LAPTOP FORUM

Also posted to u.c.misc.

My daughter wants to buy her husband a laptop for Christmas and wants
my advice.

It will be used for Office type apps and Internet access but no games.
They will want to d/l pictures from their digital camera but probably
only for printing, not for editing.

It seems to me the main price differentiator is screen resolution, i.e.
a 1024x768 is much cheaper than a 1400x1050, followed by the processor
which seems to control battery life.

I think a Pentium M 1.6, 512MB ram, 40GB (more if pos) HD plus wireless
networking would fit the bill.

I would really appreciate any recommendations - both what to get and
what to avoid - I guess I will have to set up the wireless network and
provide telephone support so reliability will be important :-)

It seems to me that many magazine reviews are of models that dont
actually exist for general purchase but perhaps I am looking in the
wrong place.


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Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK