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On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 09:29:55AM +0100, James Tarling wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Can anyone recommend a good site for laptop reviews? The reviews on
> http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/ all seem to be a year old.


I know it's a bit late in the thread, but I was in the same situation
a few years back and ended up spending about £1600 to get the latop I
wanted. Moon on a stick also. (with Windows XP Pro x64, which is dead
in the water now it seems.)

I think that now, nearly two years on I'm glad I got a near top of the
range laptop. However, reviews aside I realise now that had I spent
less money and upgraded things like hard disk and RAM over a period of
a year instead I could have got away spending a LOT less overall.

Say, nearer £800!

The reviews really suckered me in, and for development I thought I
needed something fancy - but after time, I've learnt the hard way that
frankly I'd rather have the spare £800 left in the bank.

One other thing, though lots of reviewed laptops claim to have
line-in/line-out they often only have that if you buy the appropriate
docking bay. e.g. mine has both, but only if I buy the strange many
pin connector to go on the back for an extra lots of money.

YMMV, that's just my opinion and all... spend less!

        Steve

> Or can anyone recommend or discommend models of laptops?
> - I need something with more memory than I have now (currently 512Mb,
> guessing I need 2 or 4GB)
> - Windows user, but prepared to reconsider
> - Need to run quite a few hungry apps concurrently (Eclipse, Flash,
> Office apps, browsers, music player, maybe Photoshop)
> - looks and weight not important. it can be ugly as sin - it just needs to work
> - decent connectivity (wireless, bluetooth, a 3 or 4 USB, firewire,
> DVI, s-video, line in/out, moon on a stick)
> 
> Any advice, good experiences or horror stories would be much appreciated
> 
> Thanks,
> James
> 
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