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My dad is going to get me a new laptop and he told me to go research but I know that the great people on the geek culture forums would have some wise advice I'm still going to look around the internet but if you have any suggestions as to whats good, I'd appreciate some help.

1. What companies have good prices for their quality?
2. What kind of processor would be good for a laptob?
3. I'd like to use maya and other 3d programs on it. What will I need for that or is it even possible?
4. Are there any traps or gimmicks that I should look out for when buying a laptop?
5. Anything else that would be helpful to know when buying a laptop.

Thanks in advance

amd turion or pentium processor is best, not a celeron although a sempron if you're on a tight budget is ok.

graphics wise try and get ati or nvidia. watch out for 128mb dedicated graphics processor because if it's reluctant to tell you what it is, it'll be intel.

be sure to go and look at the screens of the laptops in a shop of the same family you want to buy, some companies have much nicer screens than others, dell screens have a really poor viewing angle for example.
do the same for touchpads, i hate the dell ones personally but it's down to personal taste.

ram 512mb at least, you can get nice big hard disks too now. try and find a sata one if you can although i think it's just the 80GB+ drives that are sata.

graphics again just a reminder about the cababilities of the different models
ati radeon X300, X600 etc shader model 2 (2.1?) bigger the number the better, check the ram too
radeon X1400 etc are shader model 3, again check the ram though
nvidia 5x00 etc shader model 2
nvidea 6x00 and 7x00 are shader model 3, but don't do hdr and fsaa at the same time (like a laptop would do that anyway )
beware these nvidia numbers 6800 is better than 7300 but in a laptop just try to get a big numbered ati or nvidia basically

i think that's everything.. oh check what ports it has too

good luck finding a nice one

http://www.whatlaptop.co.uk/Forums/Default.aspx
These forums were fantastic when I was buying a laptop.

Cheers

I just got an IBM X41 Tablet the other day, is pretty good - much better than my old Acer C310, which had to go back to the manufacturers 3 times and still didn't work

Centrino processors are good for laptops (as thats basically what they were designed for).

If I were you I would have an ultra-modern computer and a laptop from the -third century. I have a windows xp desktop pc, and a Gateway Laptop with pentium 2 proccessor, no video card, four sound cards, Windows 98, 64 mb of ram. laptop sucks, but it had advantages to it. while you can run the new games on your pc, I run the old games that don't work on my laptop.

Wow! Thanks a lot guys. All this info will definitely help.

@Zaibatsu: Thanks... but I'm asking for advice because I'd like a good laptop

my laptop's good.... .... in its own special way