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frankieb · Joined: 10 Nov 2003 Posts: 6

I'm a 16 year old junior in high school. My father is allowing me to get a laptop for christmas, but it has to be under 1500. I will use my laptop for school work, but I also want to be able to run Photoshop AND Paintshop Pro AND Image Ready AND Animation Shop on my laptop because of my web designing. I hope I'm not pushing my luck, but I love the SIMS 2 and I have all the expansion packs on my desktop pc, no problem. Is there a laptop under 1500 dollars that has enough memory to run these programs smoothly? Any recommendations?

CD1495 · Joined: 14 May 2005 Posts: 6

hp laptopsif you can nag him for a 2 grand one, get an appleas well as this, you can upgrade to an extra 1 gig ram to make your computer faster for less than $80.

roberth · Joined: 27 May 2005 Posts: 3

yes, get a MacBook (1,100) then upgrade the RAM to 2 GB and HD to 120 GB. the new total is 1,324.Then get XP or which windows you prefer and install this on the MacBook using BootCamp.This way, you can boot up into either windows OR mac os x (using the option/alt key at startup)You can see if you like mac os x, and it is good for use at school, since they typically use macs. Then use Windows OS for all your games and windows software. With a Mac that has both OS X AND Windows, you cvan;t lose no matter what system you prefer.

punkrockdude · Joined: 01 Jun 2004 Posts: 5

I wouldint get an apple one..Just stick with Windows ;]And for what you need, i'd get a sony viao or whatever there called..Because its suitable for office work, or even play ;)There not as much as apple laptops either.

IamMale · Joined: 06 Jan 2005 Posts: 4

Try this one Sony VAIO VGNCR220EL 14.1" Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 2.0GHz Laptop, it will meet your requirement.You can also try this one tooToshiba P200-AB8 17" Intel Core 2 Duo, you can buy this laptop because the graphic card to be expandabled to 358MB, and it is pretty fast. the price is about 1200 USD. However, it is a bit heavy.but I recommend the first oneYou can buy it at Best buy.

ninebadthings · Joined: 16 Nov 2004 Posts: 7

I too recommend HP. It's perfect for graphics but u'll have to ask for a bigger ram to run those softwares smoothly. Check for the Video card as well. In that case, I believe that nVidia plays perfect.Good Luck.

ShannonB · Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 5

I would say you should get a Sony they are good for gaming and great for doing projects and other schools stuff. I especially recomend this one: Sony VAIO VGNCR220EL 14.1" Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 2.0GHz Laptop