Laptops

[RyanMcE]

Originally Posted by MikeWasHere05

I think between the Pavilion/Presario it's going to come down to the feel/look of the laptop. My grandma has a Gateway laptop with the clearest screen ever. Instead of that normal LCD look, it's got a gleen to it. You can actually see your reflection in the screen.

Speaking of which, I have a friend with a Gateway Athlon 64 Laptop with a screen like you describe. It is very, very nice to look at... unless it;s at the wrong angle, in which case the light reflects off of it jut right and you can't see anything. So there are tradeoffs, but it definitely increases the oooh/ahhhh factor. But if you decide to do that way, just make sure that the reflectivity is actaully what you want. Oh, and she also says that the battery release is a tad too easy to hit accidently, so she has literally had her battery fall out of the computer accidentally. That has never happened to me on my HPs or Compaqs.

Good luck with the decision - any of those notebooks will be fine machines.