What to buy...

solace

Right, I've been looking for ages and I still have no confidence in my own knowledge soooo.... I'm looking for a laptop that's around €1000 (might be able to spend more...perhaps up to about €1200). I wouldn't really need it for gaming but I'd like to be able to play fairly recent games. I'd use it more for web-design/browsing, typing, listening to music, dvds, image editing (paint shop pro) and a little movie editing (nothing huge). 14/15" screen is perfect and NOT widescreen, if possible (Why are so many laptops widescreen now?). Um, 512mb ram minimum. Now, I don't totally understand processors. I've gathered that Centrinos > Celerons but I've no idea how much better a 1.7 would be than a 1.4... so yeah, don't know about the processor, it doesn't even have to be Intel. 40gb minimum, more would be nice but not essential. Wireless is also required. I'm assuming DVD re-writers are almost standard now so that too. So yeah, summary:


Processor: Unsure.
Memory: 512mb minimum.
Screen: 14/15" not widescreen preferrably.
Harddrive: 40GB minimum (a little more would be nice )
Built in wireless, and alright graphics card.

Any ideas? Thanks a million!

commited

You'll be struggling for that price, the Dell inspiron 6000 nearly matches requirement, except its widescreen..

solace

Are you serious? Dammit, thought it would've been easy enough to find a suitable one. Aside from the annoying resolution, are there any other drawbacks to widescreens?

Creamy Goodness

they make the laptop wider?

my brother has got one of them inspiron 9300 with a 17" widescreen and man is it massive. so big in fact that he's having trouble sourcing a backpack to carry it in.

solace

Yeah, I suppose. The laptop being wider wouldn't bother me too much, I just thought the bigger the monitor, the more expensive.