I need some serious help!!!

Hello people...My name is Andrew and I am computer hardware illiterate. I am a pretty good guy when it comes to software The adobe's and the acid's, but when it comes to hardware I am a doofus. Therein lies my dillema...I'm shopping for a laptop for college lol. I've searched aroud alot and have found a computer that I THINK could satisfy my needs...(School...games...namely Guild Wars). Here are the stats...if you could give me some feedback about this notebook I would be ever grateful.



HP Pavillion zv6000

AMD Athlon 64 2.4 GHz 1MB Cache

15.4" WideScreen

128 MB ATI RADEON(R) XPRESS 200M w/Hypermemory(TM)

1.0GB DDR SDRAM (2x512MB)

100 GB 4200 RPM Hard Drive

Integrated 56K Modem + 10/100 Ethernet LAN

8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery



Window's XP Home Edition



I'm not worried with battery life because I will just plug it in, but I need to know if this computer would be able to multi-task fast, and play Pretty large, graphics demanding games WoW, GW and MMORPG's in general...Thank you Andrew

its funny how people think WOW and other MMORPG's are graphic demanding they really arnt, you could be using intergrated GPU and it would still look ok.



wat exactly will you be doing with it other then playing mmorpg's? take notes? make documents?

you might not need an Athlon64, its ganna run real hot and suck up bat life fast. should go with those turions (or w/e thier called) or even an intel celeron and it would be smaller and lighter to carry from class to class. but then you said your just ganna leave it plugged in, so are you ganna take it class to class or leave it in your room/dorm?if so y not just get a desktop?



if you decide you really want a laptop. you might want to buy a wireless card so you dont have to bother with cables.

how much is it btw?

Well all together it is $1,359.00 which I think it relativly cheap for 1 Gig memory and 100 gig hard drive. Mostly it's for games and online classes...maybe like a movie here and there and some digital music but nothing really taxing. I just want a powerful machine that will be able to do what I want at the time. Say I someday decide to make a music vid for my band and buy Adobe Premier or something to do it...I want a machine that won't have a prob running a fairly large program. Papers and stuff will probably be part of college too lol.

That sounds like a good machine....I used to own an HP and their batteries suck large



If you can have it plugged in then go nuts

They do get very hot (excessively compared to my Acer) and they eat battery life like no tomorrow, you'll probably get about an hour give or take of solid battery from it



Overall a good machine for what you're looking for



oh, and HP's tech support is borderline handicapped....their answer to everything is "boot from recovery disk"

lol that's my mom's solution to everything too...Battery life I am not worried about...I can get better batteries or just use an Ac adapter...but what about the heat problem...I would hate to get a computer that gets hot and have it damage itself or something...is there something I can do?

yes there is something you can do. get one of those fan matts that you place underneath your lappy.

like these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...ubmit=Property

That thing looks like it could be noisy and cumbersome...is it the only option? I will certainly get it if it is necissary but I would hate to have to lug it around everywhere I went

well depends on which one you get. the one i got for my laptop is quiter than the laptop fans and its thin so it fits fine with the bag.

but you might not even need it.

when you get the laptop feel the underside and make sure you leave space between the laptop and the desk so air can flow threw. and if it still gets really hot then you'll need one.

Yea good call...I will definatly investigate these fans further...also can someone maybe throw together a pro's and con's list for the comp stats I just posted...it would really help me weigh my options...

pros

-lots of power b/c of that atholon64 2.4ghz

-good amount of RAM

-lots of disk space for a laptop

cons

-by the looks of the specs, it might be a big, heavy, thick laptop

-low batt life b/c of the CPU

-no wireless card



there are probably more pros and cons, just cant think of em right now