Need a Laptop

[SVB]

Need a new laptop, can spend up to £1700 or so ($3220).
Been looking at all sorts of Sonys and Toshibas, Pentium M processors etc.
Want at least 512MB RAM, 60 or 80GB harddrive minimum, DVD player, TV tuner highly desired, decent graphics card, decent screen size.
Any recommendations?
Some shop today gave me a print out of a Toshiba G10-133 which looks ok

[Pimpen 2010]

If you want to spend that much, why not get something custom like an Alienware or a laptop from Hypersonic PC's

[SVB]

I havent really thought about it, my mum just came into my room about half an hour ago saying to look at laptops up to £1700...Been looking at various ones over last week and now have to choose

[Pimpen 2010]

http://www.alienware.com/product_det...de=SKU-EXTREME

[Pimpen 2010]

http://www.hypersonic-pc.com/2001/systems-mobile.htm

[SVB]

Priced an Alienware 7700, works out cheaper than that Toshiba, at only £1,477.55

Case: Area-51m 7700 Case with 17" WideXGA+ 1400 x 900 LCD Display - Xeno Grey
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition UK with SP2 - English
Motherboard: Intel® 915P Chipset Supporting PCI-Express
Processor: Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 530J w/ HT Technology 3.0GHz 1MB Cache
Memory: 512MB Dual Channel DDR2 PC-4200 533MHz - 2x256MB
Video Card: Area-51m 7700 NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 6800 with 256MB of DDR3 memory
Hard Drive: Single Drive Configuration - 40GB 5400 RPM ATA100
Optical Drive One: 24x10x24 CD-RW / 8x DVD Combo w/Software
Floppy Drive: USB Floppy Drive
Sound Card: Intel® High-Definition Audio (24-bit, 192Khz) with 7.1 surround sound
Modem: 56K Modem with V.92 Technology
Ethernet NIC: Integrated 10/1000Mb Gigabit Ethernet NIC
Keypad: M

Thats the basic one, will have to increase harddrive and stuff and see how much it comes too...

[gorillaboy]

[SVB]

See in the Alienware, it says " Video-IN & OUT ports (TV tuner required)"
What type of tv tuner is needed? Cause i need one to watch tv, im not paying some tv license to watch my tv at uni, ill use the laptop instead. Ive seen these big box things that go into the USB port, but what one goes into the video in/out ports?

[TranceSpeeder]

Processor: Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 530J w/ HT Technology 3.0GHz 1MB Cache

wont this thing run a little hot?

[SVB]

It weighs 15lbs cause of fans and stuff, lol

[TranceSpeeder]

Intel® Pentium® M Processor 770 (2.13GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB

i dig that cpu...

[TranceSpeeder]

http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTE...ters_FS_Series

those sonys are very nice... customize one and see how much it is.

[TranceSpeeder]

VGN-FS500

Price as configured:

$2098.98

for what u were looking for with that powerful cpu.

[Pimpen 2010]

For $3434 you get:

- Area-51m 7700 Case with 17" WideSXGA+ 1680 x 1050 LCD Display with Built-in Camera - Xeno Grey - Includes Clearview Enhanced Display Technology
- Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 570J w/ HT Technology 3.8GHz 800MHz FSB 1MB Cache
- 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 533MHz - 2 x 512MB
- Area-51m 7700 ATI MOBILITY™ RADEON X800 with 256MB of DDR 3 memory - $100 Instant Rebate!
- Intel® High-Definition Audio (24-bit, 192Khz) with 7.1 surround sound - Plug in your Digital speakers directly to the System!
- Extreme Performance - RAID 0 - Recommended
- 120GB (60GB x 2) 7200 RPM ATA100 - Hitachi - Fastest Mobile Performance!
- 8X Dual Layer DVD+/-RW / 24X CD-RW Combo w/Software
- Alienware® Premium Backpack XL -Free !

It's really a $4000+ system but they have a $500 off.

If you decide to get an Alienware, tell me. I'm an affiliate of them.

[SVB]

I need a tv tuner

[Pimpen 2010]

TV tuners are like $50 from a local computer store...

Or do you want one built in?

[TranceSpeeder]

dont buy that crap, use the money on amazing specs like 2 gigs of ram.

[SVB]

Built in. That Toshiba has one built in

[gorillaboy]

Every person I know w/ a VAIO has had big problems.