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Good centrino notebooks that you can pick up from a local computer store?

post #1 of 12
5/4/04 at 4:29pm
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I live in Canada but will be visiting Seattle and maybe Portland later in May. Was wondering if there is any good Centrino laptop that you can pick up simply from a local store such as BB/CC, etc?

I'm looking for a laptop that will be able to play some 3D games, don't play FPS but a machine that's capable of playing World of Warcraft will be nice. So M10 graphic chip at least with 512-1G system ram and a fast RPM hard drive I guess? Budget would be under or around 2K us, any ideas? Thanks!
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post #2 of 12
5/4/04 at 4:37pm
I live in Portland, you know we don't have sales tax here. We have a few Best Buys and Circuit Citys all over. If you know where abouts in Portland you are going, I could tell you the closet to you.
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post #3 of 12
5/4/04 at 8:08pm
hpcompaq nc8000 or 6000. peace.
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post #4 of 12
5/4/04 at 8:48pm
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Originally Posted by grahamisded
hpcompaq nc8000 or 6000. peace.
I have never seen either of these in a local retail store.
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post #5 of 12
5/4/04 at 8:59pm
Just an FYI, even an M9 can handle World of Warcraft with ease. If that's as graphically intense as you can EVER foresee yourself playing than an M10 is not necessary. However, if you want to throw in an fps or be prepared for some other games...then go for the M10 and up.
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post #6 of 12
5/4/04 at 9:24pm
circuit city and best buy both have em.
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post #7 of 12
5/4/04 at 9:38pm
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Originally Posted by grahamisded
circuit city and best buy both have em.
Since when? Don't mean to doubt you, but unless they started carrying HP's business notebooks within the past few days, I don't think so.
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post #8 of 12
5/5/04 at 12:58am
whoops, you know what you're right. they don't have those models but they've got most of the undesirable HPs.
consider me corrected.
why wouldn't you order a computer anyway?
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post #9 of 12
5/5/04 at 4:19am
i wish i lived in portland
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post #10 of 12
5/5/04 at 4:25am
I would say the closest to "decent" is the Toshiba Tecra if you can find it. Compusa may have it.
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post #11 of 12
5/5/04 at 5:19am
Thread Starter 
thanks for all the input. i'll look further
seems not many choices around though.
maybe I have to ask a friend to order one after all.
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post #12 of 12
5/5/04 at 9:12am
acutally best buy does have the toshiba a45 which is blue and pretty good. cnet just reviewed it and liked it.
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