Help chosing a new laptop

Originally Posted by Thingus

I've got a 1 year old HP and the screen's bust, power cord broke and had to be replaced, scroll bar breaks every so often, volume bar on the top has broken, the HP addons are useless, the DVD player by HP is full screen so whenever you press the button by accident you have to wait for it to load and then close it which usually disrupts things you're doing. Worst of all though, the cooling design is absolutely abismal, even being cautious, it can burn a hole in my trousers in 2 minutes flat.

Wouldn't recommend them to anyone.

Is it a 8510p? If so I have a fix for the cooling issue and the screens can be fragile if you carry them about with one hand.

It's a dv9000 entertainment laptop. I agree on the screen thing, it's not like i've kept it in one place for its life, but my step-bro's laptop's 4 years old and has moved house every day for the last 18 months and it's fine, cooling aswell.

ps his is Fujitsu-Siemens or something.

Originally Posted by vannus

Also remember vista 32 bit cannot see 4Gb ram. If it was me would try to go for less ram maybe even smaller hdd and try to get a seperate graphics card. If you need more storage external hdd are around 50-60 for 320Gb.

pls get your facts straight!!

32bit will see up to 4GB of RAM

then you need 64bit

Originally Posted by 600+

pls get your facts straight!!

32bit will see up to 4GB of RAM

then you need 64bit

Must Have been fixed then as when vista came out it saw 4gig as about 3.4 due to glitch. I dont use it so if info was outdated apols.
Much prefer xp pro anyways.