OT Laptop advise requested...

BKKSW said:

After reading the recommendations in this thread for the IBM
Thinkpads I just went to their site and tried to find what I need
for my needs.. IBM doesn't make what I need, or at least I can't
find it. Maybe someone could link me to the right place to find
these specs..

3.06gig P4 with hyperthreading
500mhz side bus
1920x1200 LCD display, allows for full image plus pallettes on the
side of the widescreen.
64mb Video Card (at least)
80 gig HDD 5400rpm (or bigger)
CD-RW/DVD-+RW combo drive
Integrated Wi-fi a/g/b
Intergrated Bluetooth
Modem with answering machine and fax capabilities
5 hours of battery life with two attached batteries.
Touchpad and stick
4 year international AT HOME warranty service
4 USB 2.0 ports
2 Firewire ports (large 6 pin)
PCMCIA slot
Less than seven pounds

This is what I want to purchase in the next 30 days in addition to
the Dell I already have which meets ALL of these specs with the
exception of a 2.6gig P4.

I've had Dell laptops for 10 years now. In fact.. I still have
three of them in use now. Dell has repaired my laptops while
traveling in other countries and at home. Recently they sent me
the above laptop to replace a much lesser unit that had to be
repaired three times. The fourth time it needed repair they asked
if I wanted to replace the unit with a brandnew one.. I said sure
and was surrprised to receive their latest model with all the bells
and whistles. To be fair most of the repairs that Dell has done
over the years has been wear and tear items from heavy use while
travelinig. Things like a slashed power cord, several new keyboard
as I wear the numbers off the keys, a HDD went bad, a touchpad,
firewire port (small four pin) loosened up, and the little flip
doors on the PCMCIA slots have stuck or come off. Small things for
sure..

I had a Thinkpad a long time ago and remember it being very solid
and the service great.. and if IBM has what I need I'd give them a
chance to show Dell my displeasure at moving one of their support
centres to India.. which wouldn't be so bad if the techs who
answered the phones in heavily accented English hadn't told me to
speak cleary...:O)

BKKSW

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arob said:

I bought a P4 3.0 in November, Dell 5150, highly loaded with
DVD/CDRW burner and love it.
I hope that you can build one that fits your needs....

BKKSW said:

After reading the recommendations in this thread for the IBM
Thinkpads I just went to their site and tried to find what I need
for my needs.. IBM doesn't make what I need, or at least I can't
find it. Maybe someone could link me to the right place to find
these specs..

3.06gig P4 with hyperthreading
500mhz side bus
1920x1200 LCD display, allows for full image plus pallettes on the
side of the widescreen.
64mb Video Card (at least)
80 gig HDD 5400rpm (or bigger)
CD-RW/DVD-+RW combo drive
Integrated Wi-fi a/g/b
Intergrated Bluetooth
Modem with answering machine and fax capabilities
5 hours of battery life with two attached batteries.
Touchpad and stick
4 year international AT HOME warranty service
4 USB 2.0 ports
2 Firewire ports (large 6 pin)
PCMCIA slot
Less than seven pounds

This is what I want to purchase in the next 30 days in addition to
the Dell I already have which meets ALL of these specs with the
exception of a 2.6gig P4.

I've had Dell laptops for 10 years now. In fact.. I still have
three of them in use now. Dell has repaired my laptops while
traveling in other countries and at home. Recently they sent me
the above laptop to replace a much lesser unit that had to be
repaired three times. The fourth time it needed repair they asked
if I wanted to replace the unit with a brandnew one.. I said sure
and was surrprised to receive their latest model with all the bells
and whistles. To be fair most of the repairs that Dell has done
over the years has been wear and tear items from heavy use while
travelinig. Things like a slashed power cord, several new keyboard
as I wear the numbers off the keys, a HDD went bad, a touchpad,
firewire port (small four pin) loosened up, and the little flip
doors on the PCMCIA slots have stuck or come off. Small things for
sure..

I had a Thinkpad a long time ago and remember it being very solid
and the service great.. and if IBM has what I need I'd give them a
chance to show Dell my displeasure at moving one of their support
centres to India.. which wouldn't be so bad if the techs who
answered the phones in heavily accented English hadn't told me to
speak cleary...:O)

BKKSW

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arob said:

I bought a P4 3.0 in November, Dell 5150, highly loaded with
DVD/CDRW burner and love it.
I hope that you can build one that fits your needs....

BKKSW said:

After reading the recommendations in this thread for the IBM
Thinkpads I just went to their site and tried to find what I need
for my needs.. IBM doesn't make what I need, or at least I can't
find it. Maybe someone could link me to the right place to find
these specs..

3.06gig P4 with hyperthreading
500mhz side bus
1920x1200 LCD display, allows for full image plus pallettes on the
side of the widescreen.
64mb Video Card (at least)
80 gig HDD 5400rpm (or bigger)
CD-RW/DVD-+RW combo drive
Integrated Wi-fi a/g/b
Intergrated Bluetooth
Modem with answering machine and fax capabilities
5 hours of battery life with two attached batteries.
Touchpad and stick
4 year international AT HOME warranty service
4 USB 2.0 ports
2 Firewire ports (large 6 pin)
PCMCIA slot
Less than seven pounds

This is what I want to purchase in the next 30 days in addition to
the Dell I already have which meets ALL of these specs with the
exception of a 2.6gig P4.

I've had Dell laptops for 10 years now. In fact.. I still have
three of them in use now. Dell has repaired my laptops while
traveling in other countries and at home. Recently they sent me
the above laptop to replace a much lesser unit that had to be
repaired three times. The fourth time it needed repair they asked
if I wanted to replace the unit with a brandnew one.. I said sure
and was surrprised to receive their latest model with all the bells
and whistles. To be fair most of the repairs that Dell has done
over the years has been wear and tear items from heavy use while
travelinig. Things like a slashed power cord, several new keyboard
as I wear the numbers off the keys, a HDD went bad, a touchpad,
firewire port (small four pin) loosened up, and the little flip
doors on the PCMCIA slots have stuck or come off. Small things for
sure..

I had a Thinkpad a long time ago and remember it being very solid
and the service great.. and if IBM has what I need I'd give them a
chance to show Dell my displeasure at moving one of their support
centres to India.. which wouldn't be so bad if the techs who
answered the phones in heavily accented English hadn't told me to
speak cleary...:O)

BKKSW

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BKKSW said:

After reading the recommendations in this thread for the IBM
Thinkpads I just went to their site and tried to find what I need
for my needs.. IBM doesn't make what I need, or at least I can't
find it. Maybe someone could link me to the right place to find
these specs..

3.06gig P4 with hyperthreading
500mhz side bus
1920x1200 LCD display, allows for full image plus pallettes on the
side of the widescreen.
64mb Video Card (at least)
80 gig HDD 5400rpm (or bigger)
CD-RW/DVD-+RW combo drive
Integrated Wi-fi a/g/b
Intergrated Bluetooth
Modem with answering machine and fax capabilities
5 hours of battery life with two attached batteries.
Touchpad and stick
4 year international AT HOME warranty service
4 USB 2.0 ports
2 Firewire ports (large 6 pin)
PCMCIA slot
Less than seven pounds

This is what I want to purchase in the next 30 days in addition to
the Dell I already have which meets ALL of these specs with the
exception of a 2.6gig P4.

I've had Dell laptops for 10 years now. In fact.. I still have
three of them in use now. Dell has repaired my laptops while
traveling in other countries and at home. Recently they sent me
the above laptop to replace a much lesser unit that had to be
repaired three times. The fourth time it needed repair they asked
if I wanted to replace the unit with a brandnew one.. I said sure
and was surrprised to receive their latest model with all the bells
and whistles. To be fair most of the repairs that Dell has done
over the years has been wear and tear items from heavy use while
travelinig. Things like a slashed power cord, several new keyboard
as I wear the numbers off the keys, a HDD went bad, a touchpad,
firewire port (small four pin) loosened up, and the little flip
doors on the PCMCIA slots have stuck or come off. Small things for
sure..

I had a Thinkpad a long time ago and remember it being very solid
and the service great.. and if IBM has what I need I'd give them a
chance to show Dell my displeasure at moving one of their support
centres to India.. which wouldn't be so bad if the techs who
answered the phones in heavily accented English hadn't told me to
speak cleary...:O)

BKKSW

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dave newton said:

I am planning on picking-up a laptop PC in the coming months to use
in the field to review and possibly edit photos. I will still use
my desktop for serious editing. I am not in a position to spend
more than about $1200.00 on this purchase. I have seen laptop
displays that are very good and plenty that are very poor with
regards to color accuracy and overall photo image display quality.
My Dell Lattitude that I use for my regular job has pretty poor
color accuracy and would probably not be acceptable. I have seen
Powerbooks (Apple) that look great but are out my my price league.
I'm looking for a good compromise. Tha machine has to be a PC not a
Mac.

Thoughts?
--
Dave

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beaver beacon said:

First one friend had their Dell internal modem suddenly stop
working and all of a sudden started getting "no dialtone" errors -
tried multiple lines, new drivers, xp rollback to when it was
working fine, and 6-8 hours troubleshooting on the phone with
Dell. Never found a solution except a new notebook, and 3-year
onsite warranty service turned out to be worthless

Next the first week of December a second friend bought a 15"
inspiron for around $1100 with a ram upgrade, etc. Arrived and
worked for 3 days, then all of a sudden it would no longer generate
any video or boot - no display, no external vga, nothing except an
on light. Dell did fix that one and it's now working fine, but it
took them 3 weeks turn around time even though it broke within the
first three days of being brand new which seems pretty slow.

Anyway, I'm batting zero for two on my recent Dell notebook
recommendations. I don't think they're built solid enough anymore
and I think to get the price down they've cheapened the components
and support services too much lately. (Their desktops are still
very nicely built though it seems to me. )

I also am not wild about their screens - the brand new Dell
notebook lcd image quality isn't nearly as good as my 3-year old
viewsonic desktop lcd - not even close when you look at them side
by side.

BKKSW said:

After reading the recommendations in this thread for the IBM
Thinkpads I just went to their site and tried to find what I need
for my needs.. IBM doesn't make what I need, or at least I can't
find it. Maybe someone could link me to the right place to find
these specs..

3.06gig P4 with hyperthreading
500mhz side bus
1920x1200 LCD display, allows for full image plus pallettes on the
side of the widescreen.
64mb Video Card (at least)
80 gig HDD 5400rpm (or bigger)
CD-RW/DVD-+RW combo drive
Integrated Wi-fi a/g/b
Intergrated Bluetooth
Modem with answering machine and fax capabilities
5 hours of battery life with two attached batteries.
Touchpad and stick
4 year international AT HOME warranty service
4 USB 2.0 ports
2 Firewire ports (large 6 pin)
PCMCIA slot
Less than seven pounds

This is what I want to purchase in the next 30 days in addition to
the Dell I already have which meets ALL of these specs with the
exception of a 2.6gig P4.

I've had Dell laptops for 10 years now. In fact.. I still have
three of them in use now. Dell has repaired my laptops while
traveling in other countries and at home. Recently they sent me
the above laptop to replace a much lesser unit that had to be
repaired three times. The fourth time it needed repair they asked
if I wanted to replace the unit with a brandnew one.. I said sure
and was surrprised to receive their latest model with all the bells
and whistles. To be fair most of the repairs that Dell has done
over the years has been wear and tear items from heavy use while
travelinig. Things like a slashed power cord, several new keyboard
as I wear the numbers off the keys, a HDD went bad, a touchpad,
firewire port (small four pin) loosened up, and the little flip
doors on the PCMCIA slots have stuck or come off. Small things for
sure..

I had a Thinkpad a long time ago and remember it being very solid
and the service great.. and if IBM has what I need I'd give them a
chance to show Dell my displeasure at moving one of their support
centres to India.. which wouldn't be so bad if the techs who
answered the phones in heavily accented English hadn't told me to
speak cleary...:O)

BKKSW

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Jeff

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