[BNM] Dual Core Laptops - Recommendations and dangers

[James Bowman]

Jeff,

We just had a couple of Sony VGN-FE11S laptops through here and they were fantastic. T2400, 1GB RAM, 15.4" X-Black display (1280x800), DVD+/-RW, 16GB HDD, GeForce 7400 256MB.

Ran Premiere and After Effects better than some of the 3GHz P4s in the office. And Procoder flew.

After being let down by Insight, we eventually got them at short notice from Comet of all places for about £1150.

If the budget won't stretch to that, take a look for an Asus as they actually build the Sony's anyway. And Apple's from what I heard.

Also, we've just taken delivery of an Inspiron here. Pretty much the same spec as the Sony, but with an 80GB HDD. It does however have a 17" screen which I have to say, looks cracking, but only when it's plugged in. You can turn the brightness up when running on the battery, but don't expect it to last too long. It's also not as heavy as it looks.

HTH.

James.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Horne [mailto:jaybeeter at googlemail.com] 
Sent: 05 April 2006 11:17
To: bnmlist at brightonnewmedia.org
Subject: [BNM] Dual Core Laptops - Recommendations and dangers

Hi All,

As Easter approacheth you can sense the electrical shops taunting me with
their electronic goods.  I'm in the market for a dual core laptop (PC -
nothing in particular against Macs, the video editing on them is not to my
taste).  I've seen a bit of tooing and froing about whether Dells are any
good or not.  They're advertising an Inspiron 6400 for £648 at the mo.
Anyone got one?  Any good?

Similarly PCworld have an Advent 7093 for £799.  Any good?

...or should i just stop thinking about sales and promotions and save up for
an Acer for about a grand through ebuyer?

Any thoughts (other than "check the archive" - i have, i think these are
different spec or new models) would be appreciated.

Ta,
Jeff 

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