Need help choosing a laptop

[Riley]

Hey, I need help with looking for a new laptop for use at school next year (doing a computing A-Level course, which is good excuse to get one ) I have bought the latest edition of whatlaptop and haven't had much luck with finding anything suitable.

The budget is around £1000 bit more if it can be justified. Needs to be fairly lightweight 2.5 - 3kg is fine, screen size isn't that important. Will be used for word processing and office stuff mostly, maybe the odd game so I would like a reasonable GFX card aswell. Wireless LAN would be good to as the school has one. The Centrinos any good?

Thanks for you help in advance,

Chris

[Riley]

bump... :S

[Jonny M]

Centrino based laptops are very good, but you'd be hard pressed to find one for a grand.

[XiXora]

toshiba tecra s1 found under a grand i think.

[shiato storm]

good deals at Dell at the mo... extra memory.
am using one right now very nice...

[Riley]

Looking at The Multivision Nexus 8010
Works out at about £1250 with Win XP Pro

Weighs 2.6kg
1.5 Pentium M
512 Ram
60gb HD
Radeon 9000 Mobility GFX
15inch 1400x1050 Screen

http://www.multivision.co.uk/showdet.php?id=161

[DR]

IBM X31 or a VoodooPC

[headbrace]

Powerbook 12" with airport, might be bit more than yuo can manage, or an iBook with airport

[prehensile]

Hello, i thought woad centrino must be milking it for that premium, but novatech has some centrino 1.3g for 550 ex vat.

thg sais that the xp-m is about 24 minutes off the pentium-m chips for battery life, but much cheaper.