are laptops cheaper in india or abroad?
367753
laptops are cheaper outside India, believe me... But when you are asking someone to get one for you, make sure he removes the box and everything so that when questioned, he can answer that it is his own laptop and is taking along with him as he has some work with it... by doing it this way, the laptop reaches you without any duty on it...
1003509
From my experience, I feel that Dell laptops are excellent in dependability and style. Toshiba is also close behind, though I really dislike the Thinkpads due to design, lack of service, and the overall layout. Gateway does not offer great laptops as it has combined with eMachines... so yea, its out of the running.\n\nI would suggest avoiding Tablet PCs mainly for the fact that they are just out a little bit ago. Might want to give Microsoft a little time to sort out their bugs. I bought one from Bestbuy two monthes ago and returned it two weeks ago because I felt it was rather useless, there is not much you can do with the tablet that cant be done with a mouse. Plus the idea of touching a screen so many times and having to clean it later on does not appeal to me. If you need to draw notes, I would stay with photoshop or paint, as working with a tablet pc is not as easy as you think, and no, the fold-up processes is not as easy as it looks in those comercials. As well, these tablet pcs usually end up costing a good 500 dollars more than one of the same performance without it. \n\nThe bottom line for your usage in my opinion would be the Dell Inspiron Notebook 9400 (after you customize it, its probably going to end up around $1500-$1600 US). It is not that high tech, though that is not needed unless you intend to really crank up gaming, plus it will save you a couple hundred bucks. As well, it comes with a nice silver design and 17" screen, and everything you basically need for university. You can read more about it at the site I listed below.
706896
My laptop cost exactly around $615. I bought it back in April. It is a Gateway laptop. I bought this one because it was the smallest one I could find, it just so happen to be the least expensive. I love it. I bought it at Best Buy. You could try looking there. They may have some really good deals. Good Luck
1016504
I think your best bet would be to rent 10 laptops locally and ship them with you to the conference. There are many companies that can provide the necessary equipment with insurance contracts for out-of-country use.
1143086
I suggest you figure out what you are going to being using the laptop for and how much you have budgeted.  If it will only be used an hour or so every few days and you only plan on browsing web pages and doing e-mail an old refurbished laptop for $300 might work fine.  If at the other extreme you are a gamer and need a very fast CPU, lots and lots of RAM and a graphics chip then $3000 might be required.  If you travel all the time the battery life and size might be the most important consideration.
603204
as far as laptops are concerned some thing like "air cards" are available. In India they are comparatively cheap but outside i'm not aware. check out with some mobile subscribers or broadbands subscribers. they generally offer these things! have fun surfing! hope u get it fast!
786034
There is a utility available on http://cnet.com where you can browse thru the available options as per your requirement.  The path is as follow:\nhttp://exactchoice.cnet.com/Type.aspx\nFor quick reference, 512MB RAM, 60GB HDD and Windows XP SP2 should be fine for Home use.  Can buy any Acer, Dell, HP laptop.  They will be cheap and durable.
1134856
in India...\n\nget ready for the heat ppl\n\nalthough even now jobs are being outsourced from India.  Indian computer firms like Infosys and Wipro are contructing campuses in China, Vietnam etc...\n\nThe labor in Indian cities (Bangalore, Mumbai etc...) is earning more so the the price incentive is less like it was before.  The companies are branching out into smaller Indian cities but the firms are also oursoucing/recruiting.  Infosys(i think it was infosys) is recruiting Americans to come to india, get trained, and then they are deployed all over the world\n\nwhat a world we live in today...everything, like my friend Tom Friedman would say, is FLAT!
292192
Go to their website, http://www.dell.com, and\nlook under laptops.  They have their entry\nlevel laptop for $449.  \n\nIf you wait for a special (ie. just before school\ngraduation time or Christmas), you could quite\npossibly get a nicer one for the same price.
755810
probably but believe me u will get dirt prices(bad prices for the laptop,
720883
i prefer buying an ibm r or z series notebooks as cheap and are encouraged with an wireless connectivity which are preferable for travelling.Online shopping is from where you can bye.
814711
i relly have no idea.as you rightly say they are much cheaper elsewhere
918329
Where?!?!?!?!  I already have my credit card out, just point me in the right direction.  In all seriousness, you can get one for $400, but NOT with all the trimmings, in fact it probably won't have any trimmings.  $700 to $1500 is still what I would call pretty decent range for a good laptop.
1183852
If you want good value for money, don't buy the brand name crap. Go to Centralfield (in Sham Shui Po) and take a look at their offer. Or check their website: http://www.centralfield.com/2004/Bto_nb/BTO_index1.html (but there's not much English there).\n\nI bought this Centrino laptop last year - Pentium M 1.6, 512MB RAM (upgradeable to 1GB), 60GB HDD, 15" 1400*1050 LCD, DVD+CDRW and ATI Mobility Radeon 9700, for HK$8750 (about US$1125), and I'm really happy with it. Anything comparable made by big brands was over HK$12000.\nAnyway, prices have dropped quite a bit since last year.\n\nOf course, you can also find some cheap crap like slow Celerons with 256MB RAM for HK$5000 or so.
1026977
for the best value/performance ratio, i suggest you try checking out aldi or lidl... i know it sounds crazy, but they actually use good quality components from well-known manufacturers such as pioneer and samsung... you don't end up spending money on a brand name.\n\ni got my laptop from lidl about 18 months ago and it was as good a spec as anything out there - and it's still up there, no problems whatsoever.\n\nit also has a three year guarantee, which dell will charge several hundred quid for...\n\notherwise,  toshiba machines are generally regarded as being very reliable. \n\nof course, if you're not doing a lot of gaming, pretty much any laptop will do the trick nowadays. i would advise against a laptop with shared graphics memory however...\n\ntry and get one that has its own dedicated graphics card and video memory...
930642
For the price of transportation you can buy all in India.\n\nFind a cheap storage in Canada and keep it in Canada or Sell it off, buy all new on retuning.\n\nMost appliance will not work properly in India.
635671
There's no reason a laptop shouldn't be as reliable as a desk top if you take reasonable care of it.   But for the same power (memory, processor speed, disk size and speed), it will certainly be more expensive.\n\nYou can have internet everywhere there is WiFi available, and for extra money, you can get a wireless modem that connects to one of the cell phone data services.\n\nIf portability isn't important to you, you're probably better off getting a desktop machine.  You should be able to use your current display with it and avoid having to buy a new one, assuming you're happy with it.\n\nYou can buy used laptops, if you decide to go that way, on eBay, assuming you trust that sort of thing.