[JMT74]

I am looking to buy a new laptop and wanna know what people think about this particular deal and I should look for in buy a laptop. I know the more RAM the better. Here is the Dell Laptop I was looking at. There is an arrow pointing to the one I am looking into. Thanks. You will have to click on the image to zoom on it.

[jls242424]

Originally Posted by JMT74

I am looking to buy a new laptop and wanna know what people think about this particular deal and I should look for in buy a laptop. I know the more RAM the better. Here is the Dell Laptop I was looking at.Thanks.

Pretty good specs and price to. Hopefully you'll be able to pay more then the $20 a month or that lappie will end up costing you $3 to $4 grand and you'll be done paying for it in about 6 to 8 yrs.. Carefull, they like to try and soak you for a costly extended warranty. It's already got a yr or so warranty already.

[DoubleHelix]

It's an average laptop. Whether it's best for you depends on what you plan to use it for. There's also no mention of the video adapter included. At that price, it'll be at the low end. Fine for general use. Won't work for gaming.

[name is guy]

try looking at micro center deals on refurbished with warranty's i got a nice 700$ satellite laptop for less than half that. I helps to bring grandmothers with you.

[hewee]

Save up and pay cash for it and you save so much money.

[JMT74]

I am looking to buy a new laptop and wanna know people experiences with their laptops. What manufacterer is best? I am looking probably to get a Dell but I can be persuaded to go with another manufacterer. Thanks.

[jls242424]

Originally Posted by JMT74

I am looking to buy a new laptop and wanna know people experiences with their laptops. What manufacterer is best? I am looking probably to get a Dell but I can be persuaded to go with another manufacterer. Thanks.

You ask a loaded question Everyone will have a different answer. You don't say what your budget is or how big a screen or what you want to do with it. Just surfing the web, e-mail, some photo stuff and watch youtube or are you into gaming. Two different animals that require two different systems. Once you get all that info together then look around at Amazon, Tigerdirect, http://tinyurl.com/22nqvn ect ect and a half dozen others http://shop4.frys.com/template/notebook that I'm sure will be mentioned in this thread. http://tinyurl.com/cppump Personally I'd go for a Toshiba or HP over Dell and I'd stick with 32bit for now.

[JMT74]

Yeah I should have stated a few things. Well my budget is around $700 or so. I would like to get a 16:9 widescreen. I kinda dig those. Obviously the more RAM the better. I am thinking 4gb atleast.

[JohnWill]

There are VERY FEW reasons to require more than 2gig of memory, and adding the additional memory will run up the cost with no real benefit. I'd be looking at other attributes like video with it's own independent memory, processor speed, I/O connections, battery life, weight, etc.

[jls242424]

Originally Posted by JMT74

Yeah I should have stated a few things. Well my budget is around $700 or so. I would like to get a 16:9 widescreen. I kinda dig those. Obviously the more RAM the better. I am thinking 4gb atleast.

Lots of systems in your price range come with 3G's of memory (As Vista needs that much) which is all you'll need and most laptop screens are now widescreen as the standard. (16:9) I was refering to do you want a 15"-16"-17" screen. I've got a 16" Toshiba Satellite 355D. http://i43.tinypic.com/2qbxchx.jpg Most laptops over 16" are going to start running into some serious cash if it's a new laptop and most always will come with processors that will be up to snuff for your needs. Good luck in your choice.

[JohnWill]

Vista doesn't need 3gigs, you're reading too many naysayers opinions. I run Vista with 2gig of memory, and even running a VM with 512mb reserved and a number of applications, I don't have memory usage for all the available RAM.

[JMT74]

Well I definately believe that the more RAM you have the better. Especially for future apps. etc. you will probably need more memory to run a bunch of them at the same time. I had 256 on this computer and that wasnt enough so I got 512. Now that doesn't seem to be enough for what I wanna do but my computer has RDRAM and I'm not spending $300 to go from 512mb to 1gb but that is another story lol. What should I be looking for in a video graphics card?

[jls242424]

Originally Posted by JohnWill

Vista doesn't need 3gigs, you're reading too many naysayers opinions. I run Vista with 2gig of memory.

You go with your 2gigs and I'll keep my 3 You can never have enough memory..

[jls242424]

Originally Posted by JMT74

Well I definately believe that the more RAM you have the better. Especially for future apps. etc. you will probably need more memory to run a bunch of them at the same time. I had 256 on this computer and that wasnt enough so I got 512. Now that doesn't seem to be enough for what I wanna do but my computer has RDRAM and I'm not spending $300 to go from 512mb to 1gb

For $300 you can buy a new desktop with way more then 256. I didn't know a computer if built within the last 4 yrs would even run with only 256MB of Ram.. Come on into the SDRAM pool. The waters fine.

[JohnWill]

You can always add memory at a very reasonable price to a modern laptop, but if you buy one with shared memory for the video, it'll have poor video performance for the life of the machine, there's no upgrade path. The same with interface connections like Bluetooth, Firewire, 802.11n wireless, etc.

Specifying a laptop is the same as when you're building a house, let the builder add the extras that are difficult or impossible to add after the fact, and you can later paint the rooms any color you like.