Hey guys, I havent posted on here in quite some time due to my passion for computers being overshadowed by other interests. As a result, I have lost touch with the most recent hardware with respects on what is better than what and this is why Im comming to you guys.
My question involves the following: My sister, a freshman in college needs a laptop. Her needs are quite limited, while the focus seems to mainly be budget, and secondly battery life. Oh, and it has to be new. Shes picky like that.
Her needs are limitmed to the extent that she does everything she needs currently on a 1.5ish gig celeron w/ 512 mb of ram, onboard video (I think its 3 yr old onboard Nvidia chip of some sort. likely some variant of a geforce 4) and a 60 gig hard drive. She basically plays sims, dl's music, writes papers, etc.
So this is where the main focus, budget, comes into play. She is lookign for something around say 700ish give or take some. It basically needs to do all the things listed above, with some room to grow for the next 3 yrs of her college life with consideration to her limited expansive computing needs. Also, she obviously will need wireless internet capabilites.
If you could provide me reasons, benchmarks or links (to vendors or evidence) as to what processor (a good combination of low power and value would be the aim) would be the best, any reasons to prefer any OS over another (xp vs vista), any reason to get over a gig of ram, any reason to get anything but crappy video (no shes not watching high-end video or interested in any high-end games), or any other hardware arguments for buying one thing over another, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks a lot,
Marsumane
My question involves the following: My sister, a freshman in college needs a laptop. Her needs are quite limited, while the focus seems to mainly be budget, and secondly battery life. Oh, and it has to be new. Shes picky like that.
Her needs are limitmed to the extent that she does everything she needs currently on a 1.5ish gig celeron w/ 512 mb of ram, onboard video (I think its 3 yr old onboard Nvidia chip of some sort. likely some variant of a geforce 4) and a 60 gig hard drive. She basically plays sims, dl's music, writes papers, etc.
So this is where the main focus, budget, comes into play. She is lookign for something around say 700ish give or take some. It basically needs to do all the things listed above, with some room to grow for the next 3 yrs of her college life with consideration to her limited expansive computing needs. Also, she obviously will need wireless internet capabilites.
If you could provide me reasons, benchmarks or links (to vendors or evidence) as to what processor (a good combination of low power and value would be the aim) would be the best, any reasons to prefer any OS over another (xp vs vista), any reason to get over a gig of ram, any reason to get anything but crappy video (no shes not watching high-end video or interested in any high-end games), or any other hardware arguments for buying one thing over another, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks a lot,
Marsumane