HP Laptop - Good Deal?

This laptop is $1,000 even. I wanted to know what you guys think, and if you have any suggestions on my choices.



-XP Home

-AMD Athlon 64 3200 (2.0ghz/512 L2 cache)

-15.4" WXGA Widescreen w/ Brightview Technology

-128mb ATI Radeon XPress 200M w/HyperMemory (dedicated, and can use another 128mb shared memory)

-512mb RAM (1x 512 w/ an extra slot for later)

-80gb HDD 5400 RPM

-DVD burner Double Layer

-Intergrated 802.11b/g Wireless Lan

-8 Cell Lithiom Ion Battery

-and a few extras that aren't important

-Oh, and Free shipping



Thanks for your input

what are you going to be doing with that laptop gaming or multitasking

I think it's a good laptop, whatever you're gonna be using it for. That GPU might not be able to play all recent games (or maybe with uber-low grafix).

I am going to use CAD, Photoshop and do some light gaming. I think it would run UT2004 and Halo ok.

eh, i just got a computer with that same specs cept with an amd 3800+ processor, a gig of ram and a 12 cell battery for $1000

Show me, that would be a good deal, and by the same specs do you mean that the GPU is the same or not?

it should work pretty good for cad and photoshop, but if your only doing light gaming, i would try and get a P4 or PM. And it should deffinetly play UT2004, not sure about Halo though.

it was a special deal at office depot, go there and see if they still have it, you choose the parts and they built it and mail it to you. it has a couple of rebates so it was about 1200 before rebates. yes its the same gpu, the xpress 200 is not very good for gaming, i can play Counter strike source on ULTRA LOW effects at 480x520 or somthing and get 20-30 fps

it would run ut ok but if ure thinking of gaming u might want to invest in a bit more ram

if your planning on gaming, get another laptop