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#16 Post by 2005 » Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:23 am

Any reasons for that... im almost 100% sure it will be an HP now.

With my mothers H&R block discount plus the back to school no tax discount (which if you cant use both ill take the H&R as its 10% not 6%) Ill save probably atleast 100$ and HP so far was the most reasonable with what you get for your money.

I've looked into 3 different laptops from Sony, Dell and HP. Heres the results:

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#17 Post by palmboy5 » Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:19 pm

ew only one of thems dual core and the AMD one isnt an X2 :[

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2827
"* Super Pi Run Alone: 1m 16s
* Super Pi Run While watching DVD: 1m 16s"
LOL
the dell looks the best :P and screw the sony one
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#18 Post by 2005 » Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:57 pm

Like they have it.. its about 1250$ from dell... only differences are you get 1GB ram free and theirs no 100GB 5400RPM drive as an option.

Battery life seems okay, I would get the 9 cell battery which is like 4.5 hours or so but I would have to get two batterys.

This is alittle more then I wanted to spend, maybe though... maybe
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#19 Post by palmboy5 » Sun Aug 20, 2006 7:22 pm

next month dell will have AMD desktops so laptops wont be far behind :]
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#20 Post by 2005 » Sun Aug 20, 2006 9:50 pm

Yea lol... and im not buying it until atleast next feburary
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#21 Post by 2005 » Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:15 am

Do I really want an AMD X2 though... I mean sure a 3800+ is hella cheap now but I think I've heard good stuff about the Turion A64's also... you hear any positive stuff about them???
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#22 Post by palmboy5 » Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:38 pm

lol no i still have an impression that turions get smashed by the centrino-class.. there is one thing one guy said, something like turions have a better battery life when idling, pentium m's have a better battery life full load.
but anyway, turion is slower.
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#23 Post by 2005 » Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:14 pm

eh heh... I need something with a decenty battery life like around atleast 3 hours per battery.
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#24 Post by palmboy5 » Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:42 pm

i guarentee you my ASUS Z71V still does that but its no longer being produced >.>
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