New Notebook

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

Hey Guys

Lookin at a new laptop for home, your thoughts on a deal I saw recently.

ASUS A3WH380DL56PG

IntelCEL380 (1.6GHZ)

512m Ram, 60Gig HD

DVD Dual, 15XGA,WLess lan

Your thoughts

Cheers

MC.

[ripken204]

a link would be nice

and if u want to go the dell route...

i just got my grandma an inspiron e1505 with a gig of ram, 60gig hdd, 15.4 inch widescreen, dvd DL burner, core duo 1.66ghz. and this was for under 1000$ with a nice 300$ off coupon

[clintb]

How about an Acer 5672.

Intel core duo @1.66GHz

2GB DDR2 RAM

120GB Hard drive

Bluetooth 2.0+EDR

Intel 3945 a/b/g wireless

Realtek HD audio

ATI x1400 graphics

Multi-format DVD-DL burner w/DVD-RAM writing

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

How about an Acer 5672.

Intel core duo @1.66GHz

2GB DDR2 RAM

120GB Hard drive

Bluetooth 2.0+EDR

Intel 3945 a/b/g wireless

Realtek HD audio

ATI x1400 graphics

Multi-format DVD-DL burner w/DVD-RAM writing

Yeah Thanks Guys

@clintb specs are little over the top there for me basically another machine to use @ home mostly for the wife & children etc. A budget of around $1,200 to $1,400 AUS

With the Acer etc they come with xp home standard, I have two lic copies of pro that I know I can use on me desktop & also the notebook, Eula allows. Is there any forseeable problems in simply wiping the drive/partitions & installing xp pro sp2 on those, not keen on home?

Cheers

MC.

[Zxian]

I'd go for the Dell over the Acer. Acer's quality control isn't much to write home about.

As for installing XP Pro - you shouldn't have any troubles in either case. I'd suggest still running any "backup recovery media creator" software they've got, just in case you ever run into a snag where their customer support requires it of you.

[ripken204]

well for the dell

$300 off $999+ on select Inspiron notebooks w/ coupon: GCFR6??LQQ9HWW, exp 5/11

$450 off $1499+ on select Inspiron notebooks w/ coupon: 4BK9N5L$56RPF8, exp 5/11

$500 off $1599+ on select Inspiron notebooks w/ coupon: KCZGSCHQ0FPZ2C, exp 5/11

$650 off $1999+ on select Inspiron notebooks w/ coupon: $S?883VHTVCZF7, exp 5/11

this is very helpful. so u could upgrade to 2gigs of ram, larger hdd and x1400 and not pay much

[Andromeda43]

The guys in the laptop service centers tell me that Toshiba has the greatest mean time between failures of any of the major brands. I install lots of Toshibas for my customers and I really like them.

Not considered a major brand, SagerNotebooks are a real dream machine.

Take a look at www.sagernotebook.com

And, they have set up service centers all accross the country.

On the other hand, if you don't really need a laptop, you'll get a lot more for your money if you get a desktop PC and have the advantage of being able to upgrade it later, when you need to.

laptops are not very upgradable and very hard and expensive to repair.

By their very nature, they don't perform as well as a desktop PC either.

They also use very proprietary drivers that you may not be able to easily find if you reformat for a different OS.

XP home can easily be upgraded to XP Pro/SP2 with a simple Upgrade CD. It's done all the time.

Good Luck,

Andromeda43 B)

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

Finally opted for the Acer

Which has similar specs to what I first suggested with the smaller screen 14 inch but not bad.

All for around a grand not bad value I thought.

It came with xp home which I put up with for a few days till I scoured it for non window drivers & added them to my ua source. My first go basically installed pro to the second partition but I then changed the ans file to repartition =yes & that sorted it .

All in All very happy with the choice so far.

Cheers

MC