Comments on: Tips for Purchasing a Laptop/Notebook for Around $1000 CDN

By: Laptop Fiyatları

Laptop Fiyatları — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:14:00 +0000

thanks for the post, i like it and i add my bookmark, thank you very much

By: David

David — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:02:00 +0000

Nice article!
Reading through these tips also helped me much to buy my first laptop: http://www.howtobuythings.com/computer

By: cardvdgps

cardvdgps — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 05:27:00 +0000

These are all great tips. Thanks for a great source.

By: ernesto

ernesto — Wed, 05 May 2010 18:13:29 +0000

Brett, nice blog entry. I've been away from the business a bit and had lost touch on the latest tech out there for sale.

You should definetily do an entry for custom PCs. More parts in there to consider ;)

By: Pete Boyd

Pete Boyd — Wed, 05 May 2010 08:29:41 +0000

"Are 7200rpm drives faster than 5400rpm drives?
Sometimes but sometimes not. The overall speed of a drive is influenced by many factors: the rotational speed, acces time, I/O, data density, firmware and more variables. Some 5400rpm drives outperform 7200rpm drives."
http://forum.notebookreview.com/hardware-components-aftermarket-upgrades/288101-hard-drive-recommendations-benchmarks-5400-rpm-7200-rpm.html

By: Nece228

Nece228 — Tue, 04 May 2010 20:17:45 +0000

As for CPU, you are totally wrong mr intel fanboy. The new Athlon/Phenom II are much better than intel in same or even higher price. they use less power, are faster and cooler. In fact, i just bought AMD Athlon II 250 3.0 GHZ and in benchmarks it easily beats Intel core 2 duo E8400. So deal with it.

By: brett

brett — Tue, 04 May 2010 19:10:31 +0000

I love solid state drives. I have one in my Dell Mini 9 and it's amazingly fast. For people who need serious performance on a desktop and want a OS disk, scratch disk and data disk, I recommend solid state for the OS, VelociRaptor or solid state for scratch disk and a regular (1-2TB) 7200RPM WesternDigital disk for data storage. Maybe I should make a separate guide of netbooks and performance desktops?

By: brett

brett — Tue, 04 May 2010 19:07:50 +0000

That's true about ATI, but I was giving a generic layout of how to buy a PC. For Ubuntu, Intel then nVidia then ATI have the best record in degrading order. As for the netbook comment, I purchased a Dell Mini 9 and am now only using it as a server because I found the screen and keyboard far to small to be used for any sort of daily use, besides checking network connectivity when I was a computer technician. A netbook with an external monitor, keyboard and mouse is another story however.

By: Marius Gedminas

Marius Gedminas — Tue, 04 May 2010 19:01:17 +0000

What do you think of using solid state drives instead of a hard disk? I got myself a 160 GB Intel X25-M this year, which was a bit pricey, but now I'm never waiting for the hard disk. Ubuntu boots in 10 seconds, OpenOffice starts in 2 seconds.

By: Aigars Mahinovs

Aigars Mahinovs — Tue, 04 May 2010 18:15:01 +0000

I've had too many problems with ATi video cards in laptops and Linux, so I generally recommend people either to save their money and nerves and stick to integrated Intel solutions if they don't plan on playing video games on the laptop) or to choose NVidia as they have a better track record of stable and supported drivers for Linux.

Also for some people nowadays it is better to get a 300-400$ netbook and plan to replace that in 1-2 years than to get a 1000$ notebook and plan to replace that in 3 years. Often people really don't need much more performance than a dirt cheap Atom CPU.