New Laptop Advice

[NYfile]

Sorry if this is already posted somewhere else here.

Looking for a new laptop. Nothing too elaborate, just to play around with. Internet, slingbox, maybe a game, show pictures, etc. Trying to keep the cost down.

Any advice? Dell? Toshiba? AMD Processor? Best Buy? Micro Center? build your own? etc. Went to Best Buy last night, they were very helpfull.

How is Vista doing these days? Any chance of still getting XP, or should I go with Vista just to keep current?

I heard 2 gig minimum is needed for Vista.

[Monty007]

Hi, if you go with Vista get 2 gig of ram and Vista home premium...NOT BASIC!!!!!
Intel are now the leader over AMD and I just bought my first Intel processor after 10 years with AMD. Also I have an Acer lappy and Im really happy with it.

[Generator]

check out the Dell inspiron 1720, or a dell xps 1710 min you should go for is a Dual core 2,2 gigahertz speed and at least 2 gig ram, and 250 gig hd the xps are gaming laptops, some have a 7200 rpm hd and the have a DVI out port so you can hook up a larger monitor up to 30 inch.

[NYfile]

Thanks for the tips. I went with an HP Pavilion dv6700z. Saved about $50 through my job. Got it in the mail this week.

I am going to post this under hardware advice also. Here is my question.

When I got the laptop, I looked to see if it was the same as what I asked for.
The hard drive was listed a 100 gig, and I asked for 120 gig.
the wireless LAN was listed as 802.11 a/b/g/draft-n, and I choose 802.11 a/b/g/n

I did some google searches on the LAN, and found a message board that said the draft-n was before the n became standard.

I called HP and told them these two things. They said, that the hard drive is the correct size becasue of the way that computers display the hard drive size. That they go by 1024, and not 1000.

As for the LAN, he said that the draft-n is the same as the n.

Any thoughts on all of this?

Thanks.
NYF.

[Demotrion]

HP Laptops got standard models with the same hardware. I thought the same when I got my dv6790ej.

Enough to confirm the model to be sure, you can see it in the BIOS I think.