Buying a Laptop

[leigh mills]

Hi,

I need some help with buying a laptop,I have looked at the recommended laptop systems which is:

Dell Precision Mobile Workstation M6300, or
HP Compaq 8710w Mobile Workstation
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T7700
Windows XP Professional
2 GB, DDR2-667 SDRAM Memory
80GB Hard Drive (7200RPM)
NVIDIA® Quadro FX 1600M OpenGL Graphics Adapter
Integrated Ethernet
24X max/10X min CD-ROM Drive
Two-button mouse w/Scroll
Broadband Internet Access
Microsoft Office Basic Edition (Word, Excel, Outlook

This was last updated in 2007, so things have now changed. So is anyone able to give me an up to date version? This is because on the site it displays that ecabinet systems isnt compatible with Vista. This is also a problem now when buying a laptop as they are all installed with vista.

Could someone please help me out, I guess the requirments are still the same so I need a work round for Vista, and if there are any other comments that people can give to me before I buy I will be very greatful.

Thanks,

Leigh Mills

[Nick M Singer]

Leigh I highly recommend the DELL Precision M90 with a quadro fx3500. I note that there are still some on eBay with win XP

[leigh mills]

Hi Nick,

Thanks for the reply.

This is a very pricey laptop, I am looking to spend between 400 - 600 pounds, 600 max really. Are you able to give any more recommendations? Do I definitely have to have XP, can I not get Vista and download some compatibility software?

Thanks,

Leigh Mills

[Glenn Warner]

Try the dell outlet. I just checked and there are 118 precision workstations with win xp pro. I have an M90 from the outlet and couldn't be happier with it. Amazing, though, how much prices have dropped in just one year.

[leigh mills]

Hi just took a look at the outlook and could only seem to find an M70 and M20. Is there any chance you could paste the Link

Thanks

[Nick M Singer]

They seem to be in the range of $350 to $550 on eBay very cheap. I bought mine last year through Dell SA and coughed R26000.00... $500.00 is only about R4000.00 so it really stings to see how much they cost now.

[Gary Puckett]

When do you think this vista problem will be fixed, or will it ?

Gary

[leigh mills]

surely there must be other lap tops that people use? Is it an absolute no no to Vista?

[Jean G Voyer]

Leigh,

It's not but it's highly recommended by Thermwood.

[leigh mills]

So is the Dell M90 and Dell M4300 the only laptops that people recommend?

[Glenn Warner]

Here is a link with 23 M90's with WinXP
http://outlet.us.dell.com/ARBOnlineSale ... l=en&s=dfb

Sorry you'll have to enter the filter criteria - model and operating system to narrow it down.

[Nick M Singer]

Leigh I dont think it is critical that it is a Dell per se, what is important is to get the right processor, amount of RAM and a workstation class graphics card. There are others that meet these criterion but they are all pricey puppies.

[Robin Thompson]

I must be missing something
I am running 5.2 on an HP Pavilion dv6000 as it came from the box. AMD64 Athlon X2, NVIDIA graphics with Vista.
I had no problem installing ecabs and everthing seems to run fine.
Robin

[Lamar Horton]

We just bought a Toshiba Satellite L350. Vista home premium, 3 gig ram Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 with 8MB to 256MB shared memory (dynamically allocated)

http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/1 ... Processor/

It does OK, on larger stuff it slows down but still work.

Ask again in a few months after we have had a chance to really use it.