PC laptop comparison
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- kelpie
hello
I am buying a new laptop in the next few weeks, one which I hope to work on pretty extensively in the near future and was hoping maybe some folks here would be able to advise me on a good way to go with this
was thinking possibly a sony?
http://vaio.sony.co.uk/view/Show…or a dell studio 17" I found refurbed
or maybe a dell XPS 16 but that's a bit out of my price range
any ideas? I'm thiking a budget of around 500 give or take a bit and will NOT be buying a mac. To clarify: I like macs, but they are too expensive and I need reasonable screen space.
once again, *I will not be buying a mac*
anyone help me out? any experience of these machines or ideas of different ones I could go with?
cheers muchly for any help
- lvl_130
also, do you really want to purchase something as big as a 17"? unless you are never going to unplug it from a wall jack, i would think a 15" would be much more suitable for transport.
- GeorgesII0
I have this, comes with 4gb ram, bluray player, pretty fast,
only down point is the screen wich is the best I've used so far but is gloss, I can't fuckn work outside.
Give me mate screens or give me death!!!
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/…
0- I like the look of it but it seems to be about a third more expensive over here and out of budget by £200 :(kelpie
- kelpie0
yeah I know what you mean, my transport issues I thinkthough are mainly ones of carting it about from city to city to couch to couch over teh next few months, or I'd probably just get a desktop.
this is why I was tempted by the 16" - good compromise between screen res and portability.
Thing is also that I will buy a flatscreen to plug it into eventually once I'm settled so it may be a moot point
- OBBTKN0
I second Toshiba... but sincerelly i´ve not got any problem with dells, leaving apart of his plastics poor quality.
- lvl_130
yeah, so maybe going 16" is a good idea. i'm not sure what your price range is, but these may be a couple good solutions for you:
($1300.00 US)
http://www.microcenter.com/singl…($849.00 US)
http://www.microcenter.com/singl…- bottom one does look good, found it more or less on budget here http://www.limitedgo…kelpie
- Nairn0
K, in a divergence from 'get a mac', why are you getting a laptop? You'll get a lot more bang for your buck, mang.
I don't have any suggestions for your price range, beyond 'beware Dell' - I've never had one personally, but a couple of friends have Dells and seem to suffer nothing but problems with them.
- lvl_130
or you could go even cheaper with something like:
($600.00 US)
http://www.microcenter.com/singl…
- kelpie0
thanks very much chaps, I had heard some time ago that Toshiba were a good bet, and the models you've picked out lvl look pretty good for my needs.
on the desktop thing as a side point as well nairn, I reckon as I'm 95% of the time designing in 72dpi I reckon performance wise I can get away with it easy as long as I've sufficient RAM at my disposal - in those terms I think the portability adds real value
- kelpie0
although having said that about 16" screens, from the looks of things they are actually less deep at 768px than the 15.4 at 800px, though wider. that's a bit shit actually :-/
- TheBlueOne0
I tend to avoid Sony's for computers. Don't get me wrong they make great hardware, but they come so pre-loaded with so much proprietary Sony Brand software crap it's just not worth it...
- trooperbill0
looks like you need http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/hom…
- Khurram0
Hello kelpie,
Stay away from Sony VAIO's. Overpriced pieces of shit. I've had two (not that i bought them, one was a credit card swindle the other an insurance scam). Worst part of them is the way they ar "packaged" that destorys the sort of versatility and flexibilty you want in a PC.
Personally i think Dell by far make the best systems. I would drool over a Dell Precision - but that probably out of your price range. If you're buying a new laptop, you should still consider an XPS. You can get a decent low-end one from around £1000.
I wouldn't go under 17" if this is your primary computer. Don't even think about it.
- Khurram0
My girlfriend also has a HP Pavillion which are actually surprisingly good - performance wise. Coming in just under £800 for the cheapest.
- kelpie0
to be fair, that's still a bit over my budget - the XPS 16 ramps up to round 850 once you've added the extra ram as well, so I'm going to have to compromise somewhere on performance etc to get an actual machine in my hands
- Atkinson0
I got a 15" mbp, 15" is fine for me. I had a 24" imac. 24" was fine for me too.
- Nightshade0
I got a 15" Macbook Pro 2.4ghz for £700 from Ebay (17" can be bought for that money too). So glad I got it over a PC, it's far nicer to present to clients with.
- "it's far nicer to present to clients with"
dumbest quote of the year award? i believe so.lvl_13 - thanks, so I can get a system I don't want 2nd hand for 200 above my budget, cheers for the infokelpie
- its good to have a pretty machine with ugly workdeathboy
- "dumbest quote of the year award?" LOL!!!designbot
- "it's far nicer to present to clients with"