Laptop Advice

[RoosterWedgie]

Hi, Im looking at buying a laptop and I want some opinions.
Looking in the $2400-$2800 range and at the moment am swayint towards a Hewlett Packard 4201 with a 2ghz Celeron Processor, 512mb RAM, 64mb shared ram Video Card, 30gb Hard Drive, DVD Rom and the other usual stuff.
Its $2499. What do people think?
Any advice or experiences?

 

[Desredandwhite]

2 and a half is pretty good for a laptop (silly me just spent $4000 on a laptop!) - the celeron is not as powerful as the PIII or PIV, but should provide good battery life and decent enough performance. For laptops I like IBM, Toshiba and Apple - no real experience with HP notebooks though, sorry!

 

[jim boy]

Originally posted by RoosterWedgie
Hi, Im looking at buying a laptop and I want some opinions.
Looking in the $2400-$2800 range and at the moment am swayint towards a Hewlett Packard 4201 with a 2ghz Celeron Processor, 512mb RAM, 64mb shared ram Video Card, 30gb Hard Drive, DVD Rom and the other usual stuff.
Its $2499. What do people think?
Any advice or experiences?

Also if you're interested, have a chat to the people at www.laptop.com.au I was in there the other day and bought myself a 800 MHz IBM T21 for $1600. But the guy showed me his range of Dell laptops which were brand new. He buys them new from Singapore when dollar and market forces are favourable and was selling them off for $2600. So if you want a 2.4 GHz P4, you know where you can find one.

 

[Desredandwhite]

Re: Re: Laptop Advice

Originally posted by Jim Boy
Also if you're interested, have a chat to the people at www.laptop.com.au I was in there the other day and bought myself a 800 MHz IBM T21 for $1600. But the guy showed me his range of Dell laptops which were brand new. He buys them new from Singapore when dollar and market forces are favourable and was selling them off for $2600. So if you want a 2.4 GHz P4, you know where you can find one.

Yep - they're pretty good folk there - I bought my old laptop from them about a year ago (a 366Mhz IBM ThinkPad 600E). I guess it depends on whether you want to use it as a backup/portable computer, or whether you'll be planning to use it as your main machine. If you don't NEED the power, you can save heaps by not getting the latest and most expensive.

 

[rfctigerarmy]

Originally posted by RoosterWedgie
Hi, Im looking at buying a laptop and I want some opinions.
Looking in the $2400-$2800 range and at the moment am swayint towards a Hewlett Packard 4201 with a 2ghz Celeron Processor, 512mb RAM, 64mb shared ram Video Card, 30gb Hard Drive, DVD Rom and the other usual stuff.
Its $2499. What do people think?
Any advice or experiences?

I dont have a laptop BUT I read brochures and magazines so I know a rough price for lap tops. 2 and a half seems fairly cheap for a good laptop like that one. If you could grab the HP id do it now before somebody else grabs it off ya!

 

[Spidergirl~RiCkChiCk]

check out my new baby its a nice blue colour that u prob cant see on there http://www.ht.com.au/Scripts/xworks.exe?PART:H0643
yet to connect it to the net but its lapping up the Ozzy dvd's that i keep feeding it every nite

 

[Desredandwhite]

Nice one Spidey! The Vaios have a bit of style about them. I know you were talking about getting one before but didn't know you'd gone ahead and got one.

Laptops rule I could never do without at least one now.

 

[Spidergirl~RiCkChiCk]

Originally posted by Desredandwhite
Nice one Spidey! The Vaios have a bit of style about them. I know you were talking about getting one before but didn't know you'd gone ahead and got one.

Laptops rule I could never do without at least one now.

yeh got it from HT round the corner from viccy park and nearly got mugged for it. thanks to everyone for the advice on here.

Lots of people are bagging Sony laptops actually not sure if its jealousy or what because i got told not to get one then when i showed the person the info on it, it turned out it was better than her so called $8,000 one! Toshibas may be top of the range but my room just had no space for their blandness!

 

[Squeak]

Stupid question, but can you get cable internet on a laptop?

 

[Spidergirl~RiCkChiCk]

Originally posted by Squeak
Stupid question, but can you get cable internet on a laptop?

probably

wondering wot do do about the net on mine. The built in modem seems raring to go as it keeps askin me to connect to a LAN. Im thinking pre paid net may be the way to go i just have no idea how it would all work having the built in modem.

 

[Desredandwhite]

Originally posted by Squeak
Stupid question, but can you get cable internet on a laptop?

You sure can I'm tapping on my laptop now, connected to telstra cable (who are getting the flick, to be replaced with iinet ADSL in a couple of weeks hopefully!!).

For intents and purposes, an internet connection doesn't care whether it's connected to a decktop computer or a laptop - as long as there's a computer on the other end of the connection

 

[jordy23]

there all good

 

[mighty mick]

Originally posted by Squeak
Stupid question, but can you get cable internet on a laptop?

spare usb port can be used or your laptop may have the 10/100 ethernet port all ready to go.

 

[Spidergirl~RiCkChiCk]

u mite want some insurance advice

It was covered under my parents home and contents for around 62,000ish but to make it covered outta the house i payed a little over 70...well worth it as they're the easiest damn things to steal!