My old laptop is showing age with a bad screen. I'm looking for a new laptop. After researching a little bit, I would like to buy a system with specs like the one below:
Pentium Duo 2 Core T2250 (1.73GHz) minimum would be nice iif T5600
(1.83GHz) or T7200 (2GBHz)
A separate video card instead of using system memory
15" monitor is fine, 17" ok too
1GB of DDR 2 memory
120GB of HD
Firewire preferred
Wireless and other standard feature
With that in mind, which model would you recommend?
Also, a few questions on laptops:
Can you upgrade the processor later when you buy a slower CPU today (eg. 1.6GHz now but upgrade to 2 GHz a few years later)?
Is it cheaper to get full memory (2GB) from the vender or it's usually cheaper to upgrade yourself? Can you mix 2 different RAM modules? I think most would put 2 512MB of memory for 1GB of RAM. If I buy a 1 GB memory myself it would be one 1GB and another 512MB. Is that OK?
Thanks for the advice,
cliu
Pentium Duo 2 Core T2250 (1.73GHz) minimum would be nice iif T5600
(1.83GHz) or T7200 (2GBHz)
A separate video card instead of using system memory
15" monitor is fine, 17" ok too
1GB of DDR 2 memory
120GB of HD
Firewire preferred
Wireless and other standard feature
With that in mind, which model would you recommend?
Also, a few questions on laptops:
Can you upgrade the processor later when you buy a slower CPU today (eg. 1.6GHz now but upgrade to 2 GHz a few years later)?
Is it cheaper to get full memory (2GB) from the vender or it's usually cheaper to upgrade yourself? Can you mix 2 different RAM modules? I think most would put 2 512MB of memory for 1GB of RAM. If I buy a 1 GB memory myself it would be one 1GB and another 512MB. Is that OK?
Thanks for the advice,
cliu