Miscellaneous laptop discussions : Want to buy right laptop
Want to buy right laptop
by ahmed_munir - 9/7/09 9:40 PMHi all,
I want to buy a laptop which is good in performance and easy to upgrade and must be economical. My needs are listed below;
1) Want to use at least 2 OS i.e. Windows and Linux
2) Can run at least 3 Virtual Machines as for research and development and education purposes.
Kindly advice me.
Tell more about this upgrade.
by R. Proffitt
- 9/8/09 3:31 AM
In reply to: Want to buy right laptop by ahmed_munir
Most laptops are arriving with no upgrade possible for say the video card. Would you be willing to pay say about double so you can pay about 500 for a video card later?
Tell more.
1) Want to use at least 2 OS i.e. Windows and Linux
2) Can run at least 3 Virtual Machines as for research and development and education purposes.
Item 1 is not a tall order. Let's say all current laptops do that.
Item 2 is something I've done on a 600 buck laptop. Again it appears to be nothing special.
Bob
Buying right laptop
by ahmed_munir - 9/8/09 9:56 PM In reply to: Tell more about this upgrade. by R. Proffitt
Thanks all for replying. I can not make up my mind which laptop shall i choose, i.e. Dell XPS studio, lenovo w series or HP pavilion. Which brand is better in performance and also which brand's accessories are economical?
Kindly advice me which laptop shall i choose?
Regards,
Ahmed Munir
Let's examine your new questions.
by R. Proffitt - 9/9/09 3:17 AM
In reply to: Buying right laptop by ahmed_munir
1. Dell XPS studio, lenovo w series or HP pavilion. Which brand is better in performance
I can see the confusion. Brands do not dictate performance. I can get a quad core from one maker and a celeron from another and then find out that both makers offer machines with both CPUs and the performance winner is now unclear. Try this. Pick a dollar amount you are going to spend and be sure to include that 2 or more year warranty.
2. and also which brand's accessories are economical?
Now this you can answer yourself. My answer is I rarely buy any maker's accessories because the laptop came ready and complete. Yes I did pick up a new laptop bad and a Logitech V450 Nano mouse but no accessory from those brands.
Bob
Want to buy right laptop
by ahmed_munir - 9/8/09 10:02 PM In reply to: Tell more about this upgrade. by R. Proffitt
Thanks for replying. I can't make up my mind for choosing right laptop regarding in better performance i.e. Dell XPS Studio, Lenovo W series or HP Pavillion.Also kindly advice me as well which brands as I mentioned accessories are economical.
Regards,
Ahmed Munir
You could multi-boot easy on most pc but you
by orlbuckeye - 9/8/09 5:23 AM In reply to: Want to buy right laptop by ahmed_munirmost likely would have to do it yourself. Most laptop come with a partitioned drive or multiple drives with one drive setup up to restore to factory defaults. I have a HP pavilion DV7 that came with a 500 gig HD and an open slot for a second. I have the choice of adding a partition or adding a drive to install a different OS. I do have Windows 7 running in a MS Virtual PC 2007. I read where people have bought the laptop I have and removed the 5400 RPM drive and replaced it with 2 7200 RPM drives and just love it. Most newer pc will allow virtual machines but the problem with that is sound doesn't work after install and graphic is lower resoluion then your physical OS.
what are you trying to accomplish?
by sillyhermitcrab - 9/16/09 10:47 AM In reply to: Want to buy right laptop by ahmed_munirthose two criteria are easy to meet even on a $400 setup.the big question is how much power do you want on it?if you arent going to do even any medium level gaming on it then you have more options open to you than you realize.i like Toshiba and AMD,Toshiba because i feel they build systems proper and use components that arent "bargain components" or cheap (crappy) components,and AMD because they tend to play better with the components.plus Intel has made some decisions that seem to indicate they're trying to push theyre integrated graphics accelerator more than support with video cards,which pissed NVidia off something awful.
now that i have diverged,i'll get back on track and say you need to decide what capability you want out of your system-entertainment,or just based on what youre two criteria are,work and learning?if its the latter,decently equipped systems are easy to come by for reasonably cheap.
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