Laptops Best Suited?

Odin · 05-19-2004

Hello

I'm saving up for a laptop over the summer and putting all that money into wardriving.

I'm a long time PC user [Windows], but I know nothing about laptops or any of the sort :\. Are there any suggestions on what to get? I need some speed preferbly above 2.0ghz a decent amt. of memory [at least 512mb] and a decent graphics card [above 128mb].

I think it might be too pricey :\

Any suggestions of any brand I don't care. As long as I can play CS and DAoC and wardrive with it

I might be asking in the wrong place but I'm tired of lurking

iceburn68 · 05-19-2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by Odin

Hello

I'm saving up for a laptop over the summer and putting all that money into wardriving.

I'm a long time PC user [Windows], but I know nothing about laptops or any of the sort :\. Are there any suggestions on what to get? I need some speed preferbly above 2.0ghz a decent amt. of memory [at least 512mb] and a decent graphics card [above 128mb].

I think it might be too pricey :\

Any suggestions of any brand I don't care. As long as I can play CS and DAoC and wardrive with it

I might be asking in the wrong place but I'm tired of lurking

Try the "hardware" department . . . and now you know, laptops are considered hardware, now you can't say you "know nothing about laptops" . . .

wrzwaldo · 05-19-2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by Odin

Hello

I'm saving up for a laptop over the summer and putting all that money into wardriving.

I'm a long time PC user [Windows], but I know nothing about laptops or any of the sort :\. Are there any suggestions on what to get? I need some speed preferbly above 2.0ghz a decent amt. of memory [at least 512mb] and a decent graphics card [above 128mb].

I think it might be too pricey :\

Any suggestions of any brand I don't care. As long as I can play CS and DAoC and wardrive with it

I might be asking in the wrong place but I'm tired of lurking

Yeah sorry the forum descriptions are not that descriptive! Join Date: 05-18-2004, Damn you must have the lurking record!!!

The Others · 05-19-2004

I suggest using that money to go on holiday.

Put aside a couple of hundred dollars to buy a piece o' crap laptop that just about runs windows; it will run Netstumbler perfectly. Kismet too, if you so desire to go down that route.

Big, flashy laptops are for people with too much money. You should take the figure you first proposed for your video cards memory, devide it by some number, and use that figure as your system ram. If you want a poncy laptop, buy a Mac, they're much better than an expensive wintel job.

/The Others comes over all "cyprus hill"...

"Save yo money man, save yo money. Keep stacking those chips up when yo' hot, cause when you not, get out of the mother loving drug game"

kleptophobiac · 05-20-2004

My IBM T41p was rather expensive, but by no means is it "flashy"

Gets the job done quickly and quietly. Then again, it isn't exactly wintel either.

Odin · 05-21-2004

note taken.

i think im gonna go VAIO or an 12'' powerbook

Dutch · 05-22-2004

Heck, no need for all that speed...

I do my stumbling with an old Dell Latitude CP laptop, 233 Mhz Pentium MMX processor, 96 Mb Ram, Windows XP, and it works just fine.

Instead of having the CD-rom drive in the second bay, I have an extra battery slotted in, and while wardriving, the lid is down, so no power is drained by the screen. Gives me about 4,5 hours of stumbling time.

No need to go out and buy the latest, greatest, most flashy laptop on the block..

Just my 0.02€'s worth

Dutch

nleahcim · 05-22-2004

as long as it has either a mini-pci slot or a pmcia slot you'll be allright. It would be alot better if it supported Linux - then you could run various other wifi related programs on it as well. Good luck!

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Odin Marching Two By Two Join Date: May 2004 Location: NE Posts: 2	Laptops Best Suited? Hello I'm saving up for a laptop over the summer and putting all that money into wardriving. I'm a long time PC user [Windows], but I know nothing about laptops or any of the sort :\. Are there any suggestions on what to get? I need some speed preferbly above 2.0ghz a decent amt. of memory [at least 512mb] and a decent graphics card [above 128mb]. I think it might be too pricey :\ Any suggestions of any brand I don't care. As long as I can play CS and DAoC and wardrive with it I might be asking in the wrong place but I'm tired of lurking __________________ /dev/null

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The Others PeaceDriver Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Dos Palabras, Mandoras Posts: 2,920	I suggest using that money to go on holiday. Put aside a couple of hundred dollars to buy a piece o' crap laptop that just about runs windows; it will run Netstumbler perfectly. Kismet too, if you so desire to go down that route. Big, flashy laptops are for people with too much money. You should take the figure you first proposed for your video cards memory, devide it by some number, and use that figure as your system ram. If you want a poncy laptop, buy a Mac, they're much better than an expensive wintel job. /The Others comes over all "cyprus hill"... "Save yo money man, save yo money. Keep stacking those chips up when yo' hot, cause when you not, get out of the mother loving drug game" __________________ all good ends all ?u=273

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Odin Marching Two By Two Join Date: May 2004 Location: NE Posts: 2	note taken. i think im gonna go VAIO or an 12'' powerbook __________________ /dev/null

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05-20-2004	#5 (permalink)
kleptophobiac Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 310	My IBM T41p was rather expensive, but by no means is it "flashy" Gets the job done quickly and quietly. Then again, it isn't exactly wintel either.

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Dutch Humourless EuroMod. Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: City of Mermaids, Denmark Posts: 6,819	Heck, no need for all that speed... I do my stumbling with an old Dell Latitude CP laptop, 233 Mhz Pentium MMX processor, 96 Mb Ram, Windows XP, and it works just fine. Instead of having the CD-rom drive in the second bay, I have an extra battery slotted in, and while wardriving, the lid is down, so no power is drained by the screen. Gives me about 4,5 hours of stumbling time. No need to go out and buy the latest, greatest, most flashy laptop on the block.. Just my 0.02€'s worth Dutch

05-22-2004	#8 (permalink)
nleahcim Unregistered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 133	as long as it has either a mini-pci slot or a pmcia slot you'll be allright. It would be alot better if it supported Linux - then you could run various other wifi related programs on it as well. Good luck!