what do you think of this laptop?

[minduka]

OS: Microsoft®Windows®XP Home Edition (Service Pack 1)

CPU: Mobile AMD Athlon(TM)XP-M Processor 2000+

System Bus: 266MHz

Chipset: ATI®RADEON(TM) IGP 320M + ALi M1535+

System Memory: 256MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM(Onboard)
Max: 768MB(256MB onbard + 512MB SO-DIMM)

Memory Slot: x1

HDD: 40GB(Ultra ATA/100, 4,200rpm)

ODD: DVD-ROM & CD-R/RW (24x24x24x8)

Display: 15.4 in. (1,280x800)

Graphic card: ATI®RADEON(TM) IGP 320M

Onboard TV tunner

Sound: ALi M1535+ Onboard chipset(AC97)

LAN
10BASE-T/100BASE-TX

PC Card slot
1Slot(TypeII ×1 CardBus)

Battery:Lithium Ion (14.8V,4.4A,65.12Wh)
Approx:3.3~3.7 hrs.
Recharge time: 2.0 hrs.

Dimensions: 354(W)×37.6(H)×254(L)mm

Weigth: 3.0kg(including battery)

3 USB2.0 ports, 1 S-video output, 1 IEEE1394 port(4pin DV port), analigCRT port (mini-sub 15pin), 1 parallel port (D-Sub 25pin), TV out, 1 Lan port, mic, headphones, modem.

it costs about $1,300

im currently using a P3-700Mhz, 256mb (pc100), 40gb, 32mb nvidia TNT pro.

Im going to use this for college. I want to know what rating this would get. thanks.

[Kuasimodem]

For about $100 more, you can get this eMachines. It doesn't have the onboard TV tuner, but it has more horsepower under the hood, a better chipset, better graphics, built in wireless connection, and a bigger hard drive.

I've got one and just love it Posting from it right now!


edit>>> Was just looking through Best Buy's flyer and they have it for sale for $1250 after rebates. I know you're in Korea right now, but if you have family stateside that could buy it and ship it to you, you could save some bucks and have a killer lappy.

My brother just called, so I'm off to a LAN party with mine

[minduka]

WoW, this machine rocks! buts its a little bit big and heavy

I've read a lot of reviews and other people's opinions in other forums. Thanks, i think i will ask my aunt to ship it to me. Thanks

[filipino]

thats okay if you have it keep it

[kieran]

sounds quite expensive.
dell germany has an offer now:
inspiron5100
3.3kg, 256mb(max 1gb),hd 30gb, ati mobility radeon7500(32mb)dvd-cd/rw drive,wlan, p4 2.8ghz,14inch display for 800eur.
thats quite a bit cheaper for not much less performance

[djivesp]

I know its dated and if compared with current specs of laptops its quite sh*t, but the IBM Thinkpad 570

http://www.asbis.sk/download/TP570.pdf

It only weighs 1.8 kilos, is ONE inch thick,

put Linux or FreeBSD on it and youll have a powerful ultraportable for about $250
(bought mine for £130 off ebay (with ac adapter&cdrom drive), and i got the ultrabase for about £8 from the US (postage is gonna kill)

i bought one for college so i could carry it everyday (im no p***y but 3K on a shoulder everyday is abit harsh methinks)

You can get different specs, mine has pentium II 333, 128m, 10g, 13.3" 1024x768 screen, you could still get it to run win2k at reasonable speed (Xp would be pushing the specs, needs 128m RAM just to run itself), and it has USB&PCMCIA so u can get wireless b & g adapters&stuff if you wana!

[minduka]

I can barely stand p-3 700mhz... 333mhz would totally kill me

[djivesp]

Yea ur right, mind you - you would have much more speed with anything other than windows

Ultraportables that are cheap are quite hard to find that are also fast

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[Mr.Macintosh]

How about the ibooks? Powerful, light, small, and nice battery life. The battery life is 4 hrs.

[Vagabond]

battery life is not good and they are big check out Sagernotebooks....