2008-08-05, 03:19 AM
Lylac Wrote:HPs are way overpriced, don't get HP.Ewww.
I've got an Acer laptop. 320 GB hard drive, 4 GB of RAM, 17 inch screen, Nvidia 8600M video card, ...
If there's one piece of advice that I can give you, avoid any laptop with an Nvidia GeForce 8400~8700 graphics card! That graphics processor line was manufactured with huge flaws, and because of that they experience a very high rate of premature failure. The sad thing is that those 8000-series graphics processors are near their production end of life, so Nvidia doesn't feel like fixing the defect in their production, nor doing a recall. Laptop manufacturers who have built laptops with those GPUs won't do recalls either. Instead, they issued BIOS updates with a "fix", which is basically forcing the fans to spin at full blast to cool the GPU, all the time. This makes your laptop quite noisy and shortens its battery life a lot. So basically, it's no fix...it's a slap in the face.
Go for something with either an ATI graphics processor, or a 9000-series Nvidia.
