Dylruss said:
Dells, may not be the best, but I really like mine. Mine is one of the more simple ones that Dell does. Inspiron 1150, seems to do great since I don't play games on it, and it only cost (I am sure I have said it a million times) $630. w/60gig 5400rpm, wirelss b/g, 2.6Ghz celey (yuk), and so on.
That's a good deal, but I don't know if I could settle for a celery
I won't be playing games on mine either.
kayson said:
Get an apple notebook. Those are a much better deal, but I'd only get it if it's a secondary computer. If it's gonna be your main rig, go with the dell.
I have used some apple computers here on campus, and I can honestly say that I hate their OS... I am used to Windows and I like it
My lappy would be my second rig for sure, I still have to have this loud thing as my gaming rig
I am sure that apple notebooks have their advantages, but I don't see myself being happy with one.
mrw8419 said:
Blue tooth is a small range wireless protocol that is used by cell phones, pda's, etc. The only decently cool thing if you don't have a blue tooth phone, you can use a blue tooth mouse and you never even have to plug anything in. Just turn the wireless mouse on and it works.
Michael
Thanks for the explanation... I don't have any PDA's or a nice enough cellphone for that (thoguh I may have one in March). So I could use my MX1000 mouse with the blue tooth technology?
enduro said:
I love my dell. If you're not going to game I'd save the money from the 9700 and put it elsewhere. My 9600 Pro can play HL2 so I'm good to go with it. You could probably go a lot lower to a 5200 Go or something. Upgrade the ram or something. Oh, just a hint. You can save money on ram by buying the 256 stick and then buying a gig kit from the Egg for 160 bucks. Then sell the 256 stick on the forums for like 30 shipped and you got a gig for 130.
Also good advice, thanks. I have never dealt with a laptop before, but I assume it cannot be that hard to go in there and change the memory. Also, would 1gig be overkill for my purposes? I think that 512 wouls be enough for what I do, and they currently have an upgrade from 256 to 512 for free. I do think that the 9700 would be overkill for sure as well, but I will want to play some videos and such, so maybe a cheap integrated graphics card may not be enough?
Also, does anyone know if I would void my warranty by formating the HD and installing XP Pro, as opposed to the XP Home that it omes with? Or is there a way to have it shipped with absolutely nothing on the HD?
Thanks again guys!