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thomas93
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M1330
Macbook Air
Not so keen on the X300 (No soul in it.)
M1530.
Highly unlikely to get one but would like opinions.
Just need a small device. Air is my favourite (: |
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paul101
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ditch the idea of an air... its rubbish once youve had it for a few weeks (kinna like most apple products)
get a lenovo ThinkPad_X60 , touchscreen swivels round flat, BRILLIANT laptop
OS: with xp tablet edition (when i got myne, i got it at reduced price (£500) because it was a return and had no OS 
it wont leave you skint like with the MacBook, but it is a genaraly pleasing laptop to use
price: £684.97
http://www.laptopsdirect.co.u[....]e_BUN-UU064UK-1396/version.asp
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drlau9
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What you pay is what you get, totally disagree with paul101. You choose your OS, then choose your machine, you have a lot more hardware choices with windoze  .
However nothing can beat the operating efficiency of a mac, linux, unix OS.
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gregface
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that x60 is poor specs if you ask me, small HDD and only 1 gig ram, plus not even core 2 duo...
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djtwistter
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stay away form hp and if you want to save yourself some money buy a dell
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paul101
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Dell?? 
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thomas93
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Dell M130 is actually very impressive.
Just the thought of the air on my desk in all its flatness makes me want it |
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^^^ yeah, then you get mega pi$$ed off with the battery life barely lasting more than an hour 
On 2008-04-17 00:22:08, gregface wrote:
that x60 is poor specs if you ask me, small HDD and only 1 gig ram, plus not even core 2 duo...
not all people are looking for great specs on there laptops
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jcwhite_uk
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On 2008-04-17 01:04:18, djtwistter wrote:
stay away form hp and if you want to save yourself some money buy a dell
My Advise would be go for HP as that is what we spec at work and have been really reliable. When they have had a fault it has been fixed next day by HP. Unlike Dell who our sister company bought three of and had 2 go wrong in the first month. Both took a month to be repaired by Dell.
Personally I use a IBM Thinkpad (not a Lenovo). Its really robust as I managed to drop it down a flight of stairs (with it bouncing off every step) and it didnt have a scratch on it. |
Red_Rach
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My HP was fine. Never had a problem with it. I've got an acer now and so far, so good!
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Funny how perceptions on one brand differ. I'm dumping my hp for a dell tomorrow. Been using my hp for 8 months now and am far from impressed. Also build quality of the dells is excellent. |
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Got my brand new dell 1721 inspiron 2.2gh, 2gb ram and 160gb hdd. My hp pavillon is no match for the dell in build quality, in fact it sucks. I'm putting the dell through its paces, it's too early but so far so good. It is also quite heavy which explains the excellent build. |
thomas93
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I think if I can scrape together the money it shall be an air.
Otherwise reconditioned Macbook or M1330 . |
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Yeah, it wasn't cheap not that it was that expensive for me either. The one aspect where the hp has the slight edge is the screen, colours and brightness on my hp are nothing short of stunning. |
drlau9
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I run a macbook and I must say the machines are really workable, I mean it does exactly what you want without having questions thrown at you in the form of pop up boxes. If I need to run windows I just switch the screen using vmware then xp (favorite windows OS) starts running.
Or restart and run windows only! Macbook specifications are becoming rather competitive, with 4gb ram, 2ghz + c2d @4mb l2 cache, 225mb gfx card this spec can work leopard easy, unlike the new OS vista.
I had this mac running on vista just to find it's just as good as vista built machines (with the same spec).
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Posted: 2008-04-16 20:50
