Nov19
New Laptop Search
on November 19, 2009 at 16:20Since my laptop screen cracked months ago I’ve been waiting for Windows 7 to come out so I could get a new laptop, this will very likely be the laptop I take cruising as my personal machine. I’ll probably have a dedicated machine at the nav station. Here’s what I’m looking for feature-wise and some quick searching I did. If you have any suggestion lets me know…
Must Have
- Multi-Touch Screen
- Multi-Touch Touchpad
- Minimum 4GB RAM
- Minimum 300GB Storage
- 64 Bit
- Wifi
Optional
- Built-in GPS
- Tablet format
- SDD system drive
- 3G
Light Research
- Dell
- Studio 17 – Not yet shipping, Unclear about Multi-touch monitor or touch pad, but claims it as optional
- Asus – Wow what a horrible web site…
- Lenovo
- IdeaPad U550 – 374955U $800 – multitouch
- ThinkPad T400s – Way exoensive, small drive multitouch
- Toshiba
- Protege Tablets – Touch, no 64bit
- Satellite Pro U500-EZ1311 32bit – $1000
- Acer
- Aspire 5738
- AS5738PG-6306 – Touch, 4gb TAM, 15.6”, 64bit – $770 on B&H
- Aspire 5738
- HP
- TX2 – TX2Z – 12.1” Tablet PC – Has all features when customized for $964
- Fujitsu
- T5010 – 13.3" screen Tablet PC – Not sure about 64bit. $2300 (eek)
Hey Patrick,
It’s not on your radar at all, but I have to rave about our Panasonic Toughbook for the onboard nav machine. The durability is such great peace of mind! It’s been subjected to some rough stuff (mostly by our children, ironically) and never given us a problem. We do have a second machine, not a Toughbook, that is our media player and most other things… but I love the durability of the Toughie. I also really appreciated the great customer service- when our DVD drive started acting funny at 1.5 years into ownership, it was replaced and shipped to us: no cost, no questions asked.
That is a good Suggestion Behan.