Which laptop?

Peteee

First, sorry for another one of these!

Am thinking of buying a laptop in a few months before i go back to college again.

I want (around abouts) a 15 inch screen, so that its not a monster to transport. Preferably widescreen.

Either a Intel or AMD would do (leaning towards AMD, due to better tech, 64-bits and all that, also to give the proverbial finger to intel!)

512 RAM minimum. Harddrive not too bothered about cos i'll take my WD 160 gig outta my desktop and get an external case.

Graphics are important, maybe around the 9600/9700 mark from what i've been looking at.

Wireless is a must (although its pretty standard anyways)

Battery life isn't too important, 80% of the time it'll be working off the powersupply.

Be used for coding (programming and web), bit of gaming, bit of photoshopping, video editing (so having a 1394 port is important) and general use. Will be running some sort of flavour of linux on it, along with win xp pro (and eventually longhorn i suppose)

Have narrowed it down to:

Fujitsu Siemens Amilo A 1630 : AMD Athlon 64 3700+ • 512 MB • 80GB HDD • 128 ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 • kein FDD • DVD+/-RW Dual Double Layer Brenner • 15.4" WXGA TFT (1280x800 Pixel), wifi and firewire

(jes-computer.de - €1,049)

Acer Aspire 5022WLMi : AMD Turion™ 64 Prozessor ML30 1,6GHz, 512mb ram, 80gig hd, dvd dual layer burner, 15.4" WXGA Acer CrystalBrite TFT LCD mit 1280 x 800, ATI® MOBILITY™ RADEON™ X700, mit 128 MB VRAM, wifi and firewire

(jes-computer.de - €1,139)

Acer Aspire 1691WLMi : same as acer above but with Mobile Intel® Centrino™ Technologie Intel® Pentium® M Prozessor 730 1,6GHz, 2MB L2 Cache and 533Mhz FSB

(jes-computer.de - €1,047)

Gericom Blockbuster Excellent 7000 1.7 -
• 15,4" Wide Screen Crystal Brite View Display (Glare Panel) (WXGA 1280x800)
• Intel Pentium M 735 Centrino mit 1,70 GHz, 2MB L2 Cache
• Hauptspeicher: 512MB DDR RAM (2x 256MB, beide Bänke belegt)
• High End Grafikkarte ATI Radeon Mobility 9700 mit 256MB RAM
• 80GB Festplatte
• Dual DVD +-R/RW Brenner Kombo-Laufwerk mit Double Layer Technologie
wireless, firewire

(jes-computer.de - €1,099)


At the minute i'm leaning toward the fujitsu-siemens, because of the monster processor!

Anybody have any other recommendations? Heard good or bad things about the laptops above?

Will also keep a look out in the dell outlet for any cheap 6000's

Thanks in advance

kaimera

aye, the F-S is a solid looking machine for that price

wonder what the heat is like from a cpu like that tho :-/

graphics in the rest are better so it's decide if you want brute processing power/less gpu power or less cpu/more gpu grunt. [a 256meg 9700 will be better than the 128meg]

RE*AC*TOR

one big issue - buying a laptop from jes.de - it will have a german keyboard layout...

Peteee

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

one big issue - buying a laptop from jes.de - it will have a german keyboard layout...

Right thats a bit of a downer, they have the 'z' and the 'a' messed up dont they? something along those lines. Anybody clarify?

Then again the acer lappy is 300 euro more expensive on laptopsdirect as opposed to jes