right folks, got the go ahead for a new laptop 4 me,

got a spend of around 2k,

needs big screen
fast fast fast
40gig hdd
dvd/burner combi ?
good graphics with video capture like my old one ATI inside

battery life reasonable

any ideas

jase

 

we got one of the New toshiba sat pro 6000 as it has a really good video card (for playing movies via projectors etc etc) found it very powerfull but lite at same time..

Stay away fron Sonys - product is cool but support is pants

 

Toshiba Satellite 5100 series has geforce4 and firewire. Costs about 2k

 

Dell have some gooduns

 

Mine is a Dell Inspiron 8200

1.6GHz P4, 15" screen (1600x1200), DVD & CDRW, 40GB hard drive, 512MB RAM...

Cost me £1400+VAT thru their factory outlet. See www.dell.co.uk

 

ignore this..

[Edited by Hos - 7/27/2002 7:05:49 AM]

 

Dell Inspiron 8100 for me. Be warned though it is a brick to carry around.

 

My attempt at a general summary,

Sony - Look wicked, expensive, not the best performance, don't know about the support, lightweight.

Dell - Good value for money, not great looking, bulky & heavy, £2k will buy you the most performance compared to Sony and Tosh. Support is good.

Toshiba - Nokia/BMW 3 series of laptops... not the cheapest but excellent build quality & good product support. good performance.

Having borrowed a Sony, use a Toshiba laptop for work and used to own a Dell..... Tosh would be my pick. My Dell cost me about £2k and was seriously powerful machine (for a laptop) but you can't chuck them about like you can Toshibas (I found out the hard way...but also discovered Dell warranty support was v.good ). Didn't like the Sony at all.

all IMHO......... H

 

dont forget about ibm thinkpad as well. international warranty and support was amazing! got a dead LCD screen and was replace under the 3-years warranty while i was away in the far east. very robust and well made.