Looking for a good laptop with power and functions?
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Howdy there!\n\nIt depends -- I bought 2 laptops in my life.  The first one in around year 2000, and the second one in 2005.  The 2005 laptop costed only $1200.00 and had great battery life, and very good specs.  I am very satisfied that notebooks are becoming a very viable solution for even home purposes.  Even cheaper laptops are quite nice.\n\nIf you are interested in hooking a MASSIVE amount of kids up with a computer that can do alot of things -- made for education -- look here: http://laptop.media.mit.edu/\n\nIf you are just an average joe, let me tell you a few things to look for in finding you the perfect laptop...\n\nFirstly, at this day and age, it's hard to find a bad laptop to do the basics -- what I mean by this is: Pretty much every computer on today's modern market will fulfill your basic educational needs.  Here are some specifications you should look for, as a mininum.\n\n- Pentium 4 Processor OR Pentium M (centrino) If you travel without the laptop plugged in.\n- 512mb of ram (I don't know how big your schematics are, but 1gb of ram offers you alot of freedom.\n- USB and ports VGA - You want to make sure this laptop can have a real mouse extended to it for when your working at home. A VGA Extension is great for dualscreen work or working on a bigger monitor.\n- Monitor Size - 14.4" + at least. WSXGA, or WXGA+ because you NEED to have a monitor with flexible resolutions.. For this WSXGA and WXGA+ fit the job perfectly.\n\nI think you should check out some of these review sites.. And if it all possible: SEE the model that interests you in REAL life, then look online for the best deal. If move swiftly, you'll have a laptop you love, and a great deal -- I am very confident that you will succeed. :)\n\nhttp://www.notebookreview.com/
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Look around at Dell's laptops. They've got pretty good laptops at decent prices.
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I have 3 laptops, a Toshiba, an HP, and a Dell.  I have to say the Toshiba is by far my favourite.  Dell has the most options, but their prices aren't the best, and their laptops are consistently heavier and run hotter.  The hp's are OK, although their battery life tends to be weak.  My Toshiba is just an awesome little machine - great screen, good battery life, good performance, low price.\n\nI'd suggest looking for one of the new Sattilite models with the Intel core duo processors.
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Go with a dell or hp with at least 512 megs of ram and built-in wireless. Both of them make great computers and you should be able to get them for around 600 bucks. But make sure it has 512 megs of ram or more.
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The laptop you're looking for would be extremely basic and wouldn't require much horsepower at all. \nProbably specs like the following:\n\nCPU: Pentium 4 (Celeron)(M) 2.4 Ghz/ AMD Athlon (Sempron)(Turion) 2.4 Ghz\n\nMemory: 512 Mb- 1 Gigabyte\n\nHardrive: 40 Gigs - 60 Gigs Max\n\nMost likely a wireless network card\n\nCheck out www.dell.com for some pretty good deals for what you're looking for.\nEmail me for a more detailed response.
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I suggest you to go for HP...simply they are the best in Laptops for the past 10+ years....their support through out lifetime is another asset...they are technically advanced hence rated best.....if you are looking for cheaper one....then Dell could be your option.\n\nGood luck.\n:)
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dell inspiron E1505.\nits the best!!
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choose any modern laptop with a good amount of RAM, I suggest no less than 1GB.
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I just bought a new HP dv5030us from Circuit City for $999 after a $200 mail in rebate.  It has an AMD Turion64 processor (2GHz), 1 GB of RAM, 100 GB harddrive, DVD Burner with Lightscribe, and Windows XP Media Center.  The 15.4" WXGA widescreen looks really bright and sharp, too (great for movies).\n\nI've been happy with it so far except that its battery life is not as good as a comparable laptop running the Centrino architecture.\n\nIt has plenty of horsepower for running simple business applications (any modern new laptop will).  If you want to play around with photos, movies, music, etc. then you might want to try out this one due to the XP Media Center operating system.
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the HP Pavilion dv6000t is a pretty good laptop and starts at $580. you can customize it yourself with a few free upgrades atm.\nhttp://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/computer_can_series.do?storeName=computer_store&category=notebooks&a1=Usage&v1=Entertainment+Notebooks&series_name=dv6000t_series
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What you are looking at is a high end laptop at a lower price. Suggest looking at Acer or Lenovo. (you havent provided the exact configs, else I would have suggested model numbers)\nIt would be worthwhile if you can logon to the Dell website, and work out a configuration yourself, and request a quote - they give very good discounts for online orders, and a comprehensive support plan.
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You should get a Dell Inspiron. I have one, and it's great!\n\nhttp://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1777825,00.asp
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600$ is a tight budge, so you might want to look for a slightly used laptop. But good companies are dell, toshiba, and gateway. but quality over bells and whistles and you won't regret it.\nGood luck.
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Dell outlet is fine (http://outlet.dell.com) - I purchased my current laptop through their outlet and am very happy with it.  \n\nI would suggest a Dell Dimension with a decent video card and amount of ram.  For vid pretty much anything Nvidia should be good and try to get at least 1 gigabye of ram. Gaming takes quite a bit more horsepower than web browsing and messaging.
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any one you want... but i would consider the dell one
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My suggestion is to get an HP laptop and without any hesitation I would get one with a centrino process. Additionally if you are not going to be mobile you will appreciate a 17" wide screen. I would also consider 1GB of Ram and 100 GB hard drive. Good luck.\n\nI would also consider and AMD Turion processor.