Osiris Posted August 3, 2002 Share Posted August 3, 2002 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted August 3, 2002 Share Posted August 3, 2002 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 Get a Dell Inspiron 8200 :) Firewire, S-VIDEO Out, 64MB Geforce4 440 Go Graphics. i just bought one. its amazing. UXGA 1600x1200 15.1" :) P4 1.6GHz. 256MB RAM 20GB Hard Drive. Free 2nd Battery , and Free DVDROM/CDRW Combo. Windows XP Pro. Total, NO TAX!! (thanks dell) :p was 1998.00 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virgo Posted August 3, 2002 Share Posted August 3, 2002 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted August 3, 2002 Share Posted August 3, 2002 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osiris Posted August 3, 2002 Author Share Posted August 3, 2002 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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