Laptoptastic

LegionnairedLegionnaired Join Date: 2002-04-30 Member: 552Members, Constellation
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Right, so I just started this program where I take some college classes, take some high school classes, and the state picks up the bill for all of it.

Win.

However, I'm taking about 4 pages a day of notes in college, not counting HS stuff, so I was thinking about picking up a cheap laptop for note-taking, gaming-in-calculus Lecture activities. Since I'm inherantly bad at organizing my things, I tend to let these pages of notes end up everywhere.

However, "cheap" and "laptop" don't go together well. At all.

Does anyone know if it's possible to build a laptop in the same way that one builds a computer, or if it's economically feasible to do so? I have a vision of a stainless-steel laptop beast, but I want to know if it's worth my while to do that sort of thing.

Any relevant commentary would be appriciated.
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  • SloppyKissesSloppyKisses omgawd a furreh! Virginia Join Date: 2003-07-05 Member: 17942Members, Constellation
    I have never heard of anyone building a laptop.
    No.
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  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    If you want a laptop for school, rather than gaming, then I recommend getting the laptop I have:

    Toshiba Satellite A45-S121
    - 2.8ghz Celeron
    - 256MB RAM
    - 40 GB Hard Drive
    - 24x CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive
    - 15" XGA Display and Intel Extreme Graphics with 32MB Shared Memory
    - 56Kbps Modem and 10/100 Ethernet
    - 4 USB 2.0 Ports and 1 PCMCIA slot

    Normally retails about $1,000 but every 2 weeks or so Best Buy has a sale where they are $750 after mail-in rebate. And if you qualify for their stupid credit card you may be able to get no interest for 16 months, which is what I did cause I'm a cheap bastard who hates paying interest. :P


    I love me laptop. It plays all DVDs, AVIs, Divxs, etc flawlessly, the sound is decent enough, and it runs Fedora Core 2 linux like a charm. In fact, Linux is the primary OS for my laptop, I do still have XP Home on there for dual booting, which the laptop handles very well.

    Some people complain that there's no built in wireless, but you can buy a D-Link 802.11g wireless pcmcia card for like $30 now, so that's not really a big deal.

    The 4 USB ports are nice too. 2 are on the left side, and 2 in the back.
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  • WhiteZeroWhiteZero That Guy Join Date: 2004-06-24 Member: 29511Members, Constellation
    Indeed, you cant build your own laptop. Gotta buy one.
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  • RuByRuBy Join Date: 2002-12-12 Member: 10732Members
    how about one of those Pocket PCs? You can probably take some notes with that and transfer them to your desktop computer if that's an option. It would be much cheaper and probably would work just as well.
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  • LegionnairedLegionnaired Join Date: 2002-04-30 Member: 552Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-RuBy+Sep 25 2004, 03:57 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (RuBy @ Sep 25 2004, 03:57 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> how about one of those Pocket PCs? You can probably take some notes with that and transfer them to your desktop computer if that's an option. It would be much cheaper and probably would work just as well. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Great idea, found a Palm and Keyboard for about $200 at Bust Buy.

    Not bad, thanks.
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  • RuByRuBy Join Date: 2002-12-12 Member: 10732Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Legionnaired+Sep 25 2004, 04:37 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Legionnaired @ Sep 25 2004, 04:37 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-RuBy+Sep 25 2004, 03:57 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (RuBy @ Sep 25 2004, 03:57 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> how about one of those Pocket PCs? You can probably take some notes with that and transfer them to your desktop computer if that's an option. It would be much cheaper and probably would work just as well. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Great idea, found a Palm and Keyboard for about $200 at Bust Buy.

    Not bad, thanks. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Glad I could help! If you haven't yet settled on something in particular you might want to check out some of these <a href='http://reviews.cnet.com/4502-3127_7-0.html?tag=pageNav&orderby=-7eRating&qt=&100021id=7784118&500016id=&500053id=&500031id=&500218id=&1000036id=' target='_blank'>reviews</a>.
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