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04-18-2006, 10:47 PM
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#16 | | Member
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| Is having a laptop that important? I play computer games...so it's better for me to get a desktop? | 
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04-18-2006, 11:08 PM
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#17 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Rockville MD, San Diego CA
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| Good: IBM, Fujitsu, Apple, Dell Latitude, Toshiba, Sony's mid/high end
Questionable: Dell Inspiron, Compaq, HP, Sony's low end
Terrible: Avaratec
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Most gamers have desktops. You may want a laptop after 2 years when you start to commute from off campus, but aside from that...  | |
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04-18-2006, 11:32 PM
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#18 | | Member
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| Can a $1200~1500 laptop be able to play games like GW or CS? | |
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04-19-2006, 01:12 AM
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#19 | | New Member
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| OmgItsCollege,
Definitely. That kind of budget will get you a pretty decent gaming laptop. Maybe configuring a Dell Latitude D820 or E1505 would get you a nice gaming rig.
Guild Wars and Counterstrike definitely aren't graphics intensive games, unless you're talking about CS: Source. Then you would need a bit more money than $1500 to play CS: Source at decent settings.
Karthikkito is right though, most gamers do have desktops, which is why i'm bringing my desktop to the dorm as well as my laptop. | |
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06-27-2006, 06:47 PM
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#20 | | Junior Member
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| I've decided to get a Dell, but I dont know which one. I'm not really a gamer and want a laptop that does its purpose quickly and efficiently. Im thinking of either an E1405 or E1505...or would you recommend a Latitude? | |
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06-27-2006, 06:59 PM
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#21 | | Member
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA
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| @ OMGITSCOLLEGE
im getting a hp laptop with 2 gigs of ram and good stuff for 1200 lol | |
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06-27-2006, 07:24 PM
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#22 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Bay Area, CA
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| My dad said very uncategorically that Dell and IBM were going to be the best laptops for me to get for college. I trust his opinion a lot, since he's a really hardcore computer engineer and loves his job and reads a ton of books and in general is, simply put, quite the technology nerd. His opinion is based both on performance and on value. I ended up getting a Dell Latitude D610, which I'm extremely happy with. After my customizations, it ended up costing around $2000. I suggest getting a dock for your laptop so that setting up your workstation is a lot easier and more convenient, and it's much less hassle to detach your laptop from printer, scanner, monitor, etc. when you want to take it to class and such. | |
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06-27-2006, 07:36 PM
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#23 | | Junior Member
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| What advantage does a latitude have over a Inspiron E-series? | |
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06-27-2006, 08:28 PM
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#24 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Bay Area
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| Just a quick question, do you think the UCSD Administration would really crack down on us if we download music using their internet services??
Because that would really suck... | |
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06-28-2006, 01:40 AM
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#25 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: San Diego
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| No.. at orientation they said you get 1 warning, 1 stern warning, and on the 3rd time you get resnet taken away..
Just don't be stupid.. don't use limewire, etc. It's all about sharing external hard drives with people as well as encrypted bittorrent. You'll be all good.
Anyways, as for laptops, I just picked up a Macbook Pro, and I must say, WOW. I have WinXP loaded up on an 8gig partition with bootcamp (you know, for those times you just need a windows program). I love it! The physical design is top notch, too.. so much thinner than my bro's HP.. not that I dislke HP lappy's - they have good customer service... hell yeah for MBP's! | |
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06-29-2006, 01:56 AM
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#26 | | Member
Join Date: May 2006 Location: sj, bay area, ca.
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| i got an HP with EXCELLENT specs for 1100.
if you don't have a big music/video/photo library any basic laptop will do for college. you just need the basic word processing and internet. | |
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06-29-2006, 03:32 AM
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#27 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: San Diego
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| ..And be sure to get an eduacational discount! I bought my comp from the UCSD bookstore.. got a couple hundred off plus a free iPod. | |
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06-29-2006, 03:42 PM
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#28 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Bay Area
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| wait the ipod was part of the promotion or what? is it like a spend over $700 and u get a free ipod?? | |
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06-29-2006, 11:54 PM
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#29 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
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| Hey, I've seen websites which are offering Dell laptops and Lenovo thinkpads at great prices in the $670-690 range.One of them is:
Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad R51e Notebook, Pentium® M 1.60GHz, 15" XGA, 512MB, 40GB, CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo, XP Professional, 802.11b/g WLAN (Model# 1844EUU) » only $699.00 + Free Shipping
Well,I'm comming from abroad so I really dont know if this would be a good way to buy my laptop in the U.S..Could anybody provide any info on such deals?(The shipment is directly from the company though).Thanks. | |
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06-30-2006, 06:42 PM
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#30 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2006 Location: San Diego area
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| cool:
If you're purchasing directly from the company (i.e. Lenovo's website), you should be okay to purchase online (I just did this with a Dell) but you should first check out the deals available through the bookstore since they sometimes offer discounts on various manufacturers' PCs that can't be had elsewhere. Also, software is generally way cheaper through the bookstore with the educational discounts. | |
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