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Highly recommended.
I spent a month doing research on ALL brands of laptop - Apple, IBM, Dell,
Acer, Compaq, Fujitsu, Sony to name a few - HP came out on top.
Dell doesn't offer 17inch screens at a reasonable cost, neither does
Fujitsu. Sony limits you to "Memory Stick" media - I use SD so that's out.
Apple is, well, Apple. I've owned 15 Macs. I couldn't justify another with
what you can do with Windows XP for less $.
I have a Pavilion ZD7260. The ONLY thing you get jumping up one notch to the
7380 is Windows Media Center, a remote control and a TV tuner I believe.
It also has a 5400rpm drive instead of the 4200rpm and 1gb of RAM instead of
512mb.
I was concerned the 4200 rpm drive would be a bottleneck for the work I do:
video editing. NO PROBLEMS to date. The drive throughput has kept up so far
using the Firewire port to take in Digital8 and I don't see major slow downs
in Premiere Pro.
I upped the RAM to 1gb and I recommend that to anyone doing intensive
graphic work.
Something of note: the 7260 and 7380 are the only 17 inch models I know of
to offer SXGA+ screens: 1680 by 1050 native resolution.
If you're working with the Adobe suite or other production applications, the
screen real-estate is vital. I couldn't do what I do on a 1400x900 screen or
"WXGA" which many models offer.
My 2 cents. Good luck.
Chris
"Ryan" <ryanp@ungerboeck.com> wrote in message
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>I am looking at a HP 17 inch screen laptop with 3.2 ghz, 512, 64
> video, 80 gig at 4200....
>
> what do you all think about that configuration at 1899?
>
> any other suggestions? I want a 17 inch screen with the new bright
> screens... are there any other players I should look at? Any other
> suggestions?
>
> Ryan