<p>Just ordered it:
17" screen
Dell inspiron E1705
Windows XP media center edition
Intel Core DuoProcessor T2600 (2.16GHz/667MHz
2GB, DDR2 ram at 533MHz
256MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS
120GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
8X DVD+/-RW Drive
SoundBlaster audigy Advanced Audio card
80 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion battery</p>
<p>My mom basically said since we're willing to spend so much on college, might as well buy a good laptop. And I'm definitely going to love this thing!</p>
<p>I'm taking my dad's... don't remember all teh specs, but it's something like</p>
<p>900MHz, 256MB of memory and 40 GB on teh hardrive...</p>
<p>Dell Inspiron XPS
3.4 Ghz with HT
512 mb RAM
Radeon Mobility 9700 Pro
60 gb hard drive</p>
<p>Don't buy this laptop. Its great for gaming and all but it was poorly designed. The prescott processor they put in it generates excess heat and throttles down whenever it is doing something CPU intensive. They may have fixed the problem with the gen 2 XPS. Also don't buy any Alienware computers for they were bought out by Dell. And yes I am aware that I bought a Dell</p>
<p>If you guys could get any laptop what would it be? I think I've recently changed my mind to a HP dv8000t custom.
2.0ghz Core duo
1 gig ram
256 Nvidia 7600
240 Gb Hard Drive
~$2300</p>
<p>Plus other accessories</p>
<p>Strykur, i'm bringing my ridiculously old laptop too.. five or six years old. lol</p>
<p>Dell Inspiron 4100</p>
<p>1 GHz Pentium III
Dead battery
... i don't know anything else about it.</p>
<p>costs 100 for a new battery. danng. =/</p>
<p>hoping to get a new mac but only if this laptop poops out.</p>
<p>What would be the most you would reccommend in the basics of a laptop, ghz, ram, videocard, hard drive...</p>
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<p>If you are planning on buying a newer laptop you are probably going to get speeds of 2.8 and above. I don't think you'll find too many new laptops with less horsepower than that. 512 mb should be your minimum cutoff for RAM. Anything more than 1 gb is a waste of money unless your running a server, playing a video game and designing a website on adobe all at the same time. The video card is totally up to you. More than likely whatever laptop your looking at will have a suitable videocard unless you want to play games. Then you need to start looking at higher end video cards like the radeon 9700's and above. As far as a hard drive goes, you only need about 20 gb unless you plan on playing games. Then spring for the 60 or 80 gb.</p>
<p>So as far as a hard drive, what if you have tons of music and will be saving lots of movies to your computer? How many gb of hd would you need? I was going to go with 240gb just in case.</p>
<p>Damn!! 240GB on a laptop? I honestly don't think you'll need all that. I'd say 120 should be fine, maybe 200GB. But make sure you look at the speed of the drive (the rpm). Drives that large tend to have lower speeds, and that means it'll take a lot longer to access information on it. Try to get a drive that's got at least 5000 rpm.</p>
<p>Ya, the drives are customizable 200gb @5400rpm and 240@5400rpm and 160gb@5400rpm, then 100@7200rpm</p>
<p>Ah, well that's good. Still, I think 240 is a bit much. But you're probably the best judge of how much stuff you'll be putting on it.</p>
<p>Supposing all your songs are around 4-5 megabytes, one gigabyte of space can hold about 240 songs. 240 gigabytes can hold 57,600 songs. Are you really going to download that many? It is all up to you...</p>
<p>Ya, but as far as movies ?</p>
<p>In that case I say go for it :D</p>
<p>Computer I'm bringing to Cornell (doesn't include the others I'm keeping at home :p )</p>
<p>ASUS W5F
12.1 wide WXGA (amazing resolution for such a screen size!), 4 lbs, glossy screen
1.66gHz Core Duo
512 mb RAM (upgradable to 1.5 GB)
100 GB Harddrive
Intel GMA 950 (not a gamer :p )
4 hrs battery on 6 cell, 6 hrs on 9 cell under reasonable loads.</p>
<p>Extras:
1.3 megapizel webcam, PCI Express slot, built-in bluetooth/wireless, optical drive (always nice to have in an ultraportable :) ).</p>
<p>Calculates Super Pi (2 million digits of Pi) in 88 seconds!!!!!! :D</p>
<p>Dell E1505...for an amazing price!</p>
<p>Also, for those considering a 17 inch, I would not go for it. Might as well get a desktop for 1/2 the price with 2x the better graphics. ;)</p>
<p>black macbook with 1 gig of ram upgrade. pwned.</p>
<p>"black macbook with 1 gig of ram upgrade. pwned."</p>
<p>Don't get the BlackBook. Update the white version for $150 less.</p>
<p>jhum111, </p>
<p>I know you may be thinking - oh sweet! A college campus with amazing internet - and immediately think that you'll download all your movies. Sometimes it'll be harder than you think because many college ban the same ports used for filesharing services.</p>
<p>You will not need a 240GB. If you intend to BUILD an entire collection of movies, perhaps you will, but the majority of users if they watch a movie, they promptly delete it after.</p>
<p>they can still go through your computer and see all the files deleted etc, best thing to do is make sure u dont tell ppl and if ppl know make sure they keep it on the dl</p>