Comments - Laptop/Notebook Choice

[Hellhulk]

Well I think I found what I want:

Edit: I went with the notebook listed below in my reply!

[Joe (Gardah)]

if you wanna really customize you PC, the customer service isnt top notch but the hardware is very good, try Widow PC. It can get a little pricey but it is really nice.

[Deliverence (SilentPlague)]

that seems a little pricy for what ur getting. I got my laptop from dell and they aloud me to customize it how i wanted. asus board 80 gig hard drive radeon mobile card (comparable to a 9800 pro 512 ram)  1 gig of ram. dvd burner. around 1000 bucks. look around a little more beforeu buy Or hell just go all out and get a 3 grand alienware laptop

[Andrew (I2ed3ye)]

He's probably paying $600 more for the processor and video card.

[Hellhulk]

This is what I found on an alternative website:

ASUS, Z81Sp Notebook Barebone
15.4" TFT WSXGA
nVidia® GeForce™ Go 6800 256MB Graphics
INTEL, Pentium® 4 521 2.80GHz HT EM64T XD, 800MHz FSB, 1MB L2 cache, 90nm, LGA775, Retail
DDR2-533, 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2-4200 DDR2 533MHz SDRAM SODIMM, Non-ECC
WESTERN DIGITAL, 40GB Scorpio WD400VE, 5400-RPM, 8MB cache, 9.5mm, EIDE, OEM
CUSTOM LAPTOP, Dual-Layer DVD-R/RW Notebook Optical Drive
NETWORK, Built-in IEEE 802.11b/g 11/54Mbps WLAN Adapter (Included)
CUSTOM LAPTOP, Built-in 4-in-1 MMC/SD/MS/MS Pro Media Card Reader
ANTEC, Cooling System for Notebook / Laptop Computers, Black/Pearl
SOFTWARE, No Operating System (Choose or subject to Limited Support)
WARRANTY, Assembled and Tested (1 Year Limited Parts, Lifetime Labor Warranty)

It's about 400mhz lower in CPU speed but I increased my memory by 1gb and it's $1639.22.  I'm thinking the additional memory would be more crucial than a little faster CPU but I may be incorrect.  Any thoughts on this?

[Canopus]

I would get the lowest possible memory and then goto www.crucial.com and upgrade it. I saved over $1000 on my Dell XPS G2 doing this.

[Hellhulk]

Yeah I was going to do that but I decided that a 2.8 is good enough for my needs and I'd rather just get the memory preinstalled and not have to do anything extra.  I indeed did go with the system above and it's supposed to arrive sometime next week.  I'll let you guys know how I like it and I hope it plays EQ II well (yes that's what I'm currently playing )

[Hellhulk]

Well, the company called me and told me they had a problem with my order.  They said the 521 was incompatible with the motherboard so they had to upgrade to a 640 which will bring me from a 2.8ghz-3.0ghz for only another $16.  YIPPEE!