Thread: Which laptop?

Eee PC would be good. Top end go for the 13" MacBook which would top out your budget. Don't forget to get educational price on what ever you buy for her as this should save about 10% more.

Dell do some quite nice 'pretty' laptops that are fairly well specced.

The studio range looks good

Dell Studio 17 Laptop

Within budget aswell.

Dell also have good customer service.

I have a Dell, and a HP laptop, Both CAD spec machines but the HP which is my work machine is very dissapointing. It had had to be rebuilt twice in the 18months I have had it. My Dell has basically never had a problem and is a couple of years older. On that basis I wouldn't run a HP with my own money.

Windows 7 looks good too, if thats available on the Dells I dont know.

I went to hardly normal's after work today for a look.

I find the whole electronics store thing assaulting. Buying a Dell seems quite a serene experience

Originally Posted by procrastination inc

I went to hardly normal's after work today for a look.

I find the whole electronics store thing assaulting. Buying a Dell seems quite a serene experience

Get one of the low end macbooks with the education discount. It will seem more expensive up front but it will be cheaper in the long run if you value your money and time. Also, mac laptops tend to have a much longer functional life than pc laptops.

Don't miss the fact that the mac has a 7 hour battery in it which is good for 1000 cycles (not the normal 300) and there is a huge saving on its own. In 18 months when your daughter is complaining that her laptop needs to be constantly tethered to the power the mac will still be running off batteries far better than a dell ever will have.

Oh, and you'll get snow leopard for less than $20 bucks whereas MS will likely charge far more than that for Vista Fixed. When you update to the new OS you'll get an extra 7gb back on your HDD too

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

Get one of the low end macbooks with the education discount. It will seem more expensive up front but it will be cheaper in the long run if you value your money and time. Also, mac laptops tend to have a much longer functional life than pc laptops.

Don't miss the fact that the mac has a 7 hour battery in it which is good for 1000 cycles (not the normal 300) and there is a huge saving on its own. In 18 months when your daughter is complaining that her laptop needs to be constantly tethered to the power the mac will still be running off batteries far better than a dell ever will have.

Oh, and you'll get snow leopard for less than $20 bucks whereas MS will likely charge far more than that for Vista Fixed. When you update to the new OS you'll get an extra 7gb back on your HDD too

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Wot he said. I paid about 2200 for the 160 gig Macbook 18 months ago. The new 320 gig equivalent ali case one is 1900 full price. The edu discount would bring that down.

They are a delight to use.

cheers, DL

For Uni go a mac but if you must get a micropowered intel/AMD, WAIT till after the new operating system windows i7 comes out as it is supposed to be much better and smoother than vista , or get a laptop with xp if you need one straight away and upgrade to 7 later.

I can vouch for the new Macbook battery life. Fantastic!!!!

Panasonic Toughbook CF-18, just superseded by the CF-19. Worth $6,500 new, can pick one up for around $1,000. Touch screen, titanium alloy body, long battery life - no cooling fans, as it dissipates heat through the body. No internal CD drive though, as it's compact and folds back to be a tablet. Nowadays it's all USB drives anyway. In built wireless too.



did I mention it was water proof.







Makes a great "Land Rover" Computer