HP Laptop - Bulk deal for PGites!

[Mahip]

Hey PGites! Many of us are gonna join a B school and wud buy a laptop soon! I talked to some dealers at Lamington Road, Mumbai and they said that we can easily manage a bulk deal where we can get a good discount of ~2k !

The basic plan:
1. Decide upon the laptop model to buy, and post it here. We all can discuss pros n cons of our selected models and come down to the single model to avail the best deal. For more laptop gyaan, check this thread: http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/your-i...laptop-33.html (Buying A Laptop)
2. Once we decide on our laptop, we can know the actual number of people interested for this bulk deal. May be we can have 10 ppl for 1 kind of model and 10 for some other kind. In that way, we can have multiple bulk deals.
3. Non Mumbaikars can also join in and we can plan for the home delivery of laptops. Though such deals can be managed in every other city as well.


So, choose your laptop model and post it here!

Added later: As most of the PGites are for DELL and HP bulk deal. We have two separate threads:

HP Deal: http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/chit-c...al-pgites.html

DELL Deal: http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/chit-c...ls-pgites.html

General Laptop Discussions: (Buying A Laptop)http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/your-interests/2900-buying-a-laptop-33.html

[Mahip]

COMPAQ V3228AU
Compaq Presario V3228AU Notebook PC specifications - HP Home & Home Office products

Processor type
AMD Turion™ 64 Mobile Technology MK-36
• 2.0 GHz, 512 KB Level 2 cache

Operating system installed
FreeDOS

Standard memory
512 MB

Memory type
DDR2 667 MHz

Memory layout
(1 x 512 MB)

Maximum memory
Supports up to 2 GB DDR2 memory

Internal hard disk drive
80 GB

Hard disk drive speed
5400 rpm

Optical drive type
Super Multi 8X DVD±RW with Double Layer Support

Memory card device
5-in-1 integrated Digital Media Reader for xD, Secure Digital cards, MultiMedia cards, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro

Modem
High speed 56K modem

Network interface
Integrated 10/100 LAN

Wireless technologies
802.11 b/g WLAN

External I/O ports
1 VGA, 3 USB 2.0 ports, 1 IEEE-1394, 1 RJ-11, 1 RJ -45, S-video out, 1 Headphone, 1 microphone-jack, 1 Expansion port for xb3000 expansion base, AC Adapter, Kensington lock, 2 Omni-directional microphones

Video capture interface
IEEE 1394 Interface

Expansion slots
(1) Express54/Card Slot (supports both 34 and 54 form factors)

Display size
14.1" WXGA High Definition BrightView Widescreen Display

Video adapter
NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 6150
Tech Specs

Speakers and microphone
Altec Lansing® speakers, Dual omni-directional microphones

Pointing device
Touch Pad with scrollzone

Power supply type
65 W AC Adapter

Battery life is 2.5 hrs

Weight
2.46 kg (5.41lbs)

Dimensions (W x D x H)
23.7 cm (W) x 33.4 cm (L) x 2.6 cm - 3.9 cm (H)
---------------------
Rs. 31,990/-


+ 512 MB RAM [to make it 1 GB RAM]
+ Win XP [licenced pack with CD]
--------------------
Rs. 40,000/-


- Very basic model
- Sufficient for B school needs
- 2 years down the line lot of things can change and we'll need to upgrade anyhow.. so better get a basic model here for B school work and get a new one later for personal use.

[anarchy]

arey Mahip...
U mentioned a graphics card nVidia waala..
care to elaborate on that???
I mean, for these 33k bucks.. how many MB of Graphics card am I getting???

anyways.. kudos for the initiative... guess every city can manage one of these arrangements.. no need for all of us to sak the mumbaikers to arrange this for us..
what say puys!!

EDIT: yessir.. I did do that.. guess I'll not ask for the no. of MBs it has again.... me is searching it out ma self!!! thankoos Mahipwa.. u helped me out a bit here!!!

[aspire]

Originally Posted by Mahip

COMPAQ V3228AU

Processor type
AMD Turion™ 64 Mobile Technology MK-36
• 2.0 GHz, 512 KB Level 2 cache

- Very basic model
- Sufficient for B school needs
- 2 years down the line lot of things can change and we'll need to upgrade anyhow.. so better get a basic model here for B school work and get a new one later for personal use.

Seems a good deal to me .. will post the link on the new batch's group on google ..

[Mahip]

Originally Posted by anarchy

arey Mahip...
U mentioned a graphics card nVidia waala..
care to elaborate on that???
I mean, for these 33k bucks.. how many MB of Graphics card am I getting???

