Cheap New Laptops: Three Of The Best
Executive Summary about Cheap New Laptop by Ara Rubyan
That said, these three laptops — Sony VAIO, HP Pavilion, and Dell Latitude — are all solid buys in a range of prices that is very competitive for brand new equipment.
Sony VAIO N170GT
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On the downside, this laptop uses an older Intel Core Duo processor. If looks count and you want to save some bucks, this is a great machine. Brand-new, this model costs about $1100 plus tax and shipping.
HP Pavilion DV6205US
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This laptop is part of the HP Pavilion DV6000 series. It is a very stylish laptop with a shiny finish — designed to appeal to the same customers who might consider a Sony or an Apple laptop. It’s got a series of high-end components and multimedia features at a price that’s lower than the comparable Dell laptop.
This laptop has some pretty nice stereo speakers from Altec Lansing. This laptop also has a 1.3 Megapixel WebCam built right in, as well as two microphones. This laptop weighs a little over 6 pounds — lighter than the comparable Dell laptop. It has a decent number of ports including a FireWire port, a VGA port, S-video and 3 USB 2.0 ports.
Dell Latitude D600
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The D series laptops from Dell use the Pentium M which comes in 1.3GHz, 1.4GHz, and 1.6GHz speeds–all paired with Intel’s new 855PM chipset. You can this laptop with between 128MB – 2GB of fast 266MHz DDR SDRAM. It also comes with a faster 40GB hard drive, or a choice of 20GB, 30GB, and 60GB drives running at slower speed. There are a number of swappable modules for the single internal bay, including CD, DVD, CD-RW, DVD/CD-RW, floppy, a second hard drive, or a second battery. The average-sized, 14.1-inch screen isn’t super. On the downside, this laptop is part of the D-series notebooks for Dell which means it will not be compatible with C-series Dell laptops.
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