Gosh, that's a lot like asking: "What kind of car would you recommend?" or
"What kind of rifle should I get?"
You have to give us some parameters. The most important factor to know will
be the price. How much do you have in mind as the maximum price?
Next, what do you mean "Laptop for the house"? Is you house able to use a
laptop by itself or does it need help?
Just kidding, who is going to use this notebook? Is this the only system in
the house? Do you have a wireless network in the house? Do you plan to
travel with this notebook? Will you be watching movies on this notebook?
In an ideal world, how long do you think you want to use this notebook?
My notebook is my only personal computer. I use it all the time so I spend
money on it when I buy one, I do not look for the cheapest.
Whilst I travel a great deal, I wanted a 17inch screen. I most usually have
my notebook plugged in, so battery life is not critical.
I know a lot of people who absolutely have to have a small, lightweight
system with a long battery life.
The latest technology now is Intel's Core Duo, essentially twin Pentium M
CPUs, giving great performance and low power consumption. Many high end
notebooks now have twin disk drives providing RAID-0 or the more desirable
RAID-1.
Memory is usually expandable to 2GB and starts at either 512MB or 1GB,
anything less should be shunned regardless of the type of notebook.
Brands to consider: HP/Compaq, Toshiba, Dell, Alienware, Asus. You might
even look at Apple, but I do not believe they offer Core Duo yet.
DVD player and writer, look for DL (Dual Layer).
Wireless B/G minimum, maybe A if you see a need.
Some notebooks are now offering built-in wireless broadband access, is this
something you need/want?
Anyway, that's some food for thought, tell us more and we can be more
focused.
Denys
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Hi Denys & Olav :)
I definitely second Denys comments... I am now in the process of slowly
collecting info and data on selection of a new Laptop for the house as my
HP Pavillion N5190 is not able to realistically support XP of any
flavor... let alone Vista or whatever it is being called today...
So, at the risk of really starting a holy war... other than Macs anyone
want to make recommendations on features I should be looking for? CPU
model? Manufacturer? I must admit that I am a bit biased against HP and
Panasonic... The HP bias is because of the construction of the N5190 didn't
live up to my expectations... so not a hard and fast bias..
So let the "discussion" begin ... hehehe
Art "just being me :) hehehe" Bahrs
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Can the response involve pyrotechnic compounds?
Seriously, a quick search at www.compaq.com shows that the Presario 5248 is
only supported under Windows Me, 98 and 95. There is no mention of Windows
NT, 2000 or XP so I think you do not want to install any of these on this
PC.
The 5248 has a 400MHz AMD-K6 with 64MB of slow RAM for a maximum of 384MB.
This is woefully inadequate for W2K or WXP.
Denys
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PC experts:
I am trying to install either w2k or wxp on a oldish PC Compaq Presario
5248 with AMD.
The reason is that the system just froze when booting up.
The problem is the system will not go past the identify of hardware.
Any suggestions ?
Olav.
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