A little advice needed

[MikeChello]

I'm off to university in september, and im looking for a laptop around about £800-1000 ish.

I am looking for a dual processor, prefrably with half decent audio. a multimedia described laptop would be ideal.

i would also ask what brand to go for? i have read a few poor reviews about sony, particularly the vaio range, therefore i would need some convincing with a sony.

here is a list of things i will use the laptop for

1. Music and downloading music.
2. Word processing and university work
3.possibly to be used as a television? (advice on this too? )
4. Msn messanger
5. digital photography uses
6. Watching DVDs

hopefully you can help! many thanks.
Mike.

 

[mrgoochio]

You do not need a very powerful laptop if those are the things you'd like to do with it. A core duo would always be nice for the multitasking power (music, downloading, word processing, university work, msn). To watch dvd's, you simply need a dvdrom and some software which is pretty standard these days. As far as digital photography, you may want to find a laptop thats widescreen or at least a laptop that can run at high resolution. Personally I'd stay away from sony, I hate their desktops/laptops.