need to get one for gf's bday.

 

 

you're a good bf!

 

While you can use a laptop computer in a lab, it is designed to be small enough to fit on your lap, hence the name.

There's two main kinds of laptops: nice and small with long battery life, or big and chunky with higher performance. Which one do you think she'd want?

 

I have the 2nd one and want to get rid of it for the small one.

then again, there's the IBM X series which is small, light, and super powerful for super expensive price.

 

okay laptop it is then. nice and small with long battery life. my gf is lazy when carrying heavier loads h:

 

Dude, get a Dell.

They have some cheap deals going on. Not sure how their laptops are, but I can vouch their PC's suck.

PowerBook would be

 

iBook

 

You can get an Apple iBook in that price range--not sure if you want a Mac though.

Dell Inspiron 600m is reasonably sized and depending on how you configure it you should be able to get it down to your number. So is the Gateway M320.

HP Pavilion dv1000 is widescreen and is pretty thin and light too. Might be a little more expensive and it's crap for games, but if you don't play games then ya don't need to worry about that.

Just don't set your expectations too high when it comes to performance because anything at that price is not going to be super speedy.

 

I bought my IBM Thinkpad R-40 a year ago for $1239 and it came with a free executive genuine leather carrying case and a lexmark color printer. It is a P4 2ghz 256mb sdram 40GB HD CD-RW/DVD-ROM Radeon 7500 32mb graphics card USB 2.0 blah blah blah. It is perfect for me and I love it. Certainly you should be able to get something similar much cheaper or something better for about the same price now, as that was a year ago. I got mine direct from IBM.com, check the clearance corner for special deals on overstocks and refurbs. I was going to just get a refurbished one, but they had these brand new for like the same money.

IBM Thinkpad > *.laptops