Okay I’m glad you guys mentioned the RAM because that’s basically the only thing I really understand. I heard 512 is pretty fast, so I’ll take your advice and go with one stick, rather than going cheaper and getting two or whatever was mentioned. That will be kept in mind.
and it cost me about 1900. regularly i think my model would cost about 2500. look into them though, dells pretty good
wooo…I don’t think that I’ll go over 1300…I mean, this is all pretty much on my shoulders and that would take awhile to pay off. On that note, you can do monthly payments on some laptops, depending on where you buy them, right? Oh please say I don’t have to pay all or half up front :\
For internet, you’ll probably want to hook yourself up with wireless 'net. You will need: (etc)
Well I don’t really care if it’s wireless or not. Just as long as I can move it around in my bedroom (like from my bed to my desk or something). My question was, is a laptop capable of gaving highspeed internet or cable, just like my desktop? I don’t want to ever go back to dial up again…
40-80gig HD. You’ll know how much you need depending on how much music and video you keep right now.
Well, I have maybe 200 video game tracks (as in songs, not soundtracks) on my comp and maybe 30 regular music tracks in my shared folder at any given time. I try not to download movies or anything, or if I do, it’s one and then I watch and delete. So how much gig would I need for this approx estimate?
CD or (optimally, but about 200 more, ick) DVD burner
yes yes yes I forgot to mention this. I NEED to have a CD burner. DVD burner would be nice, but I’m not going out of my way to get one. On my comp now, I have both. What about burning data? Laptops can do this, I assume. So do laptops come with cd burners?
On the other hand, you could get a mac. Macs are good technology if you ask me. Problem is that its pricey. BUT any good laptop will be pricey. So…shrugs. If anyone would want a laptop and had minimal interest in using it for gaming, I’d say get a mac (although macs get the major games released on them, even if a bit late) . Macs are good quality, they’re easy to set up and easy to use and they like to be on the forefront: you’re sure to have prearranged high speed/internal wireless already set up in the machine with all kinds of other gizmos like firewire (think USB but better)
If they’re pricey I probably wont be able to :\ I’m so used to what I have now, that making the change over to a mac may be too weird for me…
Oh and keep the desktop. Its worthless to sell and it might be useful in emergencies.
I’m not so sure…I mean, I need some extra money to actually pay for a laptop, that isn’t coming out of a paycheque…a couple hundred dollars would even be nice.
By the way, to help us be more precise in our suggestions, as I’m doing my suggestions based on assumptions, tell us what you use your computer for. Give us a break down of the tasks you do or plan to do. I gave my suggestions on how you’d want to browse the net kinda from everywhere, listen to music, chat, use office type programs for stuff.
Well, i’d still want to download music (kazaa) and my video game tracks. That’s a big thing I do. I also work a lot in microsoft word (processor). I do some photoshopping from time to time, and I do eventually want to get into making music videos (which requires a ton a space I’m sure, but I could always ration my space out for that). Uummm website creating, I want to focus a lot on that (which goes hand in hand with the MWord work I do). So I have a lot of written data on my comp and floppy discs. I also love to work in RPG Maker, and I have folders and folders of resources in that. Plus AIM. I don’t intend to do anything totally high maintenance (just the sort of stuff I do now).
I checked, for something like I mentionned here, it’d cost you 1443 Canadian to get an iBook. If you check with your university or something you might get a further discount or something like a free iPod. I know there’s a free iPod thing going around right now at UCI. The
I do not attend uni; I go to community college in a year, but I don’t think that they have this sort of program…I’ll look into it though.
Laptops these days have a habit of burning your balls, and you’d be able to get more power for less money.
Is this literally? Like if you set them on your lap they will burn? In that case, i echoe what Xelo said, I don’t have any stuff there to burn :\ But I’ll keep this in mind and be careful about my legs and whatnot. I had no idea.
Eva just has to realize that there’ll be a couple extra costs to getting wireless internet in her house if that’s what she wants since she’ll have to get a wireless router and make sure whatever computer she has has wireless connectivity. Its simple to set up, but it will add to the costs.
Does this mean, like I can surf the net without having something to plug in? I stated above that I really wouldn’t mind this…I mean if I can keep the price down, then I can put up with it. My main concern is just having a really fast connection.
EDIT: Okay I checked out your link Sin, and just looked at the two cheapest notebooks there. Can some of you look at these and tell me if they are worth the price and fit into what I want?Like how much memory and stuff it has. I don’t understand all of this MHz stuff.
http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/featured_notebook_2200?c=ca&cs=CADHS1&l=en&s=dhs
http://configure.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=ca&CS=CADHS1&l=en&OC=OCINSP6000_FEAT_CH60P12