What should I know about buying a laptop for media-type purposes? We are going to be taking it on-road for downloading vids and pics from our cameras, stuff like that. Anything I should know GRAPHICS wise?
Right now these are the specs:
Doesn’t mention anything about video or graphics… :dunno:
I asked whitey, but I think I will have to place the order before he gets back to me.
ifyou are dealing strictly media and want some baseline software. you should look into media edition XP
It may not be strictly media, but I don’t know exactly how much we are going to be doing… maybe some video editing and stuff, and I think I’m going to upgrade it to a DVD burner if the price is still OK.
THe limiting factor on a laptop as far as video production goes will be the hard drive speed. Most of the laptop hard drives I’ve seen are rather slow. Now this won’t kill your ability to do video editing on the road, but bumping up the other specs won’t do much to help with that. I have a 1.3ghz laptop with similar specs otherwise and it works well. It’s a big difference from my desktop PC but it gets the job done.
no true limitations… i’d suggest getting a pentium m to retain best possible battery optimization, especially if you’re going to work on the road…
get ones with sd readers built in, higher speed transfer sometimes… just shop around
i like my MPC transport 2200
We are definetly sticking with the Pentium M processor… They have a “graphics Laptop” speced out with a vid card and stuff, but I don’t really like the look of it, it’s the Inspiron 6000. 
kinda ugly if you ask me, plus it’s 2 1/2 pounds heavier than the system I’ve speced out above.
f all that
are you saying I don’t really need all the extra vid stuff?
What video stuff are they offering? is it video production, video playback, or 3d video?
x23
usually it’s just some stupid ‘control panel’ for the video card and shit… a bunch of nonsense.
or they slap a very basic 3d oriented chipset in it and claim its top dog in graphics. I ordered mine as the “graphics” model (Dell inspirion 8100) back inthe day and it was just a built in GeForce 2 MX instead of the typical Intel video chipset most desktops and laptops have built in.
well, this guy is trying to convince me into the Latitude instead… :hs: I can’t seem to price it how I want though, not without spending more than I want…
just:confused:ing though
Well, here are the final specs:
I’m buying the external floppy drive and USB drive separately from newegg.com probably. Much cheaper that way.
Total: $1,238. 
no SXGA??
Wasn’t an option. What is the difference? :dunno:
if you looking for a laptop to do media on get a mac. no bs
haha
None of my software works w/ a Mac. :rolleyes:
but but but they’re just as universal as a pc!!!
/bullshit