Laptop recommendations ?

[2trix]

Any good recommendations for a laptop ? Anyone who has bought a laptop recently to play online poker may be ideal to respond to this question. I am looking to play 2 or 3 tables only at one time and wish to use pokertracker and gametime concurrently. I am not sure of are the minimum specs needed. I also wish to spend about 1500 to 1800 $ for it ( too less ???). Pleas advise.

Thank a lot to all the posters here for the huge amount and outstanding quality of poker advice.

[smoore]

Sounds like you need a Sager or a Chembook. discountlaptops.com sells them. Get something that does 1600x1200, anything P4 w/512+MB of RAM should do the trick. My two year old Sager does online poker just fine (datamining 8 tables and playing 4 works great), the only problems I have with it are that it's hot and heavy.

[AtlChip10]

I just purchased a Dell Inspiron 9200 and it is perfect for online poker. Has a 17" wuxga screen that does 1900x1200, plenty of power, and is priced in the range you specified. I would recommend waiting to find a coupon on techdeals though. I was able to use a 25% off coupon that saved me 600 bucks...

[dogsballs]

yeah, I just got the inspiron 9200. It's niiice. Big screen etc. Someone just posted in teh internet forum about a sager 37.. can't remember no ecatly. Sounded good.

[jakethebake]

I really like my Dell 700m, but it's more of a travel laptop.

[kurosh]

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With similar specs, the dell is $300 more expensive. But with a 25% off coupon it'd be about $150 cheaper. I'm going to stick with the quality of sager.

[tylerdurden]

More ram is more important than the fastest CPU available. Any Pentium M should be more than enough.

If you're mostly going to use it at one location, you should see if the external video port is capable of acting as a 2nd display. Almost all laptops have an external video port, but on some it only mirrors the primary display.