Posts by Dead Duck

At worst it's incorrect and at best it's ambiguous. The most precise description he should have used would be: DVD/CD-RW or better yet, DVD-ROM/CD-RW DVD/CD +/- RW would, to me, imply that it writes BOTH DVD+Rs, DVD-Rs, DVD+RWs,...

Well, I think there are a few considerations here: From one perspective, you'll be saving $400+ dollars for the same system. Since you were willing to play $1386 for it, then paying the $812 + 10% from original notebook is a good...

I'd say that for your needs most any of the chips will meet your needs: Pentium 4, Pentium M, or Celeron. The Celeron is a decent chip at a bargain price. Many will say negative things about it, but if you're not planning on doing any...

Grrrr. Too bad there's no way to leave comments on the eBay listing.

Oooh awesome. Thank you. I should have looked there first. Thanks!

Hi everyone, Someone has asked me to help them get the most bang for their buck for $1000. So I'm trying to help them configure a good laptop. She won't be doing any gaming, but I think she'd like a long battery life, so the Celeron...

Unfortunately, the Z-2200's are not portable and require external power. Oh, I didn't mention before that I listened them in a demo at the store and thought they sounded pretty good. The only thing I noticed was that if I brought the...

I noticed that the 1.8 GHz option was removed, too. I wonder if there's a severe backorder of them or something? I couldn't find it on the US site.

Just FYI: The Logitech Z-2200's are being phased out and replaced with the Z-2300's. So far as I can tell, it's same specs, just slightly different look. The suggested retail price of both the 2200s and 2300s is $150. Logitech is...

A little more on the 80 GB drive: I've read on here in earlier posts that the 80 GB 5400 rpm drive will perform almost as good as a 60 GB 7200 rpm as they have the same number of platters and therefore the data is more densely...