Preparing for college...

lostdude · **Preparing for college... -** 10-23-2005, 03:04 PM

I'm planning on getting a laptop before I head to college but I can't find a place to customize it the way I want it; i/e without all the extra crap.

I want it with an AMD 64 processor, at least 1G RAM, and a nice graphics card.

I'll buy an external hard drive because I don't need all my games and music with me and I can cram the internal one with school stuff.

I was looking at HP because they have the expansion dock with the internal 160G HD, charging capabilities, and a lot of ports for various media/whatever. And they're one of the few companies I've seen which offer the AMD processor.

I'd love to spend under $1500 on the laptop itself. Any help/advice or should I just take out a loan and sell my siblings into slavery?

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lostdude · 10-23-2005, 03:07 PM

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Akuma · 10-23-2005, 03:29 PM

P-Ms are superior to A64 Turions in terms of battery life. They are usually cheaper too. But either are great.

Get a Dell i9300. You can get a good P-M, up to 2GB of RAM, and a Go6800.

If that's out of your price range, maybe look at Acer or ABS with 9700s in them. You can probably get one for under $1500.

lostdude · 10-23-2005, 03:50 PM

battery life isn't too important as long as I have a cable, I can just find an outlet.

I've already looked at dell but I'll check that one out and I'm going to look at an acer too. Alienware made my wallet cry.....

jujumantb · 10-23-2005, 04:00 PM

I'd stay with a desktop for college unless you get some great upgrade-trade-in deal for a laptop. Nobody brings them to class, a few bring them to the library, but they have computers there anyways. Much more economical to get a desktop for colleger IMO

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Coleman · 10-23-2005, 04:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jujumantb

I'd stay with a desktop for college unless you get some great upgrade-trade-in deal for a laptop. Nobody brings them to class, a few bring them to the library, but they have computers there anyways. Much more economical to get a desktop for colleger IMO

I bought an HP Pavilion dv1000 for school. I really couldn't see myself with a desktop. It makes things so much easier when going home for a weekend/break by just packing up a power chord and your notebook. We also have wireless internet at various parts of campus which makes it alot easier to pass the time inbetween classes when I don't feel like going back to the dorms.

c312 · 11-07-2005, 05:28 PM

http://www.abspc.com

not sure if they will help or not.

Pyro · 11-07-2005, 05:43 PM

intel > amd

Sniper101 · 11-07-2005, 06:30 PM

hp's are a good choice as far as being able to customize them w/out all the extra shit. I brought my desktop here and it works pretty well, with a few downfalls, #1 its a btich to lug around biggrin: 2 the internet is as slow as hell here, most ive seen a DL in my room is 56.3K and they FORCE McAfee which couldnt be any more fucking annoying in terms of EVERYTHING about it. so make sure your school doesnt force McAfee, that way you dont buy a $50 1 license 1 year subscription to Norton, which is by FAR better

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