[geeks] Best laptop for $3K max

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Francois Dion <francois.dion at gmail.com>
>Date: 2007/10/31 Wed AM 05:59:21 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Best laptop for $3K max

>On 10/30/07, Francois Dion <francois.dion at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is more geek than rescue, although there's an interesting laptop
>> discussion over there.
>>
>> Anyway, I've been looking at a few laptops. I thought I wanted a
>> precision M6300 but it's a bit too big. The M4300 seems more what I'm
>> looking for. Actually the XPS would have been good too, but the M1330
>> just has a pathetic resolution and M1730 is too big. Too bad they dont
>> make an M1530.
>>
>> So anyway, I'm looking at the M4300. just a tad less than $3000 MSRP:
>
>What about the Lenovo T61 15 wide 6459CTO. Resolution is again 1680,
>at least not 1440x900. But even with 4GB, a T7800 (2.6GHz), nvidia
>quadro fx570m etc... it only comes to a little over $2300! So if I go
>with 1600 class resolution, this seems to be the ticket, and with
>1920, the Dell M4300.
>
>Any owner of T61 out there?

Check out the Lenovo Outlet, they have very nice T7700 laptops for $1000 - 1500, with various screens and graphics options. The nicest laptops (CPU/Graphics/Screen combo) may not have the memory/disk you want, but at *half* (or less) of your price ceiling, there is plenty of $$ to upgrade the RAM/HD.

http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/special-offers.workflow:ShowPromo?LandingPage=/All/US/Portals/Lenovo_Outlet/T-Series

They are also having a sale, up to 25% off, new build-to-order laptops including the T61 you are interested in...

Lionel