New PC - 2009

It's been a long time I'm surviving with the same PC at home. May be it's time to buy a new one...

Requirements

• Main requirement: silence!
• Form-factor: Laptop would be a nice-to have. Would free some space on the desk, reduce cable clutter. But more expensive
  • On battery time is secondary. I'll mainly use it as a desktop anyway
• Resolution: laptop, min. 1440x9000, ideally 1920x1200. Desktop, min 1920x1200 mandatory.
• Ports: IEEE 1394 interface mandatory to acquire DV Video from digital handycam
• OS: PC must be Linux compatible. Let's get a Windows license for ease. Windows 7 english 64-bit Professional minimum.
  • Ultimate + Media center would be nice-to-have
• Graphic cards:
  • NVidia used to have good Linux compatibility, but I heard many troubles with these cards nowadays.
  • Intel' GMA series work perfectly well on my DELL E6500 with Lucid 10.04.
• Bluetooth
• Wifi 802.11 n

DELL

Laptop - Gamer - Alienware M17x

• 2400 € all taxes incl.
• Intel C2D T9800 2,93GHz
• NVidia GeForce GTX 260M GDDR3 1GB
• WUXGA 1920x1200
• 2x2GB RAM
• HDD 500GB
• DVD+/-RW
• Windows 7 Pro 64-bit English
• No AV, no MS SW.

Laptop - Pro - Latitude Z600

• (-) Only windows 7 32-bit version - need to ask 64-bit version.
• (-) Keyboard AZERTY French - need to ask Belgium version.
• (-) No NVidia graphic card. Intel GMA 4500MHD
• (-) No IEEE 1394 ports, no HDMI port (but DisplayPort)
• Strangely