Preferably cheaper, but right around 700 is the max I want to spend right now.
I am on it all the time, constantly out of my office, battery life of 3 hours should be achievable.
I was looking at a Vaio and it came recommended, if I had 2x the budget I’d by a mac, but its not in the books right now, and my HP DV2000 seems to have a screen flicker problem that I noticed 3 weeks ago (it stopped until yesterday night, for about 30 seconds… naturally, i’m preparing for the worst)
I’ll have CS5 on it, some web applications, tons of powerpoints, movies, music, etc…
Not going to be a gaming pc, but it must have HDMI and wireless display options would be cool.
Must be reliable, this HP has been relatively good, but my old vaio is nearly 10 years old, and still works like a charm.
Macbook - Craigslist. I bought my gf a 3 month old Macbook unibody last year for $500… (make sure it’s still under Applecare though if you buy from craigslist - as much as I trust people it’s always nice with a warranty).
Acers fucking suck…Almost all the ones I’ve worked on have had these weird hardware problems. Their support site is awful. I would not get one of these.
Viao’s suck. Imo get an asus or msi laptop. They are much easier to fix when they do break, and don’t break as often. You can even overclock some of the msi ones.
OK, have a backup laptop to use for now… so I;'m not in such a bind anymore… also, My broken HP works fine when its plugged into my tv…? So my guess is the lcd or something is causing the flicker… Any ideas?
