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cubanlord · Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Location: In Japan!

I take it Demophobe doesn't care about ram. Cool

Pangit · Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Location: Puet mo.

No, he's pointing out that you're off base.

cubanlord · Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Location: In Japan!

how would you say that the speed of ram is off-base?

Pangit · Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Location: Puet mo.

It looked like you were making an issue of what the bus speed for the Averatec laptop was. I'm saying you're off base because you think RAM bus speed is an issue when it comes to this paticular laptop. 333 MHz should suffice, and if you checked before firing off a post, you would have seen that the bus speed for that laptop is adequate.

rumpolestitskin · Joined: 12 Jun 2005

prairieboy · Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Location: The batcave.

rumpolestitskin · Joined: 12 Jun 2005

One option to think about is of Buying a laptop and an Panel Display.

You can use the Panel display at home via the monitor out port on the laptop (Make sure whatever laptop you buy supports a good external resolution) and have what is in appearance a normal desktop. Buy a USB keyb and mouse to fulfil the expereince.

Whilst still having the benfit of small size portability.

At least thats what I do.

Demophobe · Joined: 17 May 2004

First, RAM speeds are up to PC4200 DDR2. (Actually, one can purchase PC5400, but without an overclock, it's not useful)

Second, PC133 RAM in a modern P4 laptop? Not since perhaps 2001.

I care greatly about RAM speeds, so I posted....at least I care enough to know. Laughing

huck · Joined: 19 Jan 2003

go to http://www.h-p.com (hewlett packard online), and build your own....it's cheaper than Korea...

prairieboy · Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Location: The batcave.

I'm checking out a Toshiba Qosimo G15.

It seems like a decent system. Centrino, with a pentium 1.86GHz, 512 Mb Ram, CD/DVD+/-RW, 1 60Gb HD (5400rpm) and 1 40Gb HD (5400rpm). 17 inch screen. Basically everything I'm looking for and a very reasonable price (not the $2300 it retails for).

Anyone have any experience with this laptop? Good and bad points please.

Cheers

rumpolestitskin · Joined: 12 Jun 2005

Have no expereince with that model, but all the Toshiba's I've had have been first rate.

See how much warrenty it has. I know some of the tosh's get 3 years.

Greekfreak · Joined: 25 May 2003

I was also looking at the Averatec models, but isn't the risk you run with what's basically a no-name company, that you get crappy tech support/warranties?

kprrok · Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Location: KC

Averatec laptops are not by a no-name company. They're made by TG, a very good brand. I've got one and it's great. I've not had any problem, other than the ones I've caused through stupidity or neglegence.

KPRROK

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

I agree with the other post, avoid HP. My HP laptop lasted 1.5 years. Keys started to fall off the keyboard. The RAM fried after about 2 or 3 months of use. Then the motherboard or the BIOS chip melted down. The thing was a slow pig on top of that.

Also read my laptop sticky note at the top. Always ask for the English Windows O/S to be installed. As well, ask if they have English driver/disk image CDs. My most recent laptop didn't come with an English driver CD. The properitary stuff is regionalized for Korea/Korean. There are some strange little things like the Won symbol for the backslash.

fasequeira · Joined: 20 May 2004

One thing to consider when choosing the maker is the scope of the warranty. If you order or get a laptop brought in from overseas, the warranty may or may not be valid here. Of course you could probably get it serviced and fixed, but not under warranty.

If you are going to buy a laptop and stay in Korea for more than a year (standard warranty length for most things) then it may be worth considering buying through a company here. At least even if it's an import, the store you buy it from here will likely give you an in-store warranty.

If you don't really care about warranties, you'll likely get a cheaper price on a laptop overseas. That is,of course, if you can bring it over yourself or get someone to bring it for you. Otherwise there are shipping and custom fees to deal with that might end up making it more expensive.

I have an intel PC desktop and my laptop was an ibook. I loved my ibook and the only reason I sold it was because I don't travel much and I wanted a more powerful desktop. The downside with the mac laptops is that they are pretty expensive.