What Laptops do you recommend?

[vivek16]

Originally Posted by blakcheez

The decision of choosing between those processor speeds are akin to the question of which car you buy. Sorta. The faster it is, the better things run. Actually, that car bit was an outright lie. Just a side note, if you're playing higher-end games such as BF2, CoD2, ET:QW, and so on, then 1.66 may not deliver that well. I've got a dual core 1.60 with 2 GB of RAM, and it's barely running my games on Low/Medium-Low. Then again, it is a laptop with sucky integrated graphics, but 1.6 GHz dual core on a desktop would still let you "just get by".

Although I do understand your position, since I'm trying to build a gaming machine on part time wages, try to find some good deals and treat yourself to at least the 1.83. You'll be glad you did.

http://www.tigerdirect.com
http://www.newegg.com [Recommended]
http://www.ebay.com [Not-So-Recommended, But Still An Option]

Last but not least, the RAM is more than sufficient for what you'll be doing, and the video card sounds like it's good. Kudos in those departments. BTW, what's the video card model? If you need assistance, I might just help you out with buying your processor, really got nothing else but robotics to spend my money on!

thanks a lot, but I was looking at the dell vostro 1500 (i know I want it) and it works out to 729 added up for the laptop with 1.83 ghz c2d processor
PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7100 (1.8GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB)
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic edit
LCD PANEL 15.4 inch Wide Screen XGA LCD Display with TrueLife™ edit
MEMORY 1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz, 2 DIMM edit
HARD DRIVE 160G 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive edit
OPTICAL DRIVE 8X CD/DVD Burner w/ double-layer DVD+R write capability
VIDEO CARD 128MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8400M GS edit
MEDIA DIRECT Dell Exclusive MediaDirect™ Instant Play Software App
WI-FI WIRELESS CARD Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g Wi-Fi Mini Card edit

It has all the specs I want besides the ram which I will upgrade seperately. it works out to less than 800 dollars total with 1.83 ghz c2d processor, 2gb RAM, and that video card and specs listed up there.

here is the link to the website: http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/vostronb_1500?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&~tab=bundlesta b
I chose the Enhanced graphics Performance option and customized with basic vista. I have xp pro that I will install onto it.

Should I get the Intel wireless card or keep the dell one?

thanks, vivek