thinking buying a laptop

[Agmen of Eladesor]

You may as well go with Vista. Once you turn off UAC and tone it down, it's actually a nice little OS. Or give yourself the option to dual boot. The problem with laptops is that, especially with the newer ones, there aren't XP drivers for some of the hardware that you can get on the laptop. So keep that in mind.

Most of you guys aren't old enough to remember why Acer got such a bad reputation - they were selling new computers with refurbished parts and calling them new. Like the tower I had that was supposed to have a 166MHz processor in it - that instead they'd put in an OC 120 MHz processor.

The problem I have with laptops - and I'm using one to play Freelancer and type this - is the lack of easy upgradability. With a desktop, it's not much of an issue unless you buy a slimline HP or Dell - and in that case, you deserve the rape if you were dumb enough to buy it in the first place.

Have you looked at the Toshiba Qosmio? Dual Nvidia 9800 cards...
X305-Q706

Operating System
Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium (SP1, 64/32-bit)
Processor
Intel Core2 Duo Processor P8400
Processor Type
Core2 Duo
Processor Number
P8400
Processor Speed
2.26GHz
Front Side Bus
1066MHz
Memory Size
4096MB
Memory Speed
PC3-8500 DDR3 1066MHz SDRAM
Display Size
17.0" widescreen
Display Type
WSXGA+ with TruBrite Technology
Display Resolution
1680x1050
Graphics Engine
Dual NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS graphics with NVIDIA SLI Technology
Graphics Memory
512MBx2 GDDR3 discrete graphics memory plus up to 1663MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory using NVIDIA TurboCache technology
Hard Drive Size
320GB
Hard Drive Speed
7200rpm
Secondary Hard Drive Size
No Secondary Hard Drive Installed
Optical Drives
DVD-SuperMulti (+/-R double layer) with Labelflash drive supporting up to 11 formats
Wireless LAN
Atheros Wireless-LAN (802.11b/g/n)

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.