RGA
01-15-2005, 07:08 PM
I have never owned a laptop but need one as a student teacher because it makes it much easier to conduct lessons on power point. Anyway I've done a fair amount of research and it seems these beasties do almost everything.
Anyway I'm looking at the Hewlett Packard Pavillion dv1040ca Entertainment Notebook Computer. I'm not going to play games which seems to be the units main achilles heel. I can't spend more than $1500.00Cdn and this one is $1497.00. I hope to get through my practicums with the thing and take it to overseas next summer when I teach English.
I do have an audio related question -- The thing has two headphone sockets - I have HD 600s - I will probably purchase a portable headphone amp. Is there a way to maximize the quality of sound - I don't think running the sound out of the heaphone jack to the amp then to the cans will be very good? Or is there some less noisy output that would be advisable. I can of course just use a discman for music - but I'm thinking for watching movies. The HD 600s are massive power hog cans.
Also any advice on this laptop would be appreciated from computer experts. It seems to do a LOT more than most of the competitors around here for the price - which makes my cynic side panic. A lot seem to miss out a DVD burner for instance or don't have Centrino(whatever) or bluetooth. Doubt I'll ever use a lot of it but younever know.
Still games might be nice - can I play any games on this thing - don't need to play major power hog games like Halo but it would be nice to play Sim City kind of things.
Note: I'm leaning to HP Because my computer is an HP Pavillion and it's been greeat for about 6-7 years. This is where I'm coming from at present - Celeron 500 - 10gb HD(still never filled half of it) 192mb ram -17' monitor CD Writer 8xread 4x write win 98se that rarely fails.
Lastly the Laptop comes with a remote control - which would be really useful IF and only IF it can be used with power-point presentation to skip to the next slide rather than walking over to the mouse to skip slides.
The laptop is speced here. Thanks http://www.staples.ca/ENG/Catalog/cat_sku.asp?webid=584001&CatIds=88%2C89%2C90%2C445&AffixedCode=WW
Anyway I'm looking at the Hewlett Packard Pavillion dv1040ca Entertainment Notebook Computer. I'm not going to play games which seems to be the units main achilles heel. I can't spend more than $1500.00Cdn and this one is $1497.00. I hope to get through my practicums with the thing and take it to overseas next summer when I teach English.
I do have an audio related question -- The thing has two headphone sockets - I have HD 600s - I will probably purchase a portable headphone amp. Is there a way to maximize the quality of sound - I don't think running the sound out of the heaphone jack to the amp then to the cans will be very good? Or is there some less noisy output that would be advisable. I can of course just use a discman for music - but I'm thinking for watching movies. The HD 600s are massive power hog cans.
Also any advice on this laptop would be appreciated from computer experts. It seems to do a LOT more than most of the competitors around here for the price - which makes my cynic side panic. A lot seem to miss out a DVD burner for instance or don't have Centrino(whatever) or bluetooth. Doubt I'll ever use a lot of it but younever know.
Still games might be nice - can I play any games on this thing - don't need to play major power hog games like Halo but it would be nice to play Sim City kind of things.
Note: I'm leaning to HP Because my computer is an HP Pavillion and it's been greeat for about 6-7 years. This is where I'm coming from at present - Celeron 500 - 10gb HD(still never filled half of it) 192mb ram -17' monitor CD Writer 8xread 4x write win 98se that rarely fails.
Lastly the Laptop comes with a remote control - which would be really useful IF and only IF it can be used with power-point presentation to skip to the next slide rather than walking over to the mouse to skip slides.
The laptop is speced here. Thanks http://www.staples.ca/ENG/Catalog/cat_sku.asp?webid=584001&CatIds=88%2C89%2C90%2C445&AffixedCode=WW