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Help Me Buy A Laptop

  • 26-02-2005 6:11pm
    #1
    Pauleeeeeeee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 644 ✭✭✭


    I have €1000 euro give or take to buy a laptop.

    I'll be using for photoshop, dreamweaver, flash, video editing etc....basically multimedia type stuff.


    I've looked at one or two laptops but stuff like intergrated video and a celeron processor have kind of turned me off them. Should I be expecting things things like that though if I'm only willing to spend €1000?

    Thanks in advance.

    -Pauleeeeeeee


Comments

  • #2
    JamesByrne979
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭JamesByrne979


    Im in the same boat as yourself!!!

    ive got about €900 - €1000 to spend and dont have a clue what kind of laptop to buy

    heres a link to a good websit in kildare that seems to do a decent range of stuff (the actual link is for a laptop i was thinking of buying but just click home)

    http://www.elara.ie/products/detailsfull.asp?productcode=ECE983187&productID=110544

    with the kind of stuff youd wanna be doin id probley say an Apple Mac laptop would suit you best..

    :)


  • #3
    heggie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,879 ✭✭✭heggie


    dont worry about the integrated video unless your using it for games, for that money i'd recommend an ibook, much better processor than a celeron, tho you'll probably need a ram upgrade.


  • #4
    WillieDH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 425 ✭✭WillieDH


    ESB are doing a Fujitsu Mobile Celeron 1.5, 512MB, 40GB, DVD Burner, 15.4" widescreen

    Be able to use hotspots as well


  • #5
    surfjungle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭surfjungle


    now even tho i know your budget is €1000 some questions you may want to ask yourself are:

    1) speed vs mobility - if you go for speed you may want a pentium 4 (a desktop replacement type machine) which will eat your battery, a centrino (pentium m) is built for mobility. (i wouldnt wish a celeron on anyone)

    2) amount of ram - 512 is standard but for heavy graphics you may need a gig o' rammage

    3) not so sure about graphics, cant go wrong with a card but with that budget its igp all the way (integrated graphics port as opposed to agp)

    you can get a dell inspiron 8600c from €1171
    -wxga+ screen
    -1.6 pentium m
    -512 ram
    -32 meg basic graphics card
    -1 year car warranty
    -40 gig 5400rpm hard drive

    also check out the dell inspiron 6000 (or if your feeling suave the new 9300 - all the above a centrino - i assume your looking for mobility)

    you should also check out pc world or aldi for bargains - some of the aldi laptops are killer - but u'll have to wait until they appear.


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