Jer

I need to get my wife a laptop. She want's a cool looking one but it also needs to be a powerful one as she uses a 3D program to plan implant cases. Any recomendations? Are these Dell ones that come in different colous any good?

TIA

HankScorpio

I got one of these for under 500 quid the other week
dabs.com - HP Pavilion Artist Edition dv2899ea Core 2 Duo T9300 4096MB 320GB 14.1"WXGA Vista Home Premium (KQ079EA#ABU)

Not really cool, but a bit funky. My mrs loves it and it's got a great spec. (and 14 inch so proper LAP top and portable)

staffs Mike

Dell studio 13 would be good. Small, looks good and powerful everything for a small laptop.

XPS M1530 is another good one for stronger graphics.

MMT WRX

Macbook



My next computer.

scoobymad555

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if money's no object then it's either an Alienware M15x or a Falcon Northwest Fragbook DRX ..... both serious bits of kit but like i said, they're definately money no object laptops

Midlife......

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Jer

Presumably she's using something like "simplant" ??

SimPlant

Just get them to supply the hardware as they make money hand over fist LOL

Shaun

corradoboy

There's not much cooler, except a 17" pro...

SwissTony

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Iain Young

If you have money to burn I suppose, and assuming the 3d software in question has an osx version

Alternatively, get a Windows based laptop which will cost less, and be more powerful

Could do worse than looking at the Dell XPS range. I use my lower spec one for play some games, and 3d modelling in Lightwave, so they will be man enough for the job, and they look pretty good as well.

I'd avoid Alienware at all costs. I made the mistake of buying one of their laptops before. Never again...

corradoboy

Parallels or Bootcamp ! Mac does Windoze too so you can use it IF you need to, then enjoy hassle free pleasant computing the rest of the time

scoobymad555

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whether it's petrol or battery life, performance comes at a price

Iain Young

As I said. Money to burn....

James Neill

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Played around with one of these last week, setting it up for a friend. Very nice machines.

MMT WRX

Your right...sold

Funnily enough I do have one of these as well. Great piece of kit

Iain Young

Definitely got money to burn then

corradoboy

Well, when I bought my Mac it was probably £200 or so dearer than a PC equivalent. However, after 10 years it is still in use every single day. It fried a hard drive once, which was a Godsend as it meant an upgrade from 10gb to 55gb. It also split the ribbon cable on it LG DVD ROM drive, again this was a plus as it now has a DVD-R(W) drive. Everyone I know whom bought similar spec Windoze laptops at the same time are on at least their second, and one his fifth upgrade since Sure, the processor is woefully slow these days and it is long overdue a replacement, but it will be a shiny new iMac. I'm just awaiting the imminent new models arriving I would happily pay 10x the premium not to have to use Windoze

I also use Macs at w*rk and the 10 G4 Quicksilvers there were all around 8 years old when we were forced to upgrade them due to software requirements. Not one had ever seen a technician. Our fleet of hundreds of Dell office PC's have a lifespan averaged at 2 years. We also have 3 servers running Dell Poweredge units which require 24/7 support from Canada, which is used frequently Our two Apple xServes haven't missed a beat in 2 years so far

You pays you money, you takes your chance (whether you pay again, and again and have to suffer Microshaft rubbish).

Jer

Thanks all, I ended up getting her this: HP 6735s Laptop - Laptops at Ebuyer Very good spec for the price.

Iain Young

One of my work pcs is around 10 years old as well. Turned on and used 24x7, and never fried even a single hard drive. Cost considerably less than an Apple at the time as well Ironically, the one Mac I've had to use at work, has proved to be nothing but trouble.

Perhaps they need to buy PCs from better manufacturers.

That's just personal preference. Windows isn't perfect by any means, but personally, I can't stand OSX and prefer the Windows interface.

Yawn, none of my pcs (combinations of Dell, Compaq, and HP - still got an old Elonex as well) have ever seen a technician either. Next....

I'm still using my 5 year old Dell laptop.

We have Dell servers powering our multi-national corporation (UK, USA, Bulgaria, Italy, Japan etc), and they never skip a beat.

The fact that you seem to be unable to mention the names of Microsoft or Windows without childishly changing their names speaks more volumes about the average Apple user than I ever could

SwissTony

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Dave, you just know how to get Iain going dont you

corradoboy

Fun innit

MMT WRX

corradoboy

We do, Apple

Iain Young

Lol - boring day