I Need a Laptop

[reason]

I'm looking to buy a laptop for school. Anyone out there an expert on the topic and can tell me what to buy and what to avoid?

[cincygreg]

I'd just make sure it's compatible (which most are) with whatever system you use at home or at work.

I dont have a laptop, so I'll probably be of little help here.


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[Lew]

I have a Toshiba, and I use the hell out of it, but it seems to me that it struggles more than it should. If I were to get another one, I think I'd go with a Dell.

[travelinman]

It will depend on what you?re going to use it for.

We are in the process of refreshing our Engineer?s laptops. Were going to Dell Latitude 505s with 512 RAM, 30 gig hard drives, R/W CD burner, DVD reader and a wireless adapter. Less than $900.00

We need the 15? screen to look at drawings and the burner to create CDs at the job site. The DVD is there for long plan rides.

Do you need a large screen, or could you user a smaller one? If you?re carrying it around to lecture halls and have minimal desk space, get a smaller one. Do you have a desktop at home with a CD burner and Ethernet NIC? If so you can skip the burner and just network them. Also do you need a DVD or not?

[reason]

Originally posted by travelinman:
It will depend on what you?re going to use it for.

We are in the process of refreshing our Engineer?s laptops. Were going to Dell Latitude 505s with 512 RAM, 30 gig hard drives, R/W CD burner, DVD reader and a wireless adapter. Less than $900.00

We need the 15? screen to look at drawings and the burner to create CDs at the job site. The DVD is there for long plan rides.

Do you need a large screen, or could you user a smaller one? If you?re carrying it around to lecture halls and have minimal desk space, get a smaller one. Do you have a desktop at home with a CD burner and Ethernet NIC? If so you can skip the burner and just network them. Also do you need a DVD or not?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">This will primarily be used for spreadsheet applications, but I also want to use it at home as my primary computer. I own an obsolete Mac that I've not had connected for a year and a half. So I'd want the cd burner, the wireless. I have no idea what an ethernet NIC is.

While I'd like the best, I don't have the money. so the smaller screen would suffice. I just don't want a pokey piece of crap that will be replaced in two years.

[jumper69]

I like Dell's also.

I have an HP NC6000 that is Da Bomb!!!!

You should check out HP as well.

Memory being as cheap as it is now, I'd bump for at least 1GB of RAM. As for the rest, go with what Trav says.

But buy as much memory as you can afford.