BREAKING: help LeonOfTheDead's gf picking a new laptop

[LeonOfTheDead]

only cookies at the end, the gf is locked in a hidden location.

As explained in this other thread http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/forum...lti-touch.html her laptop is dead since some days.
It isn't working at all, crushes before of reaching bios' menu, and being 6 years old or even more, no one is crying.

A local shop has a -20% offer on basically all they got, but the list isn't very large. I got some problem calling them (lazy bastards), and managed to have an online shitty lists of the laptops available.

Here is what's in the price we thought:

ACER EX5230-571G16MN-LXEBA0Y07
- Vista home basic (no thanks)
- Celeron 575 2.0 GHz
- Cache L2 ???
- 1 Gb ram
- 160 Gb hdd
- Intel GMA 4500
- 369 € -20%= 295 €


NB HP 550-NA948EA#ABZ
- Vista home basic (no thanks)
- Celeron 550 2.0 GHz
- Cache L2 1 Mb
- 1 Gb ram
- 160 Gb hdd
- Intel GMA X3100
- Basically it's like mine, a bit better. This is already on sale, so no -20% probably. 339 €


Notebook HP 6735S - cod. NX531ES#ABZ
- Vista home basic (no thanks)
- AMD Sempro SI-42 2,1 GHz (no thanks)
- Cache L2 512 kb (not listed)
- 1 Gb ram
- 160 Gb hdd
- ATI Radeon HD 3200 (NOT sure on this, isn't listed on their site)
- 399 € -20%= 320 €


ACER EX5230E-571G16MN LX.ECU0Z
- Vista Business (with XP recovery DVD)
- Celeron 575 ???
- Cache L2 3 Mb (wtf?)
- 1 Gb ram
- 160 Gb hdd
- Intel GMA 4500M
- 439 € -20% = 351 €


NB ACER EX5630Z-342G16MN - LX
- Vista Business (with XP Pro recovery DVD)
- Intel Pentium Dual Core 2,16 GHz (T3400?)
- Cache L2 (1? not listed) Mb
- 2 Gb ram
- 160 Gb hdd
- Intel 4500 (not sure, not listed)
-539 € -20% = 431 €


ACER ASPIRE 5738ZG-424G25MN L
- Vista Home premium
- Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 (?? GHz)
- Cache L2 ??? Mb
- 4 Gb ram
- 320 Gb hdd
- NVIDIA GeForce G105M - 512 MB
- 15.6" TFT 1366 x 768 ( WXGA )
- 619 € -20% = 496 €


NOTEBOOK ACER 5720-4A3G16MI
- Vista Business (with XP Pro recovery CD)
- Intel Core 2 Duo T5270 (?? GHz)
- Cache L2 2 Mb
- 4 Gb ram
- 160 Gb hdd
- Intel GMA X3100
- 628 € -20% = 503 €

Given the price and all, I'm definitely heading for this

ACER ASPIRE 5738ZG-424G25MN L
- Vista Home premium
- Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 (?? GHz)
- Cache L2 ??? Mb
- 4 Gb ram
- 320 Gb hdd
- NVIDIA GeForce G105M - 512 MB
- 15.6" TFT 1366 x 768 ( WXGA )
- 619 € -20% = 496 €

It's a bit more expensive than what we planned, but seems a good deal.

THOUGHT?!
plz halp you fellow member and his lady!

[Zytek_Fan]

This one

ACER ASPIRE 5738ZG-424G25MN L
- Vista Home premium
- Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 (?? GHz)
- Cache L2 ??? Mb
- 4 Gb ram
- 320 Gb hdd
- NVIDIA GeForce G105M - 512 MB
- 15.6" TFT 1366 x 768 ( WXGA )
- 619 € -20% = 496 €


Have you looked at an of Asus' offerings?

[LeonOfTheDead]

This one

ACER ASPIRE 5738ZG-424G25MN L
- Vista Home premium
- Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 (?? GHz)
- Cache L2 ??? Mb
- 4 Gb ram
- 320 Gb hdd
- NVIDIA GeForce G105M - 512 MB
- 15.6" TFT 1366 x 768 ( WXGA )
- 619 € -20% = 496 €


Have you looked at an of Asus' offerings?

yep, that one. No Asus under 600 € before the -20%.
We were considering only under 500 € laptops, but this seems to be worth the additional money.

[Rasmus]

Business laptop > consumer laptop. Much better durability; no flopping hinges, no dust sucking fans, no squeaky plastics, etc.

[Rockefella]

yep, that one. No Asus under 600 € before the -20%.
We were considering only under 500 € laptops, but this seems to be worth the additional money.

What Zytek said about the laptop choice and you'll thank yourself later by spending an extra 50-100 up front. You're better off buying a more powerful machine than saving some money and upgrading in the future I think.

[fisetdavid26]

The one you highlighted is definitely the best one, however I'd like to know what's the speed of the hard disks, as 7200 RPM is a helluva lot faster than 5400 rpm.

And the buffer (or cache if you will) size.

[Zytek_Fan]

The one you highlighted is definitely the best one, however I'd like to know what's the speed of the hard disks, as 7200 RPM is a helluva lot faster than 5400 rpm.

And the buffer (or cache if you will) size.

It's probably 5400 rpm with 16mb of cache.

[LeonOfTheDead]

there isn't an Asus near the 600 mark.
here is the full list: CoopES

About the 320 Gb HDD, there isn't nothing about speed and buffer in Acer's site

[faksta]

I'm not quite competent in computers, but we have an HP laptop and I'm quite satisfied with it.

[LeonOfTheDead]

So that's it, the Acer5738 seems the winner.
I'll check if some of you have a better option tomorrow in the morning before of going to university, then I'll leave directly for the shop.
I'll let you know how it will end.

[Roentgen]

Specs of the one you chose is so much higher than others, so no question for me.

[pimento]

Word of warning, I dealt with a lot of Acers in my time as a basic PC tech that had weird niggling faults that wouldn't go away no matter what I did and Acer would never take as a warrantable fault. I know I'm not alone in stating that I will never buy an Acer PC, especially a low end one.

[LeonOfTheDead]

Word of warning, I dealt with a lot of Acers in my time as a basic PC tech that had weird niggling faults that wouldn't go away no matter what I did and Acer would never take as a warrantable fault. I know I'm not alone in stating that I will never buy an Acer PC, especially a low end one.

thanks for the tip, I had some problems with an HP, but a good experience with HP support service.
I'll see what they have.
That Acer still is my favorite, as Roentgen said, the specs are much higher than the others despite a still low price.

[Dary]

I was gonna say, why not Macbook? but too bad, u have a low budget. How about a refurbished one? its really worth it, and the upcoming OS (Snow Leopard) will make it even better.

[LeonOfTheDead]

So here it is, an ACER Aspire 5536G-824G32Mn
- Win Vista Biz
- AMD Turion X2 ultra dual core 2,2 GHz, 2 Mb L2 Cache
- 4 Gb Ram
- 320 Hdd
- ATI Radeon 4570 512 Mb Ram
- 15,6" monitor (don't know if UWXGA or WXGA)
for 600 -20%= 479 €!

Quite happy at the moment, I'm removing all the OEM stuff.
Just wondering, what about McAfee?
Should I keep it or remove it?