Hi,

What are the best PC laptops/notebooks to get these days? It needs to be light, small (15"
should be OK), plenty of memory and disk space, run Windows XP, comes with modem, network
(wireless and hardwire), DVD burner, good support, last about five years, etc. Also, it has to
have a power adapter supported for airplanes for frequent travelling.

I would like to see them in local retail stores like Best Buy, CompUSA, Fry's Electronics, 
Costco, etc. to sample them.

Thank you in advance. :)
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<ANTant@zimage.com> wrote in message 
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> What are the best PC laptops/notebooks to get these days?

This is pretty much impossible to answer... go to those stores and try them 
out!

> It needs to be light, small (15"
> should be OK), plenty of memory and disk space, run Windows XP, comes with 
> modem, network
> (wireless and hardwire), DVD burner, good support, last about five years, 
> etc.

You can't expect any computer (laptop or desktop) to realistically still be 
usable in five years -- three years is a more reasonable estimate.  Granted, 
plenty of people DO use 5+ year old computers, but for the average person who 
has to run the same software as their clients, their company, etc, a 5 year 
old laptop looks pretty slow.

<ANTant@zimage.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> What are the best PC laptops/notebooks to get these days? It needs to be
> light, small (15"
> should be OK), plenty of memory and disk space, run Windows XP, comes with
> modem, network
> (wireless and hardwire), DVD burner, good support, last about five years,
> etc. Also, it has to
> have a power adapter supported for airplanes for frequent travelling.
>
> I would like to see them in local retail stores like Best Buy, CompUSA,
> Fry's Electronics,
> Costco, etc. to sample them.
>
> Thank you in advance. :)

Sample them in the store, then order it online. Save a packet! ;-)

**SS**

Secret Squiddle wrote:

> 
> <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote in message
> news:hJqdnbpAk6PU7AveRVn-vQ@mminternet.net...
>> Hi,
>>
>> What are the best PC laptops/notebooks to get these days? It needs to be
>> light, small (15"
>> should be OK), plenty of memory and disk space, run Windows XP, comes
>> with modem, network
>> (wireless and hardwire), DVD burner, good support, last about five years,
>> etc. Also, it has to
>> have a power adapter supported for airplanes for frequent travelling.
>>
>> I would like to see them in local retail stores like Best Buy, CompUSA,
>> Fry's Electronics,
>> Costco, etc. to sample them.
>>
>> Thank you in advance. :)
> 
> Sample them in the store, then order it online. Save a packet! ;-)

And don't be too surprised if next time you go to do that the store's not
there anymore or doesn't carry that kind of product anymore.

Personally, if I need to see something before I buy it I'll buy it from
where I saw it.

> **SS**

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"J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@snet.net.invalid> wrote in message 
news:dn9chh01vle@news2.newsguy.com...
> Secret Squiddle wrote:
>
>>
>> <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote in message
>> news:hJqdnbpAk6PU7AveRVn-vQ@mminternet.net...
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> What are the best PC laptops/notebooks to get these days? It needs to be
>>> light, small (15"
>>> should be OK), plenty of memory and disk space, run Windows XP, comes
>>> with modem, network
>>> (wireless and hardwire), DVD burner, good support, last about five 
>>> years,
>>> etc. Also, it has to
>>> have a power adapter supported for airplanes for frequent travelling.
>>>
>>> I would like to see them in local retail stores like Best Buy, CompUSA,
>>> Fry's Electronics,
>>> Costco, etc. to sample them.
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance. :)
>>
>> Sample them in the store, then order it online. Save a packet! ;-)
>
> And don't be too surprised if next time you go to do that the store's not
> there anymore or doesn't carry that kind of product anymore.
>
> Personally, if I need to see something before I buy it I'll buy it from
> where I saw it.

There's loads of other suckers to pay the high street prices. Places like 
PCworld will be serving the clueless public for decades to come.

**SS**