Is this a good price on laptop?

[mgordon99]

Thinking about getting this:

Compaq Presario 1600

Intel® Celeron® Processor - 500 MHz
96 MB SyncDRAM
12.0GB UltraDMA Hard Drive
24X CD-ROM
14.1" XGA TFT Active Matrix
Microsoft Office 2000 SBE Bundled CD
56K ITU V.90 Modem PCI
Trident CyberBlade hardware-accelerated 3D graphics with 8 MB video memory
AC Adapter Included
High-Capacity Lithium Ion Battery
JBL Pro Audio System with Bass Reflex
3.5" 1.44 MB diskette drive
Microsoft Windows98 (second edition)
1yr Parts / 1 yr labor/1yr mail-in/ 1yr carry-in

$2,078.00

Xircom 10/100 Ready Ethernet Card

$119.00

Compaq Value Case - By Targus

$39.00

Presario 1800/1600 XL QuikDock

$159.00

Tripp Lite Super Notebook Protector

$15.00

Subtotal: $2,410.00

[oxOGradiusOxo]

my only comment would be NEVER pay $2500 for a laptop with those stats unless ABSOULTELY nessesary. With $2500 go check out www.alienware-pc.com (http://www.alienware-pc.com) and build yourself a POWERHOUSE desktop PC with a good sized monitor.

but of course, if you need the laptop, you need the laptop. I just would spend less and get a mid-ranged one because those will run all your buisness/e-mail/word processing apps just fine without the heavy price tag.

[SoopaStar]

I would price dell laptops first. i have had three compaq laptops and I hate them all.

Goto www.pricescan.com (http://www.pricescan.com) to get a good price on almost any name-brand.

Paul

[Inferior]

That sounds pretty good to me..... What currency?

[Mntsnow]

I would have to say stay away from the Dell laptops. They are no where near a good as their desktop systems. The company I work for are pretty much a Dell computer shop! All of our current desktops are dell systems and they went with dell for the laptops and no one likes them after a month or so. Way to many problems. We have some Compaq's and Toshiba's still in the corral and they are running almost like new (although a bit slower as they are older systems like P2 266 is the fastest of that bunch)

Mntsnow

[jl123]

Hey Mntsnow isn't there a big disscussion on Dell laptops? Yeah i think there is. I'll try to find it.

~Joel(jl123)

[jl123]

Alrighty i found it. Disscussion about good notebook brands and Dell>>>>>

http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/006778.html

~Joel(jl123)

[Dputiger]

I agree with Gradius. With a Notebook, don't buy fancy features if you don't need them. If all your doing is some word processing, some web surfing, and a little email/general application stuff..well, I recommend you buy more like a PII 300, drop 64 Meg of RAM in it, and use that.
I've got a K6-2 380 with 64 Meg of RAM that I bought 18 months ago--it'll do everything fine. Just drop a little more RAM into your system and you won't have a problem--but don't pay top dollar for stuff you don't need--unless you really need it.

Also, the Thinkpad is an excellent brand and Gateway's aren't bad either. I haven't had much luck with Micron, but I don't know if that's just my bad luck or indicative of something more.

[wyvrn]

My vote for the Thinkpad too. Darn nice notebooks and sturdy design too. My Compaq is a nice little machine untill it has problems, and then you have to drag out the crappy restore cd.