I know theres a few computer guys on here. Ill be needing a laptop for when I go off to college next year. So what are some good laptops I should look into within these boundaries/expectations.

1. MAX budget is 900
2. I want it to be reliable
3. Want something with a good processor
4. at least 60GB of space if not more
5. Good all around notebook to do write papers and stuff on
7. I want it to handle FPS games so anything that can play games such as Unreal Tournament 2004 or Counterstrike CZ on maybe primary resolution and even Half Life 2 on real low settings. I want decent moderate graphics. I dont expect the best but would want to play the occasional games if Im bored.
8. I want new

Does anyone have any evalue codes to use with dell?

Go to one of those "Build Your Own" sections of Dell or HP (or whoever) and find what best fits you for the best price.

I don't think you can expect to play good FPS games on a $900 notebook.

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Go to one of those "Build Your Own" sections of Dell or HP (or whoever) and find what best fits you for the best price.
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Good idea.
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I don't think you can expect to play good FPS games on a $900 notebook.
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So all of them with a integrated graphics wont be able to handle FPS games on low resoultion?

Good luck with that.  anything under $900 is going to be a base system.  My laptop can handle games fairly well but it isn't exceptional and it cost $1300....

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[quote author=CrAz3D link=topic=14912.msg151676#msg151676 date=1146459951]
Go to one of those "Build Your Own" sections of Dell or HP (or whoever) and find what best fits you for the best price.
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Good idea.
[quote author=MyndFyre[vL] link=topic=14912.msg151677#msg151677 date=1146460725]
I don't think you can expect to play good FPS games on a $900 notebook.
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So all of them with a integrated graphics wont be able to handle FPS games on low resoultion?
[/quote] All laptops have integrated graphics, when you are working with that much room everything has to be onboard. But you would want something with mobile ati x something, or mobile nvidia or something. But 900 dolalr notebooks come with SiS integrated graphics, and Intel integrated graphics, and you can use them for practical things, but don't expect to game on them. The idea of a gaming laptop is stupid because it is expencive in not very feasible, if you have this burning desire to game youre going to have to spring for the extra price of a sager, or xps, or upgraded msi, asus, or like acer ferrari or something. You wiill have to pay much more than 900 for something like that.

I have a Packard Bell, 3ghz Pentium 4, 512mb RAM, 40gbHDD, Geforce 5500MX Go GFZ card. It cost £400 which is roughley $900. It was ex display. Try looking for them. Hanst failed on me yet.

You can normaly talk the store owners down in price on their floor models(ones that are on display) also so keep that in mind.

Ill look into the store ones. but people touched them and stuff  :( but heres a great deal but it expires today. nooooo http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?cs=19&kc=07979&oc=d80412j&x=5&y=7

Colleges often get great discounts...I know that Drexel (which I'm blabbing about a lot) has deals with companies (IBM, Gateway, Mac, HP, Dell, and some others) which drop about $600 off the base.

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1. MAX budget is 900
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Ouch.

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2. I want it to be reliable
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Especially with laptops which aren't all that fast in the first place, I really have to stress the gospel message here.. "LINUX LOVES YOU."

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3. Want something with a good processor
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See #2.

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4. at least 60GB of space if not more
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Seems standard now. Shouldn't be hard to come by.

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5. Good all around notebook to do write papers and stuff on
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That'll be insanely easy with anything even semi-modern. =)

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7. I want it to handle FPS games so anything that can play games such as Unreal Tournament 2004 or Counterstrike CZ on maybe primary resolution and even Half Life 2 on real low settings. I want decent moderate graphics. I dont expect the best but would want to play the occasional games if Im bored.
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For $900 all you can do is pray.

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8. I want new
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Refer to 7.

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Does anyone have any evalue codes to use with dell?
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Nope.

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I know theres a few computer guys on here. Ill be needing a laptop for when I go off to college next year. So what are some good laptops I should look into within these boundaries/expectations.

1. MAX budget is 900
2. I want it to be reliable
3. Want something with a good processor
4. at least 60GB of space if not more
5. Good all around notebook to do write papers and stuff on
7. I want it to handle FPS games so anything that can play games such as Unreal Tournament 2004 or Counterstrike CZ on maybe primary resolution and even Half Life 2 on real low settings. I want decent moderate graphics. I dont expect the best but would want to play the occasional games if Im bored.
8. I want new

Does anyone have any evalue codes to use with dell?
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If you want it to handle FPS games, it's going to be rather heavy - if you're not planning on bringing it to class, cafes, etc to do work, then get a Shuttle.

Take a look at this, lots of great discounts.

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Colleges often get great discounts...I know that Drexel (which I'm blabbing about a lot) has deals with companies (IBM, Gateway, Mac, HP, Dell, and some others) which drop about $600 off the base.
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Hmm Im not sure about my college and giving discounts. I will double check.

[quote author=Topaz link=topic=14912.msg151840#msg151840 date=1146612589]

If you want it to handle FPS games, it's going to be rather heavy - if you're not planning on bringing it to class, cafes, etc to do work, then get a Shuttle.

Take a look at this, lots of great discounts.
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I guess playing games but thats ok. Thanks Topaz.  I need are those discount codes for Dells since Im leaning towards them.

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I know theres a few computer guys on here. Ill be needing a laptop for when I go off to college next year. So what are some good laptops I should look into within these boundaries/expectations.

1. MAX budget is 900
2. I want it to be reliable
3. Want something with a good processor
4. at least 60GB of space if not more
5. Good all around notebook to do write papers and stuff on
7. I want it to handle FPS games so anything that can play games such as Unreal Tournament 2004 or Counterstrike CZ on maybe primary resolution and even Half Life 2 on real low settings. I want decent moderate graphics. I dont expect the best but would want to play the occasional games if Im bored.
8. I want new

Does anyone have any evalue codes to use with dell?
[/quote]

If you want it to handle FPS games, it's going to be rather heavy - if you're not planning on bringing it to class, cafes, etc to do work, then get a Shuttle.

Take a look at this, lots of great discounts.
[/quote] Or just find a good atx micro board and build the thing yourself a nice tiny flex, multimedia, etc case and get the same form factor for fraction of the price.

My girlfriend just bought a laptop (less than two weeks ago) for when she goes away to college. It was a gateway 7118 or something like that. I can get exact information if interested, this is from memory. It was $750 new, athlon 64, 512mb ram, 80gb HD, radeon x500, came with xp media center edition on it.

go to like the Dell outlet.  They sell the custom made computers that people return for mucho mucho cheap.

http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StaplesProductDisplay?prodCatType=1&storeId=10001&noredir=true&catalogId=10051&langId=-1&productId=145496&cmArea=spotlight

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You should get a toughbook.  They're a little above your specified pricerange (probably start around $3000), but they're so cool!  They're used by police and military and stuff.  :)

My mum dropped mine and it isnt a ToughBook and it diddnt break. No need to fork out for a toughbook.

My reccomendation is acer. I paid 999 about a year ago for my acer aspire. It has been great. It has 512 pc-2700 ddr, a 80gig hd, and 1.6ghz Amd Turion Proc (1mb l2 cahce). This laptop can't game too much because it is running SiS integrated graphics, but for all general computing it performs as well as my desktop (p4 2.6 w/ ht). It has been a wonderful little laptop. It is fairly light so it's not bad to take to class, though I do kinda wish I had gotten one of those really tiny laptops just because they fit into a backpack so much easier. I guess when I bought it something with a normal 15 inch screen was more appealing to me. But it has been a very stable system and it performs very nicely. Battery life is 3hrs generally, unplugged clock speed is 800mhz, I never notice a performance difference though since I am not doing anything too intensive on this.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16834115328
same laptop now one year later with double the ram, a 20gig more hard drive capacitym and the graphics have evolved a bit for the same price - a rebate putting it right at your price range (but that is for today only).

http://www.edealinfo.com/dell/

I saw Andy (Stealth) post this a while back, should help you out.

Thanks guys I bought a Dell E1505 dual core, 1 gb ram , and 100gb hard drive for $777. Pretty nice.

Watch out..it might be one of the exploding ones...

I would've went for a MacBook, I have one and it is perfect, and runs windows like a champ. Although it is over your budget, its worth it.