Laptop

Looking for a light small laptop about 13 inch screensize for me to use whilst studying at college and university will have to be light as i have to lug it around for like 1 hour there and back. Any recommendations ?

So far i was looking at

http://www.johnlewis.com/230502484/Product.aspx

Samsung Notebook Laptop, Q310 £799
P8600 2.4 Ghz (3 meg cache)
13.3 inch display
320 GB HDD
4GB Ram
nVidia 9200M GS 256 MB

For my price range and screen size - weight this seems to be the best 1 out there. According to reviews 6 hour battery time so all seems to be good. Just wondering if any1 else had any suggestions or have this laptop or had samsung before and what they thought of them.

Ok well after some searching there is a laptop on novatech which can be upgraded to these specs for the same price. This weighs about 3 KG only 1 KG more then the other 1 so it should not be too heavy, also if I am right with the better processor speed ram speed improved graphics card and HDD it may be 1.5 X as fast as the Samsung i stated above.

T9300 2.5GHz (6 meg cache)
15.4" TFT screen
4GB DDR2
320GB 7200rpm HDD
nVidia 9300M GS 256 MB
Windows Vista Ultimate

look at acer's. They are cheap, and compact.

Ooh that's some good specs for 13" Andrew.
I'm buying one for College too..I've set my eyes on a Dell 17" though, I think it should be light enough, not exactly sure, if it isn't, I'll return it.

~Abs

HP's are the cat's pajamas. I usually recommend them at work when I sell them to customers. OR Toshibas.

There is no way you need 4gb ram, exspecially on a lap top. drop that down to 2gb and you save yourself easily $100

dude, get a dell

i just customized a laptop on there to see prices for graduation and i got one for $850 (how many euros is that?) with 3gb ram, 360gb harddrive, built in webcam, cd/dvd burner, mcaffe security for 3 years, all in one printer, microsoft office 08 (yay for word), vista, and the laptop case and surge protector

[edit] and as for size, its 15.4" i think and less than 6 pounds

by the way, this thing beats the shit out of my 5 year old desktop with its 512mb ram and 120 gb hardrive... and the desktop was twice the price -.-

By the way, The '£' is not a euro, we in the United Kingdom have not switched to the Euro sign. The Pound is richer than the Euro, £800 is around $1500-$1600.

~Abs

<3 my dell. This thing is holding up better than any computer I've ever owned lol. It's an inspiron 6400 media edition with 2 operating systems: WinXP and Creative Media Direct, which basically turns the entire computer into a picture/movie viewer, dvd player, and music machine. It's epic.

+ an intel quad core makes it supa fast for anything, the only problem is the cheap gfx card, even though it's still nice for what I do, it sucks for gaming.

http://www.alienware.com/products/area-51-...ode=SKU-DEFAULT

Nuff said

If you are going to use the laptop for studying mostly, I would have to say get a Macbook. PC is good and all, but the Macbook is faster and iWork is a lot better than Microsoft Office.

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop...ook?mco=MTE3MjA

You will not be disappointed

Are you using this laptop solely for work, or are you looking to play games on it as well?

If you're looking for compact and work only, look for netbooks as opposed to notebooks. They're smaller, consume less power, and generally only come with XP as Vista takes up to much power.

You probably won't be able to do much more than run the OS, some music, MS Word and FFox.

What's your budget?

I'd agree with the getting a MacBook. It's a powerful machine and has some great programs and applications to boot. I've personally become so accustomed to the Mac format that it'd be hard for me to switch back. I'm constantly itching to do certain things I do on my Mac when I have to use school computers. That's beside the point though.

Get the low end aluminum MacBook if you're into that.

If you're set on PC, then look to Dell. They might not have powerful computers, but they sure as hell are sturdy.

13-inch
14-inch

There are others on the Dell website, but these seem alright for work purposes.

i would stick with windows xp hun, it seems that vista is still having trubbles with it