THE Laptop Thread: Configs, deals and questions.

[akshay_b]

Originally Posted by Mr_Bean

prajwal, I purchased the laptop in september 2006, it served me for 2.5 years.. Never gave thought into repairing it since I had a spare laptop from my friend..

Now I don't have one, would make a lot of sense to buy a new one... I am looking for a dell, would never go for an HP again due to its weight and poor battery..

Dell ispiron 15 if your budget is 40k or else Dell Studio, Buy Dell lappys at the dell website or if you stay in Bangalore, Visit croma at eva mall.

[amith.2974]

Hey guys, I own an acer extensa 4620, which is over a year old, running on windows xp, I'm looking to upgrade my operating system to vista, (or even windows 7), any suggestions as to where i can get this done in bangalore, and if i want to upgrade to windows 7 what is the configuration i mite have to upgrade to. At the moment it is a core 2 duo processor 1.6mhz, 1gb ram, 80gb hdd

[Ketan]

Win7 will work for any hardware that is compatible for Vista. With you configuration, Win7 will work well. Go for it. I believe its available with OEs for now, you can contact OEM from whom you got this notebook.

[Mr_Bean]

Originally Posted by akshay_b

Dell ispiron 15 if your budget is 40k or else Dell Studio, Buy Dell lappys at the dell website or if you stay in Bangalore, Visit croma at eva mall.

Never again HP, I guess they should stick to making PC's

[anupmathur]

Originally Posted by Ketan

Win7 will work for any hardware that is compatible for Vista. ....

Of course it will!
Vista is very hardware hungry!
Windows 7 is supposed to work with less!

[mathewpn]

Infact Win7 work with lesser hardware configuration that Vista. Folks in MS have tried this OS on 6yr old Laptop with 512MB RAM and it works just fine.

[amith.2974]

I read an article in today's paper that installation of windows 7 is a bit complicated, not that I'm planning on doing it myself, but any suggestions as to where I can get this OS update in Bangalore? Or should I just approach the acer service centre?

[chevelle]

Guys
am looking to buy a netbook
need to decide between following three. Your views would be helpful
1. Asus 1000he
2. Samsung nc 10
3. Lenovo s10

all three are price at par with each other, have almost similar weight, specs
which one would you pick and why.

Thank you

[mathewpn]

Of the three, my pick will be lenovo.
Asus, just settling down in india,after sale support is picking up
Samsung, a well established brand, but not in Laptops. They have very good optical drives, monitors and HDDs. But thats not a reason to go for it.
Lenovo, previously known as IBM, is very good in terms of design, performance and durability.

[chevelle]

Originally Posted by mathewpn

Of the three, my pick will be lenovo.
Asus, just settling down in india,after sale support is picking up
Samsung, a well established brand, but not in Laptops. They have very good optical drives, monitors and HDDs. But thats not a reason to go for it.
Lenovo, previously known as IBM, is very good in terms of design, performance and durability.

thanks for your opinion but this is to be bought for use in USA. after an year it would be used in India. so i guess after sales won't matter much.

i am more concerned with related to performance, weight, battery life and ease of keyboard

i was searching around and apparently a couple of interesting newcomers have been added.
i saw Samsung n140 which is new in market with good specs.
also Lenovo s 10 - 2 have come, major improvement being a 6-cell battery.

[Red Liner]

Hey Guys,

I am looking at picking up a good multimedia laptop for my designers (web) and I was looking at the Dell Studio 17.3

What are my alternatives? Is this the best bet for a multimedia design machine? This is ringing about 65k on my register. So I need to make sure I am making the right decision.

Help?

[MrinalSinha]

What do you guys think of
HP FN003UT#ABA - 4510S C2D/2.26 15.6 4GB-320GB DVDR BT CAM WVB-XPP
This is available for 894$

HP 4510S C2D/2.26 15.6 4GB-320GB DVDR BT CAM WVB-XPP
RECOMMENDED USE SMALL BUSINESS, CORPORATE BUSINESS

APPROXIMATE WEIGHT 5.7 LBS
SYSTEM TYPE NOTEBOOK BUILT-IN DEVICES STEREO SPEAKERS, WIRELESS LAN ANTENNA, BLUETOOTH ANTENNA
PROCESSOR INTEL CORE 2 DUO P7570 / 2.26 GHZ ( DUAL-CORE ) CACHE MEMORY 3 MB - L2 CACHE
RAM 4 GB (INSTALLED) / 8 GB (MAX) - DDR2 SDRAM ( 2 X 2 GB )
CARD READER YES
HARD DRIVE 320 GB - SERIAL ATA-300 - 7200 RPM
OPTICAL STORAGE DVD±RW (±R DL) / DVD-RAM -
INTEGRATED WITH LIGHTSCRIBE TECHNOLOGY DISPLAY 15.6" TFT 1366 X 768 ( WXGA ) GRAPHICS CONTROLLER ATI MOBILITY RADEON HD 4330 - 512 MB AUDIO OUTPUT SOUND CARD NETWORKING NETWORK ADAPTER - ETHERNET, FAST ETHERNET, GIGABIT ETHERNET, IEEE 802.11B, IEEE 802.11A, IEEE 802.11G, BLUETOOTH 2.0 EDR, IEEE 802.11N (DRAFT 2.0) WIRELESS NIC INTEL WIFI LINK 5100 NOTEBOOK CAMERA INTEGRATED - 2 MEGAPIXEL INPUT DEVICE KEYBOARD, TOUCHPAD POWER AC 120/230 V ( 50/60 HZ ) BATTERY LITHIUM ION RUN TIME (UP TO) 4.5 HOUR(S) OPERATING SYSTEM MICROSOFT WINDOWS 7 PROFESSIONAL / XP PROFESSIONAL DOWNGRADE MICROSOFT OFFICE READY INCLUDES A PREINSTALLED IMAGE OF SELECT 2007 MICROSOFT OFFICE SUITES. PURCHASE A MEDIALESS LICENSE KIT (MLK) TO ACTIVATE THE SOFTWARE. MANUFACTURER SELLING PROGRAM HP SMART BUY ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS EPA ENERGY STAR , EPEAT GOLD MANUFACTURER WARRANTY 1 YEAR WARRANTY

[harishnair]

I am planning to buy a new laptop. I have shortlisted an Asus (NVG 81) and HP laptop (DV6-2005). the specs are:

Asus (NVG 81)

• Core 2 Duo P8700 2.53GHz
• 4GB DDR-2 800MHzRAM
• 320GB HDD
• Graphics NVDIA GT120M(1GB) graphics
• 14" HD LED display
• Price uae dhs-4000 (INR 50995)

HP laptop (DV6-2005)

• AMD Turion II Ultra Dual Core M600 2.4GHz
• Level 2 cache 2MB
• 4GB DDR-3 RAM
• 500GB 7200rpm HDD
• ATI Radeon HD4660 1 GB dedicated graphics
• 15.6" Diagonal HD LED Brightview Display
• Price uae dhs- 3700 (INR 47170)

I will be using the laptop as a desktop replacement and will be using it for playing games also.The ASUS is more expensive than the HP and has only DDR2 ram.

But I heard that the AMD Turion II ULTRA is not all that great compared to C2D and heats up very fast as TDP is 35w. I am unable to find any information (review) about this processor in the net. So could anyone please help me out on choosing between the two.

[harishnair]

Originally Posted by sohail99

AMD Turion II Ultra M600 is 81st on the mobile processors benchmark list!(no tests though! :S)

Whereas C2D P8700 is 34th!! - Notebookcheck: Mobile Processors - Benchmarklist

But since P8700 is penryn, you wont be able to use DDR3 ram in ASUS like in the HP one

Thanks dude!!! you have been of great help. After I went through the HP website I seriously have doubt about the DDR3 RAM part also, so I have sent the shop guys an email requesting clarification.

Here is the link for the 2 laptops

HP- HP DV6

ASUS- N81VG

[phamilyman]

sir, dont ask us. go to the right gaming forums. find out from guys there how AMD works. These global benchmarks are like bikinis - they hide all the critical areas while being seemingly tell-it-all