[Shidasko]

uhh... pay attention bsek.. there is a big differnece between "THREAD and "TREAD" one deals with string and online forums, and the other deal with tires..

[BSEK]

Whatever Shido! I just get ny Dell back... And I'm testing it out.

[Shidasko]

and it broke...

[BSEK]

and it broke...

Well! You could say that. When i first get my Dell it was not letting me log in ... And I had to take it back to the help desk. But yesterday I get it back.. And I needed to test out my Dell to see if the Internet was working...

[Shidasko]

i'm sure you were the one to mess it up.. and it was fine... but you know.. it's dell so it's defective either way

[BSEK]

Shido one thing... I DID NOT MESS UP MY DELL, MY DELL WAS MESS UP WHEN I GOT IT!!!! AND THEY TOLD THE STUDENTS TO TAKE THEIR DELLS TO THE HELP DESK IN MORNING!!!!!!!! And stop blameing the things that happened me, by blameing it on me . 

[Shidasko]

i said it was defective already, cus it was a dell... >.<

[Skuld-chan]

Anybody thinking of purchasing laptops?

[James]

reading

[Shidasko]

if your are going o buy a AMD processor laptop, key note about thsoe laptop processors, especially Sempron and Turion processors, they actually run faster than Intel processors but they over heat way tooo fast..

[Skuld-chan]

Actually, I really don't care about the processing power.  I'm looking for something light weight, that runs cool, and has at least 3 hours of battery life.

Feature Summary:

• Under 5 pounds or lower
• Over 3 hours or more of battery life
• Intergrated wireless (a/b/g), LAN, and Modem
• Full size keyboard
• Upgradeable RAM, Hard Drive
• Quality built, high durability, good reviews...
• CD-RW hot swapable with second battery

That's my list in order of precedence (sp??)

[Shidasko]

Well if you are looking for long life battery, then you'll need a 12 Cell Lithium battery. From what I understand over at Staples...
Average weight on a laptop ranges from 4.5-7 pounds.
All the laptops we sell at staples have the built in Wireless and Wired Lan with 56k cards.
What do you mean by full size keyboard?? If you are referring to the numpad. Good luck on that search as I have yet to see a numpad on the right side.
The upgradable ram and harddrive.. USually ram is upgradable in decent floor models about half of what we carry can be upgraded in the ram. But there are limitations to the maximum ram size.
Upgrading the harddrive, unless you konw how to do it. It can be extremely costly to get a bigger drive and to upgraded it. The standard size or at least average sized harddrive in our laptops is a 80 gig. Although there are some with 60gig hdds.

The review part, you'll need to find that information on your own. As I can garuntee somewhere around the world, that someone has a good/bad experience with every product out there.

Swapping the CD-RW with a second battery?! Dats crazy talk! lol, just joking. I've never heard of doing that...
I do know that all of our laptops or at least most come stock with a DVD+R/-R/+RW/-RW writer.. or at least our floor models. but if you get a custom build it's going to be extra.

What exactly are you going to be using it for, and then i can give further guidance based off of your response.

[Sari]

I'll have to remember that...

[BSEK]

*BSEK now has "X" in each eye.. BSEK falls backward*



Too much info X.x ahhh...

[Skuld-chan]

By full size keyboard, I mean one that that is not compressed down to tiny buttons.

CD-RW isn't really necessary, since I'll be using the USB and Wireless to access any off loaded information, but I've seen an option where you can slap in a secondary battery to extend the life of the laptop to at least 7 hours.

Pretty much from what I've read, 512 MB of RAM is required not to have a sluggish experiance with today's (current) software.  Hard drive, I could really care less if it was only a 20GB (I've been using a 20GB on my PC now for years, that I still have yet to completly fill up.  Not to mention that any data that I won't use that often will be backed up via USB or Wireless to my server.

Mainly, I'll be using it for college life (taking notes, word processing, reading email, surfing the Net, and some light coding for when I need the extra 5 minutes to cram before a programming class   ), Organizing my role playing, and keeping up with A.net when ever I'm at my local Starbucks or Panara Bread.  I occationally might play something like Rise of Nations or Age of Empires II.