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which notebook and which external LCD ?

post #1 of 8
10/27/04 at 8:36pm
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Hi there, I really need help … I’ve saved up for the last 2 years to buy the best notebook on the market for 3000 British Pounds (I’m torn between the Dell 9100, 8600, D800 and M60) and another 1000 British Pounds on an external LCD monitor of at least 20 inches. I need such a big monitor because I want to have 2x A4 size documents open side-by-side. I’ve spend the better part of 2 months ‘researching’ on this but I guess I’m more confused!!

I spend a lot of time starring at the screen writing documents on Microsoft Word , and quite often I get eye strain.
A friend told me to invest heavily on the best graphic card and best LCD monitor that will deliver crystal-clear, sharp text . My idea is to buy one of the notebooks mentioned above and attach it to an external LCD monitor such as the Eizo L885. I was told that the Eizo L885 is the best monitor for text work … is this true ?? Also, I would like to play games and watch movies. For me the most important is clear, sharp text … so the graphics card and monitor are the 2 most important criteria.

I was told that the M60 comes with a ‘128MB nVidia Quadro FX Go1000 Graphics Card’ which is good for CAD work (so I presume that if it can handle CAD, then it should breeze over simple tasks like handling text and games. Is this card better than the:
256MB ATI Mobility Radeon 9800 (8x AGP),
128MB ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (8x AGP),
128MB ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro Turbo (4x AGP),
64MB NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 4X AGP,
128MB NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650 4x AGP.

Are the 15.4 inch WUXGA on the dell notebooks good … I heard that they are not ‘gloss’

Also, I found that if you order under ‘small-business’ then its much cheaper than if you order under ‘home & home-office’ … I customized a 8600 first as a ‘home-user’ and then as a ‘small-business’ to the same exact specification (so the 2 notebooks were identical) but there was at least a £400 price gap … what’s going on???
Please help… sarah
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post #2 of 8
10/27/04 at 8:44pm
The Eizo L885 is an excellent LCD, definitely one of the best you can buy in its class, but it costs like 3 times more than other LCDs of the same size and specs. If you have the money and the desire to spend it all, go for it.

As for the video card in the laptop, if you are doing work the quadro will be fine, for games nothing beats the Mobility 9800 pro at the moment. Your decision of video card will kinda decide what laptop you can get and vice versa. So try to think ahead what kind of usage is more important to you.
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post #3 of 8
10/27/04 at 9:16pm
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Thanx Gnome, but is there a LCD of the same spec as the Eizo L885 and if so which?
Is the '128MB nVidia Quadro FX Go1000 Graphics Card’ the best for text or is there something better than this for text. I heard that this card is really for CAD work and not text.
Isn't the 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon 9800 (8x AGP) better for text (and games and movies)??
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post #4 of 8
10/27/04 at 10:41pm
The Radeon 9800 is the best card you can get in a notebook right now. In a month new PCI-E notebooks will be out...

Any graphics card from the ATI 9200 up will be able to handle text perfectly. In all seriousness, you don't need a top of the line GPU. I would look for the smallest notebook you can find so that it is portable and can still connect to your monitor. You can also think about getting a 17" notebook... like the Sager 8790 and Sager 4750...
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post #5 of 8
10/27/04 at 11:16pm
well if you are going dell you may as well get a dell 2001fp lcd costs less than half of the eizo, and a lot of people say its good.
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post #6 of 8
10/28/04 at 12:42am
2000 pound should get you a hell of a laptop. If you plan on moving around alot, get a Centrino with Dothan 2.0 and MR9700. If it stationary most of the time, then nothing beats a XPS with MR9800. spend a bit more on the LCD and get a HP Widescreen 23". Although I do like my Viewsonic 20" and Dell 2000fp, the 23" HP is awesome.
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post #7 of 8
10/28/04 at 1:43am
I didn't read this thread but I don't think you should post the same question in 7 different forums. It's just rude.
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post #8 of 8
10/28/04 at 4:47am
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Originally Posted by Wiz33
2000 pound should get you a hell of a laptop. If you plan on moving around alot, get a Centrino with Dothan 2.0 and MR9700. If it stationary most of the time, then nothing beats a XPS with MR9800
Ditto on that.

If you're on the move a lot, have a look at the Acer 8006 Series, I can highly recomend those.

The Dell 20" TFT is an excellent screen, it can compete with the Eizo, but nothing can compete it's price, so I would say, go for it.
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