A'ight.. I have come to the point of being utterly annoyed and desperate when it comes to packing schoolwork and such around between 3 different places, either through ftp or jump drive. So.. I decided to look at laptops and heres a list of ones I was looking at:
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HP Pavilion DV1000
1.4 Ghz Pentium M
1x 512 MB DDR 400(so later when I get $$ I can bump it up)
80 Gig 4200 RPM Hard Drive
DVD/CD-RW Combo
64 Megabyte Intel Extreme Graphics
Intel Pro/Wireless 2200 802.11BG WLAN
12 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
14.0" WXGA BrightView Widescreen (1280x768)
Harmon Kardon 16 bit speakers
Price: $1,274.00
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eMachines M5405
Mobile AMD Sempron™ 2800+ Processor Operates at 1.6GHz 256KB L2 Cache
512 MB DDR (PC 2700)
60 GB HDD(I'll assume its 4200RPM)
DVD/CD-RW Combo
SiS M760 64meg video
Integrated 802.11g Wireless LAN, 10/100Mbps built-in Ethernet
8-cell Lithium-ion
15.4" Widescreen TFT LCD WXGA (1280 x 800 max. resolution)
Built-in Stereo Speakers
Price: $999.99
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Dell Inspiron 700m
1.6 Ghz Pentium M
2x 256 Meg DDR(unmentioned speed)
12.1-in WXGA
60Gig HD
DVD/CD-RW Combo
802.11G wireless
64 meg Intel Extreme Graphics
Price: $1,447
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Apple iBook G4
1.2 GHz PowerPC G4 processor
256 MB DDR SDRAM > I'll probably upgrade the RAM to 512
30 GB ATA/100 hard drive> and upgrade the HD to the next largest...
12.1 inch TFT XGA display
AirPort Extreme 802.11g
32 megabyte ATI Mobility Radeon 9200
DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive
Price: $1000
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I am more or less leaning towards the Apple iBook or the HP DV1000. I just need something I can run *Nix to do my school stuffs(and music, video and DVDs
), which is basically text documents, photos, and other things. This system will mostly definatly be 100% *Nix... If I get a Mac, I'll put Virtual PC on it just for kicks since I have it already(MS partners program sends us some of the most useless stuff sometimes).