laptop for college

zomg · **Posted:** Fri Jan 28, 2005 12:20 pm

thsi year is my last year of HS and im goin to college in the fall, myu parents are gonna buy me a laptop and im wondering which type i should get?

which is better? centino 1.8ghz? pentium 4 3.4 ghz
both have 1024mb of ram

i have also heard of turion but thats not out yet

Tony · **Posted:** Fri Jan 28, 2005 12:55 pm

Centrino. Lighter, cooler and have a longer battery life.

If you're conserned with not having enough megahurtz, get yourself a desktop.

But if you actually intend on moving around with your laptop - size and weight become a very significant factor.

wtd · **Posted:** Fri Jan 28, 2005 2:26 pm

Andy · **Posted:** Fri Jan 28, 2005 3:49 pm

wait for the turion.. btw, whats ur budget?

josh · **Posted:** Fri Jan 28, 2005 3:59 pm

I m guessing turion is going to be AMD's competitor for the Centrino?

zomg · **Posted:** Sat Jan 29, 2005 12:32 am

Andy wrote:

wait for the turion.. btw, whats ur budget?

$2000 and under

josh · **Posted:** Sat Jan 29, 2005 12:47 am

then I would seriously consider getting a nice powerbook (very small and light)

Neo · **Posted:** Sat Jan 29, 2005 12:48 am

Dont mind my noob question but why are the centrino laptops so expensive? Even at 1.0ghz it costs more than some pentium 4 3.2ghz.

wtd · **Posted:** Sat Jan 29, 2005 12:49 am

"¢ 512MB DDR266 SDRAM (256MB built-in & 256MB SO-DIMM)
"¢ 60GB Ultra ATA drive
"¢ Combo drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW)
"¢ AirPort Extreme Card
"¢ Keyboard & Mac OS X - U.S. English
"¢ APP for iBook - Enrollment Kit
"¢ 12-inch TFT XGA display
"¢ 1.2GHz PowerPC G4
"¢ ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 w/ 32MB DDR video memory

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Dan · **Posted:** Sat Jan 29, 2005 12:50 am

Well it realy depedns on what u are planing on doing with this laptop. Like for just tyeping up documents, almost anything will work hosntly. If u are planing on taking it to every class and it is just for school things like notes then u should be looking for light and protobal. If it is for more then notes and u need somthing to test crazy theroys realting to progaming and like to game, then u whount somting with power over probotiblity.

wtd · **Posted:** Sat Jan 29, 2005 1:06 am

Wow... just did a search to see if I could fid something decent on the x86 side of things and everything's either horrifically overpriced or underspecced. $1600CAD notebooks with "upto" 3.5 hours of battery life? That's pathetic.

And those are the power efficient models!

Paul · **Posted:** Sat Jan 29, 2005 10:44 am

My plan is for the high performance needs I'll get a good desktop. And with the difference in price between a good laptop and a good desktop, I'll buy a crappy laptop. For school stuff and moving around, ie: word processing.

zomg · **Posted:** Sat Jan 29, 2005 11:37 am

Hacker Dan wrote:

Well it realy depedns on what u are planing on doing with this laptop. Like for just tyeping up documents, almost anything will work hosntly. If u are planing on taking it to every class and it is just for school things like notes then u should be looking for light and protobal. If it is for more then notes and u need somthing to test crazy theroys realting to progaming and like to game, then u whount somting with power over probotiblity.

ill definitly be bringing the laptop around with me, and i wont really need it for gaming cuz my desktop servers that purpose. so i guess ill go with the centrino, the one im looking at has only like a 13 inch screen so its really small $1699.99

josh · **Posted:** Sat Jan 29, 2005 11:39 am

I would go with the mac then if you are not going for gaming, from what I have seen of them, they are really small and light and extremely powerfull.

What program are you going into in university?

MihaiG · **Posted:** Sat Jan 29, 2005 1:11 pm

there is also the tablet PC its a laptop that flips arounf and works like a palm pilot

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