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"Considering buying a laptop."

So, advantages, disadvantages, links to good deals (under about £300, preferably, but ebay etc. is all good).

Just something to store all my music and porno on.

Thankee.

Build yourself a desktop. My laptop is a £450 system I use for programming to anyone else it would be a pile of ass.

If you're getting a laptop because you think it'll be cooler then get a desktop. If you're just going to use it in your house you can build a very good computer for about £500 if you know what to get.

Portability is an issue (but is it a word?), but admittedly it isn't necessary.

The problem is space, to be honest. I'd be hard pushed to get it into the house I'm in now, and due to my parents splitting up fairly recently, the house I will soon be moving to will be about 40% smaller.

Build a PC and pwn on CS:S.

Yeah if space is an issue desktops can be pretty chunky, although if you get a nice thin screen, stick your tower on the floor and put it all on a desk it won't take up much more room than a laptop, although I understand your point, especially if you won't actually have room for a desk.

I'll be getting a laptop for Uni for 3 main reasons (despite phi11ip constantly trying to convince me that I don't need one):
a) I'll be living in a SMALL room with not much space (like yourself)
b) I will be moving back and forth between places fairly regularly and also I may take a year out somewhere
c) A laptop is easier to hide and less likely to get stolen if my room is burgled (obviously only if I hide it, though)

Dell Inspiron 1200 for £399 - just change the service to 90 days.

[URL]http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&kc=305&l=en&oc=N06125&s=dhs&sbc=inspn_1200[/URL]

"# Intel® Celeron® M Processor 350 (1.30 GHz, 1MB L2 Cache, 400 MHz FSB)
# 256MB shared2 DDR SDRAM"

I weep. Don't do it.

gerrid wrote:
> c) A laptop is easier to hide and less likely to get stolen if my
> room is burgled (obviously only if I hide it, though)

My solution to this was a 17kg steel case. I can't exactly hide it, but the total PC weighs 25kg making it difficult to run off with at least!

many goats wrote:
> Portability is an issue (but is it a word?), but admittedly it isn't
> necessary.
>
> The problem is space, to be honest. I'd be hard pushed to get it into
> the house I'm in now, and due to my parents splitting up fairly
> recently, the house I will soon be moving to will be about 40%
> smaller.

I'm currently in a room which is no bigger than 3x3 meters.
And I have a beast of a 17" CRT.
It doesnt actually take that much space, I've got a PC desk with the tower on the bottom out of sight
Then I've got my audio monitors attached to the wall.

And this setup does not fill the room, it barely covers an 8th of the space..

gerrid wrote:
> I'll be getting a laptop for Uni for 3 main reasons (despite phi11ip
> constantly trying to convince me that I don't need one):
> a) I'll be living in a SMALL room with not much space (like
> yourself)
> b) I will be moving back and forth between places fairly regularly
> and also I may take a year out somewhere
> c) A laptop is easier to hide and less likely to get stolen if my
> room is burgled (obviously only if I hide it, though)

I too considered these reasons enough for phi1 to stop and think in a case by case way.