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G'day All

My Mate is starting to setup his own business, anyway he wants to run just one piece of software in particular, anyway my experience with laptops is pretty limited, when it comes to desktops no worries, but laptops are alittle different so I have come here just to make sure, when he goes to get it hes getting the right one.

Basically

The Laptop that I thought would do the job for him was this one

COMPAQ EVO N1000V - Celeron 1500, 256Mb DDR, 20Gb, 14.1 Screen, 32Mb Video, DVD, Floppy Drive, 56k Modem, Lan, XP Pro

The Software

The software he needs to run is a golf application used to help tutor people with their swings etc eitherwqay the specs for it are as followed

For firewire capture (highly recommended) a higher specification is required:

Pentium PII processor (400 MHz or greater)

64 megabytes of RAM

1 UDMA hard disk (preferably 2)

8 Mbyte video display card

An SGVA monitor (17 inch or larger is preferred

The Thoughts

Now judging from those specs you would think that laptop would do it easily but I have soke questions I better check up on because im really not to sure how it works with laptops.

1. The Laptop has a TFT screen, will that be good enough to provide accurate and sharp video? and then accurate and sharp still images? Because the software he will be running is in sort a video capture software, so the video image quality needs to be sharp when playing ans sharp when the program puts it into slowmotion

2. Will this Laptop be able to support a video caputure card?

3. Do you see any reason why buying this laptop wouldnt suit my mate?

Thanks in Advance Guys

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Originally posted by Osiris

G'day All

My Mate is starting to setup his own business, anyway he wants to run just one piece of software in particular, anyway my experience with laptops is pretty limited, when it comes to desktops no worries, but laptops are alittle different so I have come here just to make sure, when he goes to get it hes getting the right one.

Basically

The Laptop that I thought would do the job for him was this one

COMPAQ EVO N1000V - Celeron 1500, 256Mb DDR, 20Gb, 14.1 Screen, 32Mb Video, DVD, Floppy Drive, 56k Modem, Lan, XP Pro

The Software

The software he needs to run is a golf application used to help tutor people with their swings etc eitherwqay the specs for it are as followed

For firewire capture (highly recommended) a higher specification is required:

Pentium PII processor (400 MHz or greater)

64 megabytes of RAM

1 UDMA hard disk (preferably 2)

8 Mbyte video display card

An SGVA monitor (17 inch or larger is preferred

The Thoughts

Now judging from those specs you would think that laptop would do it easily but I have soke questions I better check up on because im really not to sure how it works with laptops.

1. The Laptop has a TFT screen, will that be good enough to provide accurate and sharp video? and then accurate and sharp still images? Because the software he will be running is in sort a video capture software, so the video image quality needs to be sharp when playing ans sharp when the program puts it into slowmotion

2. Will this Laptop be able to support a video caputure card?

3. Do you see any reason why buying this laptop wouldnt suit my mate?

Thanks in Advance Guys

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15" SXGA+ TFT Active Matrix w/ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 w/64MB DDR

2.2GHz Intel Pentium? 4 Processor w/512k L2 Cache - 400MHz System Bus Speed

40.0GB Ultra ATA/100

512MB (1 DIMM) PC2100 DDR Memory

Combo 8X DVD/8x8x24 CD-RW w/Softwares

3.5" 1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive

Built-in 56k V.90 Data/Fax Modem

Built-in 10/100BaseT Ethernet w/RJ-45 Jack

Built-in IEEE 1394 (Firewire)

Standard Carrying Case

Productivity Software Bundle

Smart Li-ion Battery

$1,860.00

plus wireless network cards are only 99$

l8z

Virgo

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Originally posted by Virgo

15" SXGA+ TFT Active Matrix w/ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 w/64MB DDR

2.2GHz Intel Pentium? 4 Processor w/512k L2 Cache - 400MHz System Bus Speed

40.0GB Ultra ATA/100

512MB (1 DIMM) PC2100 DDR Memory

Combo 8X DVD/8x8x24 CD-RW w/Softwares

3.5" 1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive

Built-in 56k V.90 Data/Fax Modem

Built-in 10/100BaseT Ethernet w/RJ-45 Jack

Built-in IEEE 1394 (Firewire)

Standard Carrying Case

Productivity Software Bundle

Smart Li-ion Battery

$1,860.00

plus wireless network cards are only 99$

l8z

Virgo >

my graphics chip ****es all over that radeon crap. so whatever! and my screen is UXGA 1600x1200 Buddy, so blah!:pp also that uses a DESKTOP Proc, "Hey where'd my battery life go!?!?" "hey why is this thing so damn heavy!!".

LOL:pp

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whoa hey thanks for the prices and all guys but this dude is on a budget

and he wants to buy it locally not over the net

and where in like regional australia so prices here aint exactly what youd call descent

Will the laptop I pointed out originally do the job of running quicken - for his gst stuff

and the golf app whos specs I metioned etc

thats all he needs it for, so.

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