MB L2-cache)
2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2x1024)
Integrated Intel® Graphic Media Accelerator X3100
120GB (5400rpm) SATA Hard Drive
Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive
Intel® Pro Wireless 3945 802.11a/b/g Mini-Card - Europe
15.4" Wide Screen WXGA (1280 x 800) Display
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic - English

£327

Deal expires 30th Jan
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saw at least 2 on the outlet with almost same or better spec for around £330 inc vat right now....

but i imagine they will be snapped up pretty quick

about 300 + laptops on there atm... get in there people!
 
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Chaos said:
Dell Vostro 1500 -

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor T5270 (1.40 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 2 MB L2-cache)
2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2x1024)
Integrated Intel® Graphic Media Accelerator X3100
120GB (5400rpm) SATA Hard Drive
Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive
Intel® Pro Wireless 3945 802.11a/b/g Mini-Card - Europe
15.4" Wide Screen WXGA (1280 x 800) Display
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic - English

£327

Deal expires 30th Jan
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I just bought this.. (below) Much of a difference the one above in comparison? Only asking as i was debating the one above for a few days.

Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo Mobile V5515 Laptop
Intel Pentium Dual-Core Processor T2130 1.86GHz
2048MB Memory
120GB HDD
DVDRW
15.4" WXGA TFT
Windows Vista Home Premium Edition

Total: £390.56
 
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