Laptop

[Nixy]

I am going to be buying a laptop within the next couple of months. I was just wondering if anybody had any suggestions as to specific components I should looks for or steer away from?

 

[systembuilder]

What do you want your laptop to do? is it for fun or work?

 

[Nixy]

School next year. I'm not into gaming or anything like that (except the SIMS). I need something to run XP on, atleast a 14" screen and it has to be faster than my current computer (Celeron 400 w/ 192 mB RAM). I am hopefully looking for about a 1.6GHz processor.

 

[Justintime]

The only 1.6GHz laptops are Pentium 4 models, which i suggest you stay far from, they are dogs at that speed, look into an Athlon/Duron mobile or Pentium III powered machine if you want decent horsepower.

 

[Huge]

What Justin said; I own a IBM Thinkpad P3-700 and for business apps and anything but 3d games, it runs fine.

Try to get as big a hard disk and ram as you can afford.