Expert: Bobbert - 12/31/2008

Question
QUESTION: Hello,
I want to get a notebook or a laptop that I can use to do research for school and stuff so I need a lot of memory but I also want to able to have my itunes working and not slow my computer down. I also want to be able to play videogames on it with out making it slow or just not work. Thanks for the help!

ANSWER: Any sort of budget? Operating system preference? What video games are we talking about here? What kind of applications are you running for research? (Scientific computing, visualization/simulation, medical imaging, CAS, CAD/CAM, design automation, etc)

-bob


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QUESTION: The budget isn't really an issue sure it would be nice if it's price was around $1000 or less. I really don't know much about computers but I use XP a lot hope that helps. Video games that I would play would be like command and conquer 3. The applications that I would love to have would be Microsoft Word, Powerpoint,Photoshop that's about it. Thanks again.

Answer
Well, more or less anything in the $1000 or less category will do your target applications, C&C 3 will require some graphics processing hardware, so take a look at something with a discrete graphics module, like GeForce 9600 or something similar.

-bob