In the Market for a Notebook
Mar 11 2006 Sat
10:20 pm PHT
I’m going to buy a notebook/laptop by the end of this month and I would like to solicit suggestions on what are the nice mobile computers out there. I’ve never owned a laptop before and so I don’t consider myself informed about the possible choices.
I really don’t need a top-of-the-line beast since this is going to be a strictly auxilliary PC for use during long vacations, business trips, and the like. Something in the 30,000 to 45,000 peso range would do. Some needed features:
Ethernet LAN
Wifi (802.11 b/g)
Bundled Windows XP Home (I’m still debating this)
256+ MB RAM
40+ GB hard drive
Modem
Combo optical drive
USB, Parallel, PS/2 ports, and the little things like that are a given. I don’t know much about which are the nice processors so I’ll leave it to you guys.
Some of the models that seem to fit the bill are:
So what models/brands would you recommend? 
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On 11:48 a.m., 15 Mar 2006, ramil wrote:
i’m not familiar with these brands, but you might want to check how serviceable each laptop is.
remember my crashed hdd? vaio laptops have their hard drives hidden under a part of the motherboard…it was hard, very hard to replace.
my ofcmate’s hp laptop, otoh, just pops out his harddrive from some compartment.
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On 10:32 a.m., 20 Mar 2006, joyce wrote:
ibook g4! secondhand! i have one, it has all of those plus built in bluetooth (i love this feature) USB and Firewire ports too. processor 1.33Ghz, 512 MB for additional info. plus it already has Tiger as the OS. i had to put my 2 cents in as a mac user
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