what sort of price range would i expect to be paying if i wanted the
highest spec laptop on the market.

In article <a6866bcc.0312010146.631101d0@posting.google.com>,
 speirsyboy@hotmail.com (martin speirs) wrote:

> what sort of price range would i expect to be paying if i wanted the
> highest spec laptop on the market.

This either naive or a deep question that has been well-thought out and 
simply stated. I can't tell which, so I'll take it seriously:

Windows or Macintosh?

Macs: iBooks go for about $1000; Powerbooks: $1500 to $3000 (approx). In 
comparison to Windows machines, Macs are much more powerful because of 
the nature of the OS which shows up as flexibility and ease of use. You 
can do a lot more with a Mac than with an AMD/Intel machine even though 
there is a greater variety of software available for the latter and raw 
processor speeds are about the same for both classes. Windows XP boots 
faster than OSX Panther, if that is important to you.

Windows with high performance AMD or Intel processors go for $3000-5000 
although the general range is $800-1500 and respectable machines that 
will run virtually any Windows program can be had for as little as $599 
new.

To get a better idea, go to the HP; Dell and Gateway home pages and 
layer through to "notebooks".

To get some feeling for esoteric really high end notebooks go to the 
eBay web page; search under notebooks enhancing your search with a price 
range of $4000 to $20000 and see what comes up.

Hope this helps.

yooser@fluadub.com wrote:

> Macs are much more powerful because of 
> the nature of the OS which shows up as flexibility and ease of use. You 
> can do a lot more with a Mac than with an AMD/Intel machine even though 
> there is a greater variety of software available for the latter and raw 
> processor speeds are about the same for both classes

1995 just called.. they want their uninformed prejudices back.