Hi all,
I have been going through all the Asus, Dell, Acer etc info on notebooks.....
Is there at all a notebook with the following specifications on the market? I would be grateful for a solution.
I am looking for:
MUSTS:
- either Pentium M or Turion (as long as the Turion can be forced into powersaving with little no/fan activity - not like the Acer Ferrari 4000)
- widescreen 14 or 15.4" with at least 1400, better 1650 pixels wide. no need for it to be glossy.
- Bluetooth, wlan
- DVI output on notebook (or HDMI for that matter but that is probably even more unlikely) !
- DEDICATED buttons on case for: Bluetooth, Wlan, Mute!!, volume up/down and possibly brightness up/down
- card reader: ms, ms pro, sd, mmc
- standard mutliformat dvd reader
- I would even settle for x600-like VGA card, better x700-like though.
- a swappable bay to add another battery to lengthen battery use time
- microphone
- little/no noise in idle mode - i.e. surfing the web. It is fully OK for the fan to kick in in gaming/performance applications.
- 100MB drive
NICE TO HAVE's:
- solid case (whatever that means)
- 100MB SATA !! drive
- a special trackpad with extra buttons for scrolling through docs/browsers - like for example the acer rocker pad between the two "mouse" buttons.
- well, actually lit keyboard like on the apple powerbooks would make pay $500 more. I love it, but need a "PC" notebook. Some of the IBMs have an LED on top that you can switch on, but I have yet to see something elegant like the bigger keyboard lit powerbooks on a PC notebook.
I had the Acer Ferrari 4005 - had it all but the dedicated mute/volume buttons (I could have lived with that), but has a rudimentary bios and the fan runs with the Turion at 35 degrees C and never turns on - totally stupid.
I like the apple powerbooks, but unfurtunately it is Mac OS and I have to many wintel only application I have to use.
Happy for feedback
- isotrop
PS: Swapped an Acer Ferrai 4005 for an Asus M6VA because of fan noise.
I have been going through all the Asus, Dell, Acer etc info on notebooks.....
Is there at all a notebook with the following specifications on the market? I would be grateful for a solution.
I am looking for:
MUSTS:
- either Pentium M or Turion (as long as the Turion can be forced into powersaving with little no/fan activity - not like the Acer Ferrari 4000)
- widescreen 14 or 15.4" with at least 1400, better 1650 pixels wide. no need for it to be glossy.
- Bluetooth, wlan
- DVI output on notebook (or HDMI for that matter but that is probably even more unlikely) !
- DEDICATED buttons on case for: Bluetooth, Wlan, Mute!!, volume up/down and possibly brightness up/down
- card reader: ms, ms pro, sd, mmc
- standard mutliformat dvd reader
- I would even settle for x600-like VGA card, better x700-like though.
- a swappable bay to add another battery to lengthen battery use time
- microphone
- little/no noise in idle mode - i.e. surfing the web. It is fully OK for the fan to kick in in gaming/performance applications.
- 100MB drive
NICE TO HAVE's:
- solid case (whatever that means)
- 100MB SATA !! drive
- a special trackpad with extra buttons for scrolling through docs/browsers - like for example the acer rocker pad between the two "mouse" buttons.
- well, actually lit keyboard like on the apple powerbooks would make pay $500 more. I love it, but need a "PC" notebook. Some of the IBMs have an LED on top that you can switch on, but I have yet to see something elegant like the bigger keyboard lit powerbooks on a PC notebook.
I had the Acer Ferrari 4005 - had it all but the dedicated mute/volume buttons (I could have lived with that), but has a rudimentary bios and the fan runs with the Turion at 35 degrees C and never turns on - totally stupid.
I like the apple powerbooks, but unfurtunately it is Mac OS and I have to many wintel only application I have to use.
Happy for feedback
- isotrop
PS: Swapped an Acer Ferrai 4005 for an Asus M6VA because of fan noise.
