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superhero Feb 6, 2008

it depends. you can find a LOT of cheap laptops out there (best buy, walmart) but in my opinion, the thing that makes/breaks a laptop is dedicated video card RAM (not found in laptops from best buy...

theremin Feb 6, 2008

Very helpful. My laptop when I bought it was a $2500 laptop and I got it for $2000. Very awesome at the time.. But, I can't do something that massive again at this time with other expenses and tr...

superhero superheroOG 2004

my vote is for HP first, Acer 2nd (although I've never seen an Acer with dedicated video RAM). I'd buy a Dell, but never found a deal that worked for me.

interestingly ... there's one kind of Dell (I think the D430 or something) that has a dock with two VGA ports ... multiple monitors are hot

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