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    Image of ph15h ph15h
    12/17/09

    In reply to Rumor: The Google Chrome Netbook
    I have that feeling it'll be ASUS... -_- <3
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    12/17/09

    In reply to EeeBot Android Robot Being Planned By ASUS, Will Take Over The World Like Its Eee Brethren
    ASUS will be working closely with Google on the development of these robots. While details are scarce at this time, one hacker was able to poke around in a leaked ROM and found a previously unknown Android device model number:

    T-101.
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    Image of Hearthatvoiceagain Hearthatvoiceagain
    12/17/09

    In reply to Rumor: The Google Chrome Netbook
    Nice to see Techcrunch has a policy of gambling on potential employee dismemberment, kind of puts the Apple Gestapo article into perspective.
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    Image of SpriteMV SpriteMV
    12/11/09

    In reply to The Best Windows Laptops, From $400 to $1500
    I'm in the market for a cheap and portable laptop/netbook in the $400-500 range. I'm looking for 10-14" screen, dual core CPU, and 2+ GB memory. The Aspire listed above looks pretty nice! However, I'm not sure how the celeron performs. Does anyone have advice on other alternatives?
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    Image of bitgod bitgod
    12/09/09

    In reply to The Best Windows Laptops, From $400 to $1500
    I'd skip the Gateway, see the laptop reliability listing that came out a month or so ago, Gateway and HP were pretty much the worst.
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    Image of blash blash
    12/09/09

    In reply to The Best Windows Laptops, From $400 to $1500
    For $1500 the Asus G51J-A1 is a better deal than that Toshiba:
    [www.newegg.com]
    which includes a GTX 260m (not a 250), that 1920x1080 screen you don't get until the $1900 Toshiba model, and two 320 GB hard drives. It's also a smaller 15.6" screen, which means that 1920x1080 screen became that much sharper, yet still includes a num pad. True, no Blu-Ray or good speakers, but I got a good headset and Blu-Ray can go to hell IMO in the face of digital downloads.

    Just wishing it would go on sale for a couple hundred dollars less... it's really cheap for the price but stuff can never be too cheap =D
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    Image of talos talos
    12/09/09

    In reply to The Best Windows Laptops, From $400 to $1500
    I am really surprised this roundup didn't include a Mac running 7 via Bootcamp. I guess I should be a bit more faithful in Giz.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/09/09

    @talos: Well the title would technically be wrong, or at least misleading, since laptops defined specifically as Windows laptops come preloaded as an OEM.
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    Image of Toribor Toribor
    12/09/09

    In reply to The Best Windows Laptops, From $400 to $1500
    Why the lense flare? Is that even neccessary?
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    Image of Sticks Calhoun Sticks Calhoun
    12/09/09

    @Toribor: Lens flare is ALWAYS necessary. Photoshop won't even activate unless you enter in your licence key and put a flare on it.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/09/09

    In reply to The Best Windows Laptops, From $400 to $1500
    im seeing that first one with a 250gb HDD for $410 + free shipping here:

    [www.ecomelectronics.com]

    ALSO, i'd have mentioned the HDMI on that guy - im totally buying it now.

    wait - hmmm. this one has a 1.4 core 2 solo. that doesn't sound like dual core to me.

    so what do y'all think? 250gb hdd and a single core SU3500 or 160gb and a dual core SU2300??

    am i really going to miss that extra core? right now im on an old inspiron 1.6ghz celeron w/ 512mb ram. im selling it to my buddy and i don't want to step down in performance. will miss that 1920x 1200 matte screen, though.
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    Image of Keepin It Hamsta Keepin It Hamsta
    12/09/09

    @nutbastard: Tiger/CompUSA has an MSI A5000-040US on sale for $420 free 3-7 day shipping no tax in most states. 15.6", 1.9 C2D, 3GB RAM, HDMI, DVD-+RW, Wireless N, 250GB HDD with 7 Home Premium. 36 month warranty.

    [www.tigerdirect.com]
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    FigNinja promoted this comment Edited by Keepin It Hamsta at 12/09/09 4:12 PM Keepin It Hamsta was starred Keepin It Hamsta was unstarred
    Image of 64bitLover 64bitLover
    12/09/09

    @nutbastard: definitely not dual core...and the laptop link you have is for a laptop with Vista? Wtf
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/09/09

    @Keepin It Hamsta:

    dude. thank you. seriously. bottom of my heart here.
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    12/09/09

    @Keepin It Hamsta:

    just ordered. you're the man, man.
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    Image of Kirkaiya Kirkaiya
    12/10/09

    @nutbastard: If you do anything more than light web-browsing and email, then yes, you'll definitely miss the extra core. With Windows 7's much improved ability to spread things over multiple logical cores, and more and more software being multi-threaded (or just the trend to have three or five applications going at once), having two cores is sort of the new "minimum" for anything other than netbooks, imho.

    I have a Thinkpad T60 (Core 2 Duo, 2.0 GHz, 3GB RAM, Radeon X1400) right now, and planning on getting the Thinkpad T410 (or T410s) which should be out in January or February (at which point my trusty T60 will be 3 years old).

    So for anyone eying the T400 up there - wait another month or so, and you can get a bump in CPU architecture (Calpella platform, based on the same Nehalem architecture as Core i7).
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    Image of FriarNurgle FriarNurgle
    12/09/09

    In reply to The Best Windows Laptops, From $400 to $1500
    ThinkPads are nothing but trouble.
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    Xeno promoted this comment FriarNurgle was starred FriarNurgle was unstarred
    Image of Xeno Xeno
    12/09/09

    @FriarNurgle: If by trouble you mean totally solid and reliable... then yes they are trouble.
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    Image of Kirkaiya Kirkaiya
    12/10/09

    @FriarNurgle: What Xeno said - I've been using Thinkpads for 10 years - literally - and never had a problem with any of them, even though I dropped my old T42 a few times, and have abused the crap out of my T60 (I've taken it on work projects to three continents, six countries, and I can't begin to remember how many airports).

    I'm at the point where I'm not even considering anything else, to be honest (I develop software as part of what I do for a living).
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    Image of CommentingpointlesslyisMeh CommentingpointlesslyisMeh
    12/09/09

    In reply to The Best Windows Laptops, From $400 to $1500
    Missing Asus Gv51 ( I think) and the 3D version of it. Also the Gateway 7805fx (Or omething like this).

    I'm sorry if I'm off on model numbers...being lazy.
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    Image of 32ndnote 32ndnote
    12/09/09

    In reply to The Best Windows Laptops, From $400 to $1500
    This picture is an excellent lesson in graphic design. To make it a really swell day, here's another.
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    Image of dragon:ONE dragon:ONE
    12/09/09

    In reply to The Best Windows Laptops, From $400 to $1500
    Oh, thank whoever made this list for not including HP/Compaq's cruddy laptops on here.
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    Image of bmbruno001 bmbruno001
    12/09/09

    In reply to The Best Windows Laptops, From $400 to $1500
    It should be noted that the Asus UL30a mentioned above is actually the UL30A-X5 model, versus the UL30A-A1 or A2 models that are so commonly reviewed. The biggest difference is that the X5 features a black chassis and lower-capacity battery, but my X5 still gets 6 to 8 hours per charge. Fantastic deal for $649 on Amazon.
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    Image of John_001 John_001
    12/09/09

    In reply to The Best Windows Laptops, From $400 to $1500
    Not one HP laptop. Good!
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