Quick laptop question

[ellenmillion]

Got a quote on the machine I'd like, and wanted to poll my wise LJ friends resource before I plunked down the cash.

It's admitedly more machine that I strictly need, but I'm looking ahead and don't want to try to add more to something. Particularly a laptop.

17" (I don't think I'll budge on that, and that's going to set a lot of my pricing, I'm sure...) SVGA Active TFT Matrix Color Display

Pentium IV, 2.8 GHz

512MB DDR Memory

AGP Video Chipset Intel 82865G Extreme Graphics

80 Gig Hard drive (the next model down came with only 40, upgradable to 60 for $60, upgradeable to 80 for $300 or something ridiculous, which just about put the two laptops in the same pricerange... and I NEED harddrive space.)

DVD-rom, CD-RW

Wireless ethernet

Norton Anti-virus, Windows XP-pro

Other standard stuff that doesn't much matter (speakers, soundcard, MP3 player)

Weight ~11.5 lbs.

Is $1699 a reasonable price? Any warnings, etc?

Comments

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Gateway BITES. Won't ever, ever buy one. We have them at work for some ungodly reason. But thank you for the warning! Much appreciated. :)

The one I'm looking at is an Acer, and I priced the same system at Dell for $4900. *gaspflounder*

The harddrive space was a big encouragement... I want to be able to tote around EMG print files, ALL EMG print files, and that's a chunk of space right there. It's ah... 80GB 4200RPM 8MB Cache Ultra DMA Harddrive. There might be a brandname buried in there... I don't know my harddrive lingo. :P

Thanks for all the notes!

[renatus.livejournal.com]

$4900?! That's $2100 over the price of the 17" powerbook! TWENTY ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS! Krishna on a toasting fork, I don't know how they get away with that o_x