Which notebook should I buy?

[WhiteEagle]

Hey all,

Need some advice on which notebook I should buy. I will be using it for F@H, working on my writing projects (coding and writing novels), and listening to music. If I get a DVD drive with it, I could also watch movies and play games on it.

I don't know whether I should save up for a Dell XPS 1330 ($1,299.99), a Asus Eee 4GB($399.99), or the Eee 20GB(~$600) (which I'd have to wait 6 months for). The XPS comes with Vista, and has a DVD drive, plus better graphics, bigger HD, and better CPU, but is it worth it in the end when I wouldn't put such features that often to the use (except for the CPU in F@H)? The Eee's come with Linux pre-installed, and no DVD drive, and I don't know if you can connect a USB DVD drive to a Linux machine and be able to use it...

If someone could help me out with some advice, I'd appreciate it a lot.

Thanks in advance,
Nathan

[polobunny]

No problem with Linux. As for the rest, how much would you like to spend? Games? What kind of games?

[Tech Geek Deluxe]

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[Captain Crunch]

Take a look at the review on this laptop ...pretty sweet!
AnandTech: Gateway P-6831 FX: Best Midrange Gaming Notebook Ever

[drew and not u]

Don't forget to check out the Vostro line of notebooks from dell. They're designed for small business, but are better constructed than consumer notebooks. They're light, solid, come with very little crap-ware preinstalled, have better support, and look sweet. I've gotten them for a couple people and they are fantastic machines. If you can't order them through the small business dept, you can get them on ebay with a transferable warranty.

[WhiteEagle]

Originally Posted by polobunny

No problem with Linux. As for the rest, how much would you like to spend? Games? What kind of games?

Games if possible I tend to play RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 and CivCity Rome right now. As for money, if I have to spend more to get a good laptop, I will.

[Capper]

Damn good notebook for sale right here:

FS: ASUS G1 Notebook

[Parker]

A friend of mine was looking for a good gaming laptop as well, what he did was buy three laptops to test and see which one he liked most, he bought a Dell XPS high end something, an ASUS and that Gateway.
He said once he testing out the Gateway, he just took the others back as they were no match.
He loves it! He plays Crysis, HL2, BioShock, and plenty of other incredibly graphic hungry games on it without any problems.

[azianai]

if you want to fold, and if i remember correctly folding utilizes multicores, the only laptop company that i know that offers Q6600s and still makes it affordable is sager.
I personally wanna get a Sager computer, but thats because they got 8800GTXm and can SLI it lol

[WhiteEagle]

I think I may go with the XPS 1330...so I can play games, watch DVDs, fold@home on it, surf the net, and work on my business and writing on it.