best laptop?

[athlonfan]

Who makes the best laptops (a company that offers the Geforece 2 Go w/32mb or higher preferably)? Also, what is better the Athlon 4 or the P3?
Thanks

[preludexl]

the athlon is more bang for the buck. i'd never go for intel. i have a p3 but i still like my old k6-2 500 a lot. i really dont notice the speed increase for my applications. of course i ahve 256 megs of ram so it doesnt really matter much for the things i do with it. i have a compaq 1800T and it's a nice little bugger. havent had any problems with it. got a nice big 15inch xga, jbl bass speakers. dvd, tv out. etc.

[preludexl]

oh yeah cnet has a place for laptops where u can see side by side comparisons as well as reader opinions.

[Yar1182]

You need to decide what form factor you want your laptop in. Either your going to get a utralight or an all in one.

The utralight are great for traveling and have great battery life. On the downside you have to work with a really small screen and often have to settle for a underpowered processor. If you need a CD-ROM or floppy drive, etc., you won't be saving a lot of weight. you end up lugging around the external counterparts anyway.

The all in ones are several pounds heavier, but you get a great screen, and full size keyboard. There usually is an AC outlet available somewhere so shorter battery life is usually not a major problem.

For the all in one's the Dell Inspiron 8000 is hard to beat. It has the highest resolution screen with the best components. Including the GeForce Go video card. Dell also has great customer support and warrantee. This is something to consider when buying a laptop because your really can't work on them yourself.

For ultralights the Toshiba protege is really nice. I do not believe it has a GeForce card though. If you want GeForce you need an all in one.

As far as the AMD mobile athlon I haven't seen benchmarks yet. The mobile P3's are solid and have pretty much ruled the market. I'm interested in how the mobile athlon handles heat. In a laptop environment if it's like it's desktop counterpart you'll burn your lap and fingers. There is a lot of pro AMD settlement and I really do wish them luck. Us laptop owners want to see an arms race/price war too.

[SimonTemplar]

Can you hold off for a month or so. Wait for the Tulatin P-III 's from Dell. From what I understand they will be the first (No Suprise) with this chip in the laptop setting. Anyhow, then you can get the 512 cache with the 32 geforce and everything else you want. I have an IBM T-22 and it's oK for business use, but sux for games and multimedia. Definetly DELL. And I'm not a hack for Dell, I think there desktops are overpriced, but there laptops are best bang for the buck. I built my desktop Athlon 1.2 266, Asus A7A 266, 256 Mushkin high pro 2100 DDR, Radeon 64DDR, (Voodoo 5 6000 eng mod b2 when I want glide)My suggestion buy after July 15th when the Tulatins are availabe. Best Regards _ Simon

[Yar1182]

Also if you purchase though the enployee purchase program you get 10% off the total and 50% off shipping. The best part is your given a special customer support phone number that corperations and IT people use. The techs are more knollegable and you don't get put on hold for eternity.

I'd don't think they really check so you can claim to work for cough UPS cough.