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I'm looking to acquire a laptop for graphic design. Suggestions? Right now leaning towards an Intel, hence Dell but any other good sites out there for perhaps an AMD-based if I chose to move in that direction?
 

killernotebooks

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How's a Core Duo T2500 2.0 Ghz
17" 7900 GTX 256 MB either SXGA+ or UWXGA for graphics design?

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I bought a Gateway P-6831 FX laptop from best buy for $1250, here are the specs
Core 2 1.67 ghz, 3 Gig DDR2 Ram, 250 GIG SATA Drive, 17 Inch 1440x900 Screen, Bluetooth, Firewire, 5 in 1 media reader, Vista Home Premium, DVDRW, NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800 GTS 512 MEG (beats 8700 and 7950 by quite a bit), and it came with my choice free game.
CPU is P Socket and is highly upgradeable, and with 3 gigs ram (runnning dual channel) seems like a great system for less than $1300 bucks... The 8800 GTS from what I have heard smokes the 7900GTX even in sli...
 

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you can find some places that sell "whitebox" laptops.

these are a generic laptop minus CPU, Memory, HDD, and probably WiFi and bluetooth. you just buy em seperate and add em in yourself.

for good graphics for a good price, I'd look at Sager.

but stricly GD, get a Gateway C-140. they are a 14" convertable Tablet that uses a Wacom pressure sensative pen. I loved mine with the no-longer availiable ATI 2300HD graphics. now they are all x3100, still not bad. Lenovo makes something similar.
 

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stripped down = oem cheaper, optioned = cheaper to do it yourself.

I priced a dell recently, looked like a good deal, but to go from 2gigs to 4 gigs, they wanted $300!!! vs. the $80 it would cost you to buy the memory yourself and through away thier chips. CPUs and HDD are a similar story