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best laptop for mobility and HEAT

corkandproud · 2006-08-25 21:11:20

Need to get a new laptop and all the tosh's seem to be very large. Needs are light and mobile and it must be cool as I don't want to burn my knees Opinions please on my three selections: Dell XPS M1210 (Slow to buy a machine I haven't seen) HP Pavillion D2058EA (Like this, love the card reader) FS Amilo M6450 (Nice price,…

25-08-2006 9:11pm

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corkandproud

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Need to get a new laptop and all the tosh's seem to be very large. Needs are light and mobile and it must be cool as I don't want to burn my knees

Opinions please on my three selections:

Dell XPS M1210
(Slow to buy a machine I haven't seen)

HP Pavillion D2058EA
(Like this, love the card reader)

FS Amilo M6450
(Nice price, €899)

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#2 29-08-2006 6:11pm

markyboy

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Sure God love ya!

No-one wants to play!!!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054983436

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#3 29-08-2006 7:15pm

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markyboy wrote:

Sure God love ya!

No-one wants to play!!!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054983436

OP, it really depends on what you are after. Light and mobile is one thing but price and usage are important to. I spent the last three months looking at lap tops. I finally went for the sony SZ2. I was holding out to make sure I got the best I could and then that bloody Dual 2 core chip was released

Regardless of my hurting I went for the Sony because:

I could add a 3 year NBD warranty.
It is light at 1.6 kg and that suits my running around airports/ireland.
It is very powerful with good GFX.
The screen while small but at a very good resoloution is still very, very good. 13.3 inches. It's amazing actually.
It has an inbuilt DVD drive/burner.

So far my only issue, even though it is not really an issue yet, is that it only has two USB ports. They are quite expensive to and you are probably paying for the Sony name.

Basicaly it is harder than you think to recommened a lap top unless you have a really good idea of what you want/need. I based my first one on screen size and very quickly regretted it. You would be surprised how heavy a 15.4 inch lap top can become running through and airport.

Tosh by the way are like the Toyota of lap tops. Meant to be of a very good build quality and they do them in small as well.

http://www.computers.toshiba.ie/toshiba/irishhome.nsf/pages/home?opendocument&msection=products&hsection=products&mexpand=6&mpage=/toshiba/irishhome.nsf/pages/home-products-notebooks-portege?opendocument

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