Which Notebook to Choose?

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From: Julia
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 00:00

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Which Notebook?I have this headache of choosing a notebook for my university use. I was hoping any computer guru out there would be kind enough to offer me some help. I would be using the notebook for programming (JAVA), for website-designing, for graphics, multimedia authoring(Director) hopefully, and also word processing. I created a table to highlight what the important factors are to me. I may be wrong, but I have this view that Celeron is inferior to Pentium II. My budget is actually <$4000, but now I am wondering whether extra few hundred dollars might be worth the extra hard disk and screen size. [The specific models are below the table.] 

      Notebook 1 2 3 4 5 
      Processor PII300 Cel366 PII400 Cel400 PII400 
      Hard Disk 4.8 GB 4.0 GB 10.0 GB 4.0 GB 9.3 GB 
      RAM  64 MB 64 MB 64 MB 128 MB 64 MB 
      Price S$3738 S$2492 S$4224 S$2795 S$4415 
      Brand Acer Compaq Compaq Toshiba Toshiba 
      Weight 1.8 (without CDrom & FDD) 3.0 kg (with CDrom & FDD) < 2.0 kg (without CDrom & FDD) 3.0 kg (with CDrom & FDD) UNKNOWN 
      Screen Size 12.1" 12.1" 14.1" 12.1" 14.1" 
      Warranty(international doesn't matter to me) 1 year (carry-in) 2 years (local) 3 years (on-site) 3 years (on-site) 3 years (on-site) 
      FDD & CDrom External Internal External Internal Internal 
      Modem (my school is providing a "Network & Modem Adapter") Yes No No No No 
      Special Stuff Looks cool and is very light. Was a winning notebook in a Taipei thing. Acer is not reputed for notebooks though. And the 1 year warranty is suspicious. Also has a 3D graphics accelarator (dunno what that means) Was rated 5th in "Top 5 Notebook" Survey by PCMagazine. Cheapest here. Like its light weight but hate ugly docking bays and like its power. Cheap...128 MB of RAM. Powerful. Often read about. Price a little steep. the steepest of all in fact. 

S$1 approx = US$1.7

1: Acer Travelmate 330T -- 2: Compaq Armada 1500C -- 3: Compaq Armada MS -- 

4: Toshiba Satellite 2590CDT -- 5: Toshiba Tecra 8000S

I would be grateful if you would drop me an email or simply reply to this NG, as to which notebook you would choose. 

* * * * * * * * THANK YOU for your time! * * * * * * * *

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Date: 1999/07/12
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