Mickey Wrote:

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:Thanks for the comments :)

Vegetano1 Wrote:If you got the money why not go for a netbook,. maybe a 15" slim notebook,. ;p

Yeah, too expensive.  10in netbooks are around $550-600.  Cheapest 15in notebook I can find is over $800.

My 15in notebook was $300 T.T

US$1 = AU$1.56, so that'd be AU$468, which is pretty crazy even if you consider shipping costs.  Makes no sense why it's so expensive here... :/

my macbook was £200 and its almost 3 year old

upgraded it to 3gb ram and 320gb hd and added leopard and ilife to the mac partition

i found they still sell with the default with tiger and the 120gb hd and 1gb ram sells for £500 i was like double you tee eff

its like a hybrid

its 13.3inch

(This post was last modified: 01/03/2009 04:52 PM by squee666.)

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:US$1 = AU$1.56, so that'd be AU$468, which is pretty crazy even if you consider shipping costs.  Makes no sense why it's so expensive here... :/

Discount, 2nd hand, in the past, whatever. Seriously doubt you can get a decent (decent = with decent parts) new 15inch laptop for AU$468.

Assassinator Wrote:

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:US$1 = AU$1.56, so that'd be AU$468, which is pretty crazy even if you consider shipping costs.  Makes no sense why it's so expensive here... :/

Discount, 2nd hand, in the past, whatever. Seriously doubt you can get a decent (decent = with decent parts) new 15inch laptop for AU$468.

Thought he meant new.
As for 2nd hand, I typically find that most sellers charge far too much - like trying to sell Pentium 2's for like $400.

From link, appears to be fairly decently specc'd.

Didn't see the link. New, but I was discount though.

Anyway, 2GB celeron seems a bit weak to me, comparatively. Most 15inch laptops ship with core2 these days.

(This post was last modified: 01/03/2009 06:20 PM by Mickey.)

Assassinator Wrote:Didn't see the link. New, but I was discount though.

Anyway, 2GB celeron seems a bit weak to me, comparatively. Most 15inch laptops ship with core2 these days.

For the price, it's still better than most netbook deals IMO.  Around that price, you typically get 8.9in screen with Atom N270 1.6GHz + 1GB RAM.

krystabegnalie Wrote:is laptops with Intel Atom processor is much better than P4 processors, or same as a core2 processors?

Atom is a very simple processor which doesn't perform terribly well in terms of performance.  It's nowhere near the Core 2 (interestingly, Core 2 processors actually have better performance per watt than the Atom) - perhaps similar to the older Pentium 4s in terms of clock to performance ratio though I really don't know.

(This post was last modified: 01/03/2009 07:37 PM by ZiNgA BuRgA.)