# Decent laptop? **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [August 23, 2004, 9:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/decent-laptop/61978 "2004-08-23T21:08:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![macneilslt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@macneilslt](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/macneilslt)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 9:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/decent-laptop/61978/1 "2004-08-23T21:08:30Z")
Hey, i’m in the market for a laptop $2000 or less, so far i’m leaning towards this abs mayhem g1, except with a gig of ram, [http://www.abspc.com/app/Series.asp?familyno=25&series=76](http://www.abspc.com/app/Series.asp?familyno=25&series=76) anyone have any suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 9:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/decent-laptop/61978/2 "2004-08-23T21:42:34Z")
and it needs to be beastly with games and be able to handle the latest multimedia suites such as MM Studio and Adobe junk. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 10:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/decent-laptop/61978/3 "2004-08-23T22:11:39Z")
i have an acer aspire 2000 and i use it for flahsmx2004, photoshop, illustrator, 3dsmax, solidworks, maya, premiere and im a very happy man! widescreen too ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 10:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/decent-laptop/61978/4 "2004-08-23T22:21:56Z")
That laptop looks really nice mac! The 9700 gfx will be excellent for most gaming 🙂 The price is also very reasonable. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 11:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/decent-laptop/61978/5 "2004-08-23T23:15:10Z")
I have an IBM T41p with high capacity battery (8 hours maximal batterytime), and it rocks :thumb: ideal for quite anything (silent, not too big or heavy, fast, good graphics, superior display,…) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 3:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/decent-laptop/61978/6 "2004-08-24T03:54:34Z")
that’s a decent one man. i equip myself with toshiba S255 [or something i forgot] bought it like a year ago… so kinda slow i guess… but it’s really reliable as long as you know how to take care of it. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 7:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/decent-laptop/61978/7 "2004-08-24T07:05:49Z")
That’s a nice laptop, though the 4200 RPM is really low. Today, the standard is 7200 RPM, there is even a HD out there (the Western Digital Raptor) that rotates at 10.000 RPM. The standard before 7200 RPM was 5400 RPM (or something in the 5000 at least, can’t remember), but 4200 RPM is even below that. In other words, the HD is very slow. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 7:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/decent-laptop/61978/8 "2004-08-24T07:44:12Z")
> [@Voetsjoeba](#): > > That’s a nice laptop, though the 4200 RPM is really low. Today, the standard is 7200 RPM, there is even a HD out there (the Western Digital Raptor) that rotates at 10.000 RPM. The standard before 7200 RPM was 5400 RPM (or something in the 5000 at least, can’t remember), but 4200 RPM is even below that. > > In other words, the HD is very slow. just to let you know there is faster than 10000 also voets… and has been for a long time;) SCSI not to many laptops come with over 4200 right now either because of size restraints… but that laptop looks pretty decent. I would also look at the new widescreen toshibas as well. There really solid and toshiba always makes good machines. I have a widescreen vpr with a 512 ddr 3100 and a really good vid card and it rocks! For it being a year old it really isnt beat buy anything brand new 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 8:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/decent-laptop/61978/9 "2004-08-24T08:22:11Z")
Well yeah, SCSI, but that’s another category 🙂