[Conor Ryan]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

I checked the discountlaptop site - holy cow! that place is expensive

http://www.discountlaptops.com/index...clude_type=141

$1200 for a laptop with a cheap battery, that doenst even come with windows? you can get one from Dell or gateway or HP for $600 with the same HW/RAM/HD with windows installed.

Something is not right there!

you guys got me wishing for a new laptop now! Thinking of this one:

http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/sh...true&tab=specs

$629 W/ window home XP and free shipping.

Oh yeah Discountlaptops was expensive, your better off checking ebay out for an Acer Ferrari (my DREAM laptop) the hardware is built for a performance/gaming laptop. It's AMD (therefore better for CAD and Gaming) based and its got a whole lot of Ram and Awesome Video

On the budget laptops, about 2 months ago I got a HP ZV600 for a grand total of....$450, yes Office Depot had 3 $100 rebates and a $50 dollar one too, I priced the very same laptop out online for $1000. It's got nice specs too and is AMD based (i got the Athlon 64-M 3200+) and has Dedicated Video unlike its cousin the V2000 linky