Help me choose a laptop!

[nighthawk]

If you could handle a celeron, then PC-World are doing a very good deal on a Widescreen Toshiba model at the moment

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/sto...uct&sku=757685

£850inc VAT for a:

Intel Celeron 2.8GHZ Processor

256 mb RAM Memory

30 Gb Hard Drive

DVD-RW Drive

15.4" TFT widescreen

64MB ATi Mobility Radeon 9000 Graphics

MS Works software

1 x Firewire Connections

Windows XP Home Edition

1 Year Free warranty



widescreen and a DVD burner

[SMHarman]

For a laptop you should probably be considering a celeron or preferably Centrino. The power consumption is sufficiently lower to extend battery life considerably. I get 3.5+ hours on my Dell Inspiron 8600 15.4 W/S Centrino 1400 using the wirless for surfing.

The lower perfomance is not noticed unless you are working on big (and I mean big) spreadsheets, or big image / video files.

[ZrByte]

I get pretty good battery life out of my compaq presario 2143EA (i know its a compaq.... Shudder )

2500+ XP-M
512MB DDR 266Mhz
40GB hdd
integrated 11MBps wireless lan (Mini-PCI internal)
CDRW/DVDROM combo
Ati IGP 320 (Radeon 7XXX varient)
15" TFT

And the best bit is if you buy off ebay you can have this not amazing but pretty good value laptop for about £500 excVAT