PC laptop comparison
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- 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"
- kelpie0
"once again, *I will not be buying a mac*"
- Atkinson0
best response of the year goes to Kelpie
"thanks, so I can get a system I don't want 2nd hand for 200 above my budget, cheers for the info"
One day I will use that.
- ceiling_cat0
I love the vaios
- 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…
- deathboy0
i'd jsut hit up zipzoomfly.com or newegg.com and see what deals are to be had, narrow some choices down then do some google searchs on the ones u liked and choose. bang for buck will probably be a toshiba or acer
- 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...