What is the best laptop for students?

[bballchica23]

What is the best laptop you can buy for high school and college that is under $1000?

[joshSCH]

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread80793.html

Heres my dell specs:

1 223-0456 Inspiron E1505N, Intel Core 2 Duo processor T5600 (2MB/1.83GHz/667MHz)
1 320-5155 15.4 Inch UltraSharp TrueLife Wide-screen WXGA+ for Inspiron6400/E1505
1 311-7354 1GB, DDR2, 667MHz 2 Dimm for Inspiron 6400/E1505
1 320-5634 256MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 TurboCache, for Inspiron E1505N
1 341-3316 120GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive for Inspiron 6400/E1505
1 420-7153 Ubuntu Edition version 7.04
1 313-3959 8X DVD+/-RW Drive for Inspiron 6400/E1505
1 313-4217 Integrated High Definition Audio, Inspiron
1 430-1918 Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 802.11a/g Mini Card (54Mbps) for Inspiron 6400/E1505
1 312-0403 85 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery, for Inspiron 6400/E1505
1 312-0405 85 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Additional Battery, for Inspiron 6400/E1505
1 950-3337 1 Year Limited Warranty
1 950-9057 No Warranty, Year 2 and 3
1 985-3578 Dell Hardware Warranty Plus Return To Depot, Initial Year
1 980-2860 Type 12- Mail-InService, 24x7 TechnicalSupport, Initial Year
1 960-2780 Warranty Support,Initial Year
1 310-8314 Intel Centrino Core Duo Processor

All for $943.93

I bought the 512MB ram b/c it was the smallest possible that you could buy from dell.. it would cost another $275 for 2 gigs of ram.. which I can easily buy off newegg for $75.

Hope this helps some.

[jbennet]

Yeah dell, cheap, cheerful and fairly sturdy

acer, hp or toshiba otherwise

[joshSCH]

hmm.. I think dell and hp are prolly both really competitive in the laptop industry.. 2 of the best, no doubt.. although, I have heard many bad things related to HP laptops (break more frequently, customer support terrible, not as good as dell) which is why I went with the dell.. but, it really just comes down to personal preference, and what you want your laptop optimized for.

[jbennet]

Yeah, you need 2gb ram to use vista properley. Dont ever buy a vista laptop with 512 or 1gb.

[joshSCH]

Unless your planning to buy the ram cheaper from newegg :)

[scudzilla]

For a student.. Those laptops with cheap graphics so gaming will be limited. lolz

[Duki]

i prefer dell over all vendors. Noone can touch their support or MS prices. They're the #1 Microsoft reseller in the world... you won't find a better price than dell if it's made by microsoft.

[joshSCH]

Yea.. and I'm sure ALL of you would buy dell over hp if you got a $500 discount..

[jbennet]

one of these days MS should start making PCs

[joshSCH]

haha.. they'd surely be taken down by the dems for monopolizing the industry :(

[jbennet]

i wonder why the big companies dont to that if they have so much money

i mea, how cool would it be if microsoft baught apple and Dell and IBM baught sun and HP

[joshSCH]

Anti-trust legislation.. AT&T has been busted, Microsoft has been busted.. Apple is being sued over it.

[Duki]

Yea.. and I'm sure ALL of you would buy dell over hp if you got a $500 discount..

:P

I've heard rumors of a MS computer... you pay for it monthly or something. It will be used in public places where people can come up to the computer and pay a fee for an allotted amount of time; if i remember correctly.