Ugh. $400 for a 15.4" laptop with those specs is not a great deal.
For $450 at WorstBuy this week, you can get a 1.6ghz Pentium Dual Core (Core 2 Duo with cut back L2 cache), 1GB RAM, 120GB HDD, dual layer DVD-RW, 15.4" Screen, the usual 802.11b/g, and a free after rebate printer (which will probably be junk but i'm sure some relative will leach it off you). Although Vista Home Premium will probably make it feel like a 1.2Ghz VIA.
For a Benjamin and Grant or what some people spent at some stuck up coffee shop for a week (although those people usually have Macbooks), you can step up to an Acer with an dual core AMD Turion X2, 2GB RAM, GeForce 7000m graphics, 160GB HDD, dual layer DVD-RW, 15.4" screen. Not bad for $600 and will even run Vista semi decently.
If you want to go to some website, OS doesn't matter. But if you want go to most website, OS does matter. To start, real video, mpg, wmv, then you have the ones with DRM. Some website requires activeX, and many other plug-ins. So OS kinda of matters.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
dvdivx @ Jan 17th 2008 12:57AM
With the same lousy VIA processor. No thanks. Give me an eeepc with a 9" screen and I'm getting one.
w00fy @ Jan 17th 2008 1:13AM
Ugh. $400 for a 15.4" laptop with those specs is not a great deal.
For $450 at WorstBuy this week, you can get a 1.6ghz Pentium Dual Core (Core 2 Duo with cut back L2 cache), 1GB RAM, 120GB HDD, dual layer DVD-RW, 15.4" Screen, the usual 802.11b/g, and a free after rebate printer (which will probably be junk but i'm sure some relative will leach it off you). Although Vista Home Premium will probably make it feel like a 1.2Ghz VIA.
For a Benjamin and Grant or what some people spent at some stuck up coffee shop for a week (although those people usually have Macbooks), you can step up to an Acer with an dual core AMD Turion X2, 2GB RAM, GeForce 7000m graphics, 160GB HDD, dual layer DVD-RW, 15.4" screen. Not bad for $600 and will even run Vista semi decently.
skulldriveshaft @ Jan 17th 2008 1:49AM
don't mind the tech snobs
if it works for ya, buy it
getting stuck in the OS bloatware wormhole is not something you want on light hardware
if all you're doing is browsing the internet, editing photos and documents, listening to music, and watching video, the os doesn't matter anymore.
insertAlias @ Jan 17th 2008 11:44AM
I'm not so sure about the OS not mattering. I've used gOS, and its not an experience I would recommend to anyone.
Hanson @ Jan 24th 2008 2:43PM
If you want to go to some website, OS doesn't matter. But if you want go to most website, OS does matter. To start, real video, mpg, wmv, then you have the ones with DRM. Some website requires activeX, and many other plug-ins. So OS kinda of matters.