Laptops

popnstyle · Post by **popnstyle** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:51 pm

Well I am looking into getting a new one due to the fact my nephs decided my laptop was hungry and gave the fan vent a snack of gummyworms... In end it was unhealthy for it, though they didnt know for they are 3 and 2... But cause the lcd, video card, memory and cpu to short out. The warentie doesn't cover gummy worm dmg so with that said I am in the market for a new one in less then a year of owning that one.

I am looking for something I can game on aswell as 3d animation and such. Would like to go amd for the cpu and have atleast 2 gigs of ram. Prefear widescreen. What are your guys thaughts ?

Dont want to buy an acer agin I feel my last one was poorly designed in where the ports and such were on it (headphone jack was dead center of the front so if I wanted to have a headset on and playing with it on my lap I allmost would pierce my navel on the headphone jack)

BoneofMalkav · Post by **BoneofMalkav** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:41 pm

0.0 *trying best to hold back laughing*

I'm sorry but just the fact they fed your laptop gummy worms... LMAO

anyways look for other companys besides ACER and Dell laptops.We all heard the storys of dell's pos laptops.Acer's are ok but as stated they are a bit flimsy in some areas.Just know one thing though when you go shopping for another lappy

Avoid Dell...............
And their onion rings....

Chuckles · Post by **Chuckles** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 4:43 am

Bite your tongue, my Dell laptop's far better than that pos Compaq i had, it's not cutting edge or anything, but at least it runs fine, i mean, ok i cant run ut on it, oh well.

Avoid Compaq and HP, Dell is prolly too expensive anyways (and ever since they went with east indian phone support, a pain in the ass to deal with, truley pathetic when you know more than the tech support people, didnt use to be true, used to be some uber smart peeps in texas, alas the undereducated and inexperianced are cheaper to pay for.). Look around where you live, you may have a local shop that makes their own and has a great support policy, ask around if u find a possible, see what kind of rep they have, call your local BBB. Used to be Costco was a good spot to get one semi-affordably priced, but they changed their policies recently, no clue if they are worth the bother now.

popnstyle · Post by **popnstyle** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 11:33 am

Price isnt a facter... The last one I baught was the TravelMate 8200 (when it was new last year) just over 2k for it, I used to think that alienware might have something nice going for them but if I recall, Dell baught them out.

(this is the travelmate's specs)
* Intel Core Duo 2.0GHz processor (Intel Yonah processor)
* 2GB RAM 533/677
* 15.4" WXGA screen
* Seagate 120GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive
* ATI Radeon X1600 256MB (256 dedicated while 256MB can be borrowed from main memory)
* DVD-DL Burner
* Built-in 1.3 Mega pixel camera, with 225-degree swivel ability
* New Intel Pro wireless 3945 a/b/g
* Built-in VOIP capability
* Weight of 6.6lbs
* Approximately 6 hours of batterylife (87W 7800mAH )
* Carbon Fiber finish lid

General-Chainz · Post by **General-Chainz** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 11:40 am

depends on what your using it for i guess. I jus got a cheap 1 from walmart its a Acer but it has a gig a ram ATI 256 video AMD64cpu not alot of memory only 30 gigs for $600 . Got it for my wife she jus surfs the web checks email so its well capable of that. It does play unreal real good actually ....but it doesnt like later waves in Joeys server for sum reason. Any other server its fine

. Only problem I have with it is its Vista.

Doesnt even compare to my desktop

BoneofMalkav · Post by **BoneofMalkav** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:20 pm

Chuckles wrote:Bite your tongue, my Dell laptop's far better than that pos Compaq i had, it's not cutting edge or anything, but at least it runs fine, i mean, ok i cant run ut on it, oh well.

Avoid Compaq and HP, Dell is prolly too expensive anyways (and ever since they went with east indian phone support, a pain in the ass to deal with, truley pathetic when you know more than the tech support people, didnt use to be true, used to be some uber smart peeps in texas, alas the undereducated and inexperianced are cheaper to pay for.). Look around where you live, you may have a local shop that makes their own and has a great support policy, ask around if u find a possible, see what kind of rep they have, call your local BBB. Used to be Costco was a good spot to get one semi-affordably priced, but they changed their policies recently, no clue if they are worth the bother now.

*bites tongue* what'th netht on the litht

Compaq imo never made good laptops anyway.Descent PC's with only minor flaws though