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[wolfwild]

Well, remarkably shitty week aside, i'm starting the slow burn towards law school now. waiting to find out if i got in on the housing complex they've got a deal with. worst comes to worst, i've heard there's a metric assload of nearby housing, even if it's not quite as convenient

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[xpashax]

What do you want to do with it?

[wolfwild]

well, it's going to be my computer for the next three (or more) years, so while I'd like to keep the weight down, i want something that can handle playing DVDs, burning CDs and DVDs, and a little bit of high-end gaming (I'm just too much of a meat-and-potatos guy to not feel like I'm wasting my cash on a real gaming laptop). Something that can handle putting together and viewing multimedia presentations would be nice too, as legal briefs can be a real bastard to handle if you need to include anything but text.

[xpashax]

Okay, for everything you've mentioned but the gaming, I know from expereince that 750mhz is all you'll need. With my 750mhz laptop, I was able to play DVD's perfectly at full screen, run office programs, graphic manipulation, etc. It's what I did all my work on. It wouldn't be good for 3d graphic rendering, but I don't think you're looking to make movies. For all that, I started operating at 128m of RAM, and over time upgraded to 512m. More RAM is better, but not necessary

[wolfwild]

And how long have you been an IBM rep again? :)

Seriously, thanks for the advice as far the the thinkpad's go. i've heard really good things about the X's, and the T's are pretty good, though not the rest. I'm actually springing to get a factory-direct laptop from whoever I buy from, so chances are i'll be operating at around 1.5 GHz , 512 mb of RAM.

Only problem is a lot of the best models from most companies that ould easily do what I need are still running at over 2 grand apiece, and that's just not in my bidget.

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