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Originally posted by baltassoc
I had a minute, so I looked it up. To run a full version of Vista (there will be cut down versions available), you'll need a 128mb graphics card (surprisingly, to me anyway), a fairly decent processor (MS says Pentium M or above - I think you'd be happier with a Intel Dual Core), 512MB internal memory (but everyone says at least 1GB, and the biggest hard drive you can find (at least 80MB - you'l have a hard time finding something bigger in a notebook that's not a big price jump).
I've also heard good things about Dells, although I've also seen a lot of complaints lately (really lately). The Dell M710 is pretty much the standard for corporate America these days (a client just bought 1200 of them a few months ago), but doesn't seem to have enough power for Vista. It's a really good combination of size, weight and power (I used to have the predecessor, the M610, as my work computer). HP/Compaq laptops suck ass. Sony's are cool, but somewhat fragile. ThinkPads, no longer made by IBM, have a reputation of being pretty rock solid, but are definitely expensive for the specifications.
And of course, the new MacBook will boot Windows XP, you you could use either operating system with it. But XP has to be purchased seperately.
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I bought a Dell 700M (M700?) a few months ago. I really like it so far. And it seems pretty rugged (yes, I've knocked it off the coffeetable once or twice).
Irritating sidenote - it came with fucking Word Perfect loaded on it instead of Word (I haven't grabbed the disc from one of our other computer purchases to load it up yet b/c I use Word thru Citrix, but it makes it a hassle to open docs that I e-mail to my home e-mail address to work on). Who the FUCK uses Word Perfect?
