Looking for a laptop
mitch @ 11:19 am on May 24, 2006
I’ve been looking for a laptop recently… and I’m disappointed at the options to be honest. My preference is for one with an AMD proc (see previous posts for my reasons why), but its not my main preference. I want a “notebook”, a laptop that will fit on my lap. I don’t want one of the borderline desktop replacements that most people want. I currently have a Dell D800 from work… and its a tank frankly… Its way to big/bulky for me to comfortably carry around. My main grip with laptops, is I want one thats roughly the same size as a piece of paper (lenght and width… ~8.5×11) Now I’ve been really interested in the HP/Compaq V2000z. It fits both of my mentioned requirements, however, something that also came to my attention while looking at them is screen resolution… I do like to get as much screen realestate as possible. Being a widescreen laptop helps, but why are the resolutions still so small? Why isn’t there an option to upgrade the screen to one that can do a higher resolution? I know its possible… as the higher end laptops have the type of resolution that I would like… or did I just answer my own question? Performance wise I don’t demand much, just want at the very least 512MB RAM, and a 5400RPM hard drive (size isn’t of that much importance as I’ll sync and store stuff of my desktop’s 160GB drive…) so 60GB disk will be plenty. (since I will still be dual booting on it) and proc speed… anything recent will be fine. Its just the screen resolution… why oh why isn’t it an option in these “customizable” laptops? Because they don’t want people to know how much the screens cost? I don’t see how it would be that much more work to trouble shoot and warrantee two different screens than it is for multiple processors, ram or hard drives. If it was an option… I probably would have bought the laptop already…
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