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Can anyone here suggest a good laptop?

Right now im looking at something under $1400. I Need a fairly modern one.. good processor, good amount of memory, dedicated video ram would be great instead of shared... screen size around 15" with decent battery life. another thing i'd need is a cd/dvd burner.. any ideas? :P

if you got 1400 to spend look in to a vaio. there pentium m are underrated. you can find them at office depot with a gig of ram, 17" widescreen and a patented xbrite screen. best screen on the market imo.

i don't want a 17" widescreen... if i was going that route i'd just build a desktop pc and save $600.

ok what are you gonna be doing with your laptop. is it for personal or business use? just don't buy a dell. toshiba, sony, hp, and the new gateways are the only models i would suggest. sony are the better for speed, toshiba will last the longest, and hp are very user friendly with troubleshooting. gateway is just starting to come back into the ranks now that they bought emachines.

personally, i would get one of the the athlon 64's! they f'in rock!!!!! no joke, they blow away everything else imo

edit: jlman mentioned some brands above, look at the toshiba's screen compared to the others..i think you will find that it is way better. although there are some other companies with some new "technologies" available as far as the screen goes.

yeah, amds are great gaming processors. they run extremely smooth, if you buy one from a store already built sometimes its hard to find athlon 64, and pentium 4's, both intel and amd have started putting "mobile" processors in laptops. they will have longer battery life than p4s and amd 64s. even if you did get on of those processors, off the charger they will down clock and only run at the speed of a mobile processor.

true, but you have the option of a blazing fast comp when it is plugged up to a charger.

thats why i asked him what are his plans for it. if he is gonna use it as a desktop replacement, get a 64 or a p4. if he plans on having for the designed purpose be a mobile computer, i would personally suggest a pentium mobile w/ centrino technology. a toshiba satellite, they are started to make dual laptop processors. great for a business/video purpose.

thats just imo of course, i like the idea of being able to hook it to a charger and kick some ass when necessary. with a power converter you could do that in your car as well

When I get my laptop after graduation I'm getting an Apple. I'm getting so fed up with Microsoft and Spyware and Viruses and such it will be nice not to worry about it with Apple. Only downside is they are hella expensive (those new Intel ones). And of course a lot of people hate Apple, as I did a couple years ago.