<p>Buy a cheap external, I bought a 160 gb one for 70 bux from best buy!</p>
<p>gateway CX2724...tablet. any other tablet users out there?</p>
<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>You are recommending 2.6 Gigahertz, in a laptop? What the hell are you talking about? The fastest core duo's right now are 2.16.</p>
<p>LaptopLover...good to see another Asus user. Anymore out there?</p>
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<p>Incorrect, my XPS Laptop has a 3.2 ghz prescott processor in it. The mobile intel pentiums currently have speeds up to 3.2 I think</p>
<p>Maybe it is just that my laptop is a "desktop replacement" with a desktop processor essentially stuck in it.</p>
<p>My newest laptop is an Apple iBook G4 1.2GHz. I had intended this to be my primary laptop but it's sort of in a platoon role (baseball fans know what this means). I use it for video editing and running newer stuff like Keynote, Pages, or the newest version of Excel. Unfortunately, I have a few problems with it. It gets way too hot (especially in the summer), the internal hard drive stalls a lot (I have an external I bought for it too), and I really don't like Mac OS X all that well.</p>
<p>My other laptop, which is stealing use time from my new iBook, is an old clamshell iBook in tangerine! Running a G3 at 300MHz and Mac OS 9, one would think it would be significantly slower. The only place it doesn't do as well is on the internet, but the network card and processor, both of which are older, handle AIM very well and can go to most websites as long as they don't need too many plugins (I use an old version of Internet Explorer on it). This site works fine. With Word 98 installed I am compatible with just about everyone.</p>
<p>And yes, it has a few big advantages over the new one. It can run Mac OS 9, which I prefer, as its native OS. The computer never overheats, probably because the hard drive actually has a fan. The display's brightness can be set lower on the lowest level, which is good for dark rooms to avoid eye strain. I can also run some old programs like MacDraw II that won't run on the new iBook. Another blessing is the 640 x 480 resolution that is available--you can actually read the text at 10 point! And the best part? It has a HANDLE! So I can lug it around and wack people with it (just kidding about the wacking, I used to wack one of my buddies with it at high school just as a joke since he used to always tease me about using a Mac).</p>
<p>Of course, there are a few setbacks as well. I can't use my new laser printer since there is no OS 9 driver. I also don't have a FireWire port and the iTunes version on there (2) won't work with iPods via USB. Also, I have a dead battery so I need to lug the power adapter everywhere (though I will probably buy a new one in the next few weeks).</p>
<p>I've had this laptop since August 15, 2000. It was the source of many great papers and assignments spanning from eighth grade to my freshman year of college. And I have no plans on retiring it.</p>
<p>300MHz is NOT slow at all! And you don't need a big video card, as I've found out. I use this all the time for Photoshop! The internal hard drive is a 6GB that would have more room on it if I didn't have so many MP3 files. The RAM is 192MB (the new one I have has 512MB). I've found this computer to be just as useable as the new ones for most things college students need it for the most--researaching stuff, using Word, photo and music management, and AIM.</p>
<p>Dell Latitude D820 Intel Core Duo T2400
1.83 GHZ 667Mhz Dual Core
LCD 15.4 Wide Screen WXGA
Memory 1.0 GB
Graphics Intel Integrated Graphics
Media Accelerator 950
Dell Printer 810</p>
<p>$1545 Bought thru the college, suggested by the college as the enhanced model...</p>
<p>"Incorrect, my XPS Laptop has a 3.2 ghz prescott processor in it. The mobile intel pentiums currently have speeds up to 3.2 I think</p>
<p>Maybe it is just that my laptop is a "desktop replacement" with a desktop processor essentially stuck in it."</p>
<p>That's definately not a laptop chip then, and pentium chips for laptops are obsolete. Either core duo's or the new Core 2 Duo's are the thing, and they are clocked at 2.16, but they will still run circles around the 3.2 pentium class chips.</p>
<p>Well whether or not the core duo's are more efficient is another thing. There are mobility CPU's that clock at around 3.2 ghz. I think dell did away with it because it sucked a mammoth amount of power and generated too much heat.
Speaking from experience my dell only lasts 45 minutes on battery.</p>
<p>Wow...my new iBook lasts only 2.5 hours or so but my old one was good for 4 when the battery was still good.</p>
<p>I have a powerbook G4... LOVE it. Customer service at the apple store is phenomenal, they're very supportive and willing to answer even the silliest, most novice questions. It is capable of leaving a few applications open at a time (AIM, internet browser, Word, iTunes) and not completely slowing down.</p>
<p>Tuftsplease, </p>
<p>I get a 30day free download from a movie site plus it's going to have a DVR, so I think i may be able to use up 240gb, I'd rather have way too much than not enough?</p>
<p>You will not be able to find 48 movies you want to watch. Believe me. 240gb/avg. 5gb (max a movie) = 48. Depending on the service, some of them are set at 700kb = 342 possible movies with a 240gb.</p>
<p>I pay fifteen dollars a month to use a service similiarly to the one you described. </p>
<p>To this day - I have not gotten 48 movies combined. You will find you have very little time to balance sports/academics/social let alone adding movies to the mix.</p>