Read my above post again, for detailed spectifications

[shashankcts]

Originally Posted by Mahip

COMPAQ V3228AU
Compaq Presario V3228AU Notebook PC specifications - HP Home & Home Office products

Processor type
AMD Turion™ 64 Mobile Technology MK-36
• 2.0 GHz, 512 KB Level 2 cache

Operating system installed
FreeDOS

Standard memory
512 MB

Memory type
DDR2 667 MHz

Memory layout
(1 x 512 MB)

Maximum memory
Supports up to 2 GB DDR2 memory

Internal hard disk drive
80 GB

Hard disk drive speed
5400 rpm

Optical drive type
Super Multi 8X DVD±RW with Double Layer Support

Memory card device
5-in-1 integrated Digital Media Reader for xD, Secure Digital cards, MultiMedia cards, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro

Modem
High speed 56K modem

Network interface
Integrated 10/100 LAN

Wireless technologies
802.11 b/g WLAN

External I/O ports
1 VGA, 3 USB 2.0 ports, 1 IEEE-1394, 1 RJ-11, 1 RJ -45, S-video out, 1 Headphone, 1 microphone-jack, 1 Expansion port for xb3000 expansion base, AC Adapter, Kensington lock, 2 Omni-directional microphones

Video capture interface
IEEE 1394 Interface

Expansion slots
(1) Express54/Card Slot (supports both 34 and 54 form factors)

Display size
14.1" WXGA High Definition BrightView Widescreen Display

Video adapter
NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 6150
Tech Specs

Speakers and microphone
Altec Lansing® speakers, Dual omni-directional microphones

Pointing device
Touch Pad with scrollzone

Power supply type
65 W AC Adapter

Weight
2.46 kg (5.41lbs)

Dimensions (W x D x H)
23.7 cm (W) x 33.4 cm (L) x 2.6 cm - 3.9 cm (H)
---------------------
Rs. 31,990/-


+ 512 MB RAM
+ Win XP
--------------------
Rs. 40,000/-


- Very basic model
- Sufficient for B school needs
- 2 years down the line lot of things can change and we'll need to upgrade anyhow.. so better get a basic model here for B school work and get a new one later for personal use.

Gr8 initiative,
Just want to suggest u guys...don't go for a laptop with AMD processor. Because it will get hot very soon....and instead of 512 MB of RAM u guys can go for 256 MB. But MUST are DVD RW facility and ATLEAST 120 GB hard disk..... also 14 inch will be too small...most of the time u guys will be staring the screens.. so 14 inch is not advisable.....go for 15.4 or atleast 15 inches....

[Mehul Mathur]

Dude,
Even the link does not give any info about the RAM in the Graphics Card,at around 31K it definately sounds like a steal, would be better if we could know the RAM in the Graphics card (Me kinda Gamer) as well as the Battery Life (very important).

[Mahip]

Originally Posted by shashankcts

Just want to suggest u guys...don't go for a laptop with AMD processor. Because it will get hot very soon....and instead of 512 MB of RAM u guys can go for 256 MB. But MUST are DVD RW facility and ATLEAST 120 GB hard disk..... also 14 inch will be too small...most of the time u guys will be staring the screens.. so 14 inch is not advisable.....go for 15.4 or atleast 15 inches....

AMD does heats up more, but performance wise it shud match Intel as its AMD Turion™ 64 Mobile Technology MK-36 and 2.0 GHz and does 14-15 inch makes so much difference? And 512 shud be minimum RAM dude, I wud say it shud be 1 GB! Cant think of 256 MB !!

Originally Posted by Mehul Mathur

Dude,
Even the link does not give any info about the RAM in the Graphics Card,at around 31K it definately sounds like a steal, would be better if we could know the RAM in the Graphics card (Me kinda Gamer) as well as the Battery Life (very important).

Battery life is 2.5 hrs
If u r an avid gamer, then this won't suit you!
This one is just for using MS Office, songs and watching movies[not storing them on HDD]

[shashankcts]

Originally Posted by Mahip

AMD does heats up more, but performance wise it shud match Intel as its AMD Turion™ 64 Mobile Technology MK-36 and 2.0 GHz and does 14-15 inch makes so much difference? And 512 shud be minimum RAM dude, I wud say it shud be 1 GB! Cant think of 256 MB !!


Battery life is 2.5 hrs
If u r an avid gamer, then this won't suit you!
This one is just for using MS Office, songs and watching movies[not storing them on HDD]

-Ok speed is 2 GHz but then due to heat u wont be able to use it as laptop...rather u will hae to use it as desktop...
-yes...14-15 inch makes difference....
-in a B school u will be using laptops only for Microsoft office tools...256 MB is enough for that..although i will also suggest to take 512 MB only max to max....

[Mahip]

Originally Posted by shashankcts

-Ok speed is 2 GHz but then due to heat u wont be able to use it as laptop...rather u will hae to use it as desktop...
-yes...14-15 inch makes difference....
-in a B school u will be using laptops only for Microsoft office tools...256 MB is enough for that..although i will also suggest to take 512 MB only max to max....

-Current B schoolers can help out on this heating issue, rest looks cool
-14 inch is ok with me as I did see this laptop at the shop n it looked sleak n good
- And yeah, even for normal Office tools I wud say 512 MB shud be minimum.. Not 256MB man, we need to see the requirements of the OS as well! Anyhow, I'll go for 1 GB .. after all we'll also play games sometime.