mine broke recently, and it will apparently cost over $300 to repair. since there is no point in wasting that much on a 2 year old crappy laptop, I though I might as well buy a new one. I have been searching for over an hour now, but can't find anything decent with my limited budget.

Budget: ~$700 CAD, will go up to $800
Display: 15.4, larger prefered
HDD: 80 gb is fine
CPU: 1.8GHz or more, 64bit, dual core (preferably amd)
RAM: 1gb is fine
DVD: Dual dvd burner
Mem Card Reader: n/a
Webcam: n/a
GPU: Something that will run compiz
Audio: crappy onboard is fine
Modem: Preferably
WLAN: b/g
USB: Minimum 3 ports
OS: preferably none

Other: nothing too fat or ugly, and preferably not online either. shipping is expensive and i hate waiting for the package.

The closest thing I found is this, but its a 32bit intel @ 1.6ghz. otherwise very good

this site will let you pick options for each component (like you've listed) in a very easy manner

while you may not be able to buy off it (it's an English site) it will let you find suitable laptops which you can then find in a shop or on a website in the country you live in

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Originally posted by Supersonicdarky
GPU: Something that will run compiz

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why would you want something that could run some inferior linux product when you're going to be using the superior OS, Windows?

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Also, why an 64bit processor when you're going to have only 1GB of RAM?

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Originally posted by Mike
Also, why an 64bit processor when you're going to have only 1GB of RAM?

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Originally posted by Vilkku
Even if he has a 64bit processor it doesn't mean he will use a 64bit OS (I for example have a 64bit processor with 2GB of ram, and I suppose you are referring to the 4GB limit of 32bit operating systems). Many of the processors today are 64bit even if they are used with 32bit operating systems.

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He said he would prefer AMD, doesn't have to be.

Anyway, I can't help you much, but try going for HP or Toshiba maybe.. At least from experience, HP ain't bad with laptops at all. (Vista is a freakin' pain though, so good luck trying to get rid of it for Linux)

Laptops that are preinstalled with Vista (or some other Microsoft crap OS) may have a hard time or impossible to put a different OS on it. HP doesn't have that restriction, I know that much.. I plan to go back to XP for a while before I give Linux a go. Just a tip: make a recovery disc as a safe precaution.

HP Compaq 6510b no dual dvd burner though

http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=27670

http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=27312

Overlooking both, they seem to have almost everything you want (like 2USB instead of 3 etc...)

Both look good

PS: Give me your old laptop, I'll try and fix it

HP Pavilion dv6700z series

Found that while looking through HP's entertainment section. If it's still too expensive, HP has a ton of more choices on other laptops. Although, the one I linked you too is somewhat customizable, so you can change the parts on it to what you want.

At any rate, that's just what I found, so there's more choices out there.

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He said he would prefer AMD

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He said he would prefer AMD

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why would he prefer AMD?

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why would he prefer AMD?

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if you budgeted ~$1500, get one of those nice HP laptops with a huge screen

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why would he prefer AMD?

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Your guess is as good as mine, I personally prefer Intel myself over AMD.

As for 64-bit technology, I'd have no use for it at the moment. I still hear some drivers and programs don't run properly on 64-bit for whatever reason. (only on a 64-bit OS though, not 32-bit)

Many options for a laptop, it's just a matter of piecing them together to get what you want, for whatever use out of them. Each person has their preference to what they want in a computer.

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http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=27670

http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=27312

Overlooking both, they seem to have almost everything you want (like 2USB instead of 3 etc...)

Both look good

PS: Give me your old laptop, I'll try and fix it

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Couple friends of mine experienced AMD for themselves and quite a bit of their processors overheated. Plus, they told me that AMD is mainly for gaming and not necessarily good at multi-tasking. That's what they told me.

Me personally, I've not had any problems with Intel at all. Grant it though, their celerons suck horribly.. even my P3 (600 MHz at the time) outclassed the Celeron 800 MHz by a long shot.

By the time 64bit takes over 32bit the processor will be out of date anyway

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why do you prefer intel? just because. same with amd for me. and it seems like amd has more 64bit processors than intel (don't quote me on that though). And speaking of 64bit, it's because it's the future, like 32bit surpassed 16, 64 will eventually surpass 32. Buying a 64bit cpu will just help it progress.

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