| Author | Message | ||
| Nebula Class (Nebulaclass)
Member Username: Nebulaclass Post Number: 538 Registered: 11-2002 |
Taek - Check this out: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=1055388014465&skuId=5616363&type=product It's got a video card, and a pretty decent setup, for less than $1100. Good luck! | ||
| Nebula Class (Nebulaclass)
Member Username: Nebulaclass Post Number: 537 Registered: 11-2002 |
Taek - I beleive you are in California, though not sure if it's SoCal or NorCal. Regardless, I recently helped a friend shop around for a laptop, and I saw, at Best Buy, a laptop from HP that had a fairly decent CPU, Memory setup, and a video card for around $1200. This was maybe two months ago, so it may be lower in price. I'll see if I can find some info for you on it. | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Senior Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 6765 Registered: 8-2002 |
How about Ferrari laptops for all the good little employees...? | ||
| Taek-Ho Kwon (Stickanddice)
Intermediate Member Username: Stickanddice Post Number: 2167 Registered: 11-2002 |
Adam, Thank you very much for the offer, but I didn't intend this to be a plea for better prices.  I accept whatever the company's valuation of their product is and don't mind paying for it as long as they deliver as advertised. Thanks again. You work for a great company! The only complaints on our current laptops is that they weren't configured for gaming! And that is obviously not IBM's fault. They are excellent and reliable products and as of now, the front runners in my decision making. Nebula, I don't have the luxury of waiting that long. I need to have these by November and latest by January. If I buy piecemeal I'd need a few by November. Cheers | ||
| Nebula Class (Nebulaclass)
Member Username: Nebulaclass Post Number: 534 Registered: 11-2002 |
Taek - If you want to get something that the guys can play games on, I'd wait a while. Most laptops do not have a video card; they used a shard memory system where 16 or 32 megs of system memory is diverted to be used solely for video. The problem is, without a video chip, the memory doesn't serve as a very good video system. I have a one year old HP without a video card, and there are zero games available today that I can play without one. A year ago I found a few, but not anymore. There are laptops with video cards, but they are fairly pricey. Give it six more months, and just about every laptop will have a video card, and you'll be able to fin $1200 examples. Good luck! | ||
| Kenny Herman (Kennyh)
Intermediate Member Username: Kennyh Post Number: 1283 Registered: 8-2001 |
Adam, I think I might take you up on that discount, mind emailing me? THANKS! [email protected] | ||
| Adam Goldman '86 TR (Icnsltmfg)
Member Username: Icnsltmfg Post Number: 617 Registered: 8-2001 |
If you need some help, I work for IBM in the Global Services Group. I can put you in touch with the rep in your area / industry, and help work on the price. If anyone else needs hardware for personal use, let me know, as we get a nice discount that I will gladly pass on. | ||
| Taek-Ho Kwon (Stickanddice)
Intermediate Member Username: Stickanddice Post Number: 2158 Registered: 11-2002 |
Mark, Cute picture sans pee. James, I'm already doing the $1 buyout lease currently with the IBMs. I'm leaning towards IBMs right now, given the feedback so far. Alienware? Pretty cool stuff, but over what I want I want to spend. Remember, this is a business laptop first, play second. Cheers | ||
| MarkPDX (Markpdx)
Member Username: Markpdx Post Number: 838 Registered: 4-2003 |
Be sure to get the extended warranty, you never know what might happen...  | ||
| James Dunne (Audiguy)
Member Username: Audiguy Post Number: 301 Registered: 6-2003 |
Taek-Ho, If you are going to lease for your guys, you might consider doing this. Our dealer got Dells for us (Michael Dell is a 360 owner) and we pay him for the lease. It costs us $79 a month and at the end of 15 months, we pay him $1 for the computer. It is then ours to do with as we please and he is actually out nothing but gets the tax write-off on the lease. While I was with FoDallas, I sold the man who is in charge of all the business leases at Dell 2 360's. I would be happy to get you his contact info if you are interested in getting Dell. | ||
| Me Myself (Kid_enzoz)
Junior Member Username: Kid_enzoz Post Number: 169 Registered: 4-2003 |
www.alienware.com | ||
| dave handa (Davehanda)
Intermediate Member Username: Davehanda Post Number: 1930 Registered: 5-2001 |
Taek, My company used to issue Dell's; they were nice and most everyone liked them, but after a couple years of use, ALL of the units started having small screws come loose inside...these would short out stuff and cause the drive to fail. I had a lot of problems with the keyboards myself. We'll see on the IBM's, but our Company has been using the IBM's for over two years now and I guess they are holding up. I didn't know IBM offered the thinkpads with both the nipple and pad, ours all just have the nipple, guess we got the stripped model.... :-) | ||
| Taek-Ho Kwon (Stickanddice)
Intermediate Member Username: Stickanddice Post Number: 2153 Registered: 11-2002 |
Yeah, I want to get something cool. They are keeping them after a few years so I might as well try to get them something they can use. Also, when they take the things home I'm sure they use it for personal use, which is fine, as long as there's no kiddy porn or other sick stuff like that. Because of the nature of the purchase plan I think the laptops have to be preconfigured, so no add ons, unless I want my tech guy to sit there and install these things on all machines. Cheers | ||
| Rikky Alessi (Ralessi)
Member Username: Ralessi Post Number: 371 Registered: 5-2002 |
if they are going to be playing more than hearts/solitaire, they would need no less than an ATI radeon 9500 or geforce 4 midrange card I'm not sure how this works on laptops, but these start from about 150 on the low end for desktops | ||
| Taek-Ho Kwon (Stickanddice)
Intermediate Member Username: Stickanddice Post Number: 2149 Registered: 11-2002 |
Hmmm... Looks like IBM will be the way to go. Thanks all for all your input. It is much appreciated. Cheers | ||
| Dan (Bobafett)
Intermediate Member Username: Bobafett Post Number: 1440 Registered: 9-2002 |
IBM makes brilliant machines. T-series is tops. Their service is amazing (can you say same-day in-house parts replacement, no charge), and the quality of product is unbeatable. Worth every last penny. --Dan | ||
| Ben Cannon (Artherd)
Member Username: Artherd Post Number: 979 Registered: 6-2002 |
Taek- gotta love $1 buyout lease! If you want machines to be trouble free and rugged, you simply cannot beat the IBM Thinkpad. Peroid. X31 is a good really portable model, T30 is a little bigger, but more performance. PS: sure do love my Mac G4 titanium though! 15" 16:10 widescreen display is just drop-dead amazing. Don't like apple's current 15" replacement, too much plastic. | ||
| Noelrp (Noelrp)
Member Username: Noelrp Post Number: 333 Registered: 8-2001 |
Taek, We use IBM's in the office as well. We are currently migrating to Thinkpad T-40's. However, the T-40 is huge(dimension wise) not my preference for mobility. Check out the IBM Thinkpad T-30. It's IBM's mid-line thinkpad and my favorite. Lighter & has both stick & pad. We buy our laptops at www.cdw.com. HTH. -n | ||
| Taek-Ho Kwon (Stickanddice)
Intermediate Member Username: Stickanddice Post Number: 2137 Registered: 11-2002 |
Dave, I liked the IBMs because ours have the eraserhead and the touchpad. Some have preference for one, others absolutely despise it. I was looking at Sony's line but I think they're a bit overpriced. I plan on having these laptops for about three years and then dumping them for new ones. I've also heard great stuff about Fujitsu. Extremely polar reactions to Dell. Those who hate them REALLY hate them. Tyson, They have a business services part where business leases are available. I think you have to contact their corporate sales department. Their leasing program allows us to lease for three years, I think, and then buy for a dollar at the end. Since the computers are near useless to me I just give them to the employees at the end of the term for a dollar. You're really buying them when it comes down to it, it's just that for tax reasons they're called leases to make the balance sheet pretty and the bean counters happy. Cheers | ||
| William H (Countachxx)
Advanced Member Username: Countachxx Post Number: 3176 Registered: 2-2001 |
its going to get really interesting in the PC market in a few years when diamond chips replace silicon chips | ||
| dave handa (Davehanda)
Intermediate Member Username: Davehanda Post Number: 1923 Registered: 5-2001 |
Check Consumers Reports...they did a story on laptops a month or two ago. My company uses the IBM thinkpads as well....Just got one a couple months ago... and while not the anywhere near the top version, it works quite well. Not a techi at all but this has the Pentium 4(not sure of the speed) 30 gig hard drive, dvd drive, 15" display...etc...can't complain for free....don't like the nipple/stick, but bought a mouse...I think this cost our company around 1200 or so...I believe we buy 12 to 15 of these every month as replacements for ones that die or become outdated... | ||
| Tyson Hall (Trhall)
Member Username: Trhall Post Number: 423 Registered: 6-2003 |
Who do you lease your current laptops from? I was checking out the IBM website and didn't see anything about leasing. | ||
| Taek-Ho Kwon (Stickanddice)
Intermediate Member Username: Stickanddice Post Number: 2136 Registered: 11-2002 |
Time for me to buy some laptops for a company of mine. All my IT guys obviously want the most outrageously expensive superfly mac daddy machines. I, on the other hand, want to be cheap. Anyone have any good suggestions? I'm thinking the thing should have about 2Gigs for speed and the more goodies the better. No Macs please. Its supposed to be for work but I know these guys play games on them so I might as well be a nice guy and have the things be pretty good with games. Battery life is important as well. Currently we have IBM Thinkpads and I'm pretty happy with them. Was thinking of getting the same thing only faster. I have to get about 45 of them. I'm going to lease them for tax purposes. Point being I don't want $4k machines. Under $2k for sure and closer to around $1.5k. Cheers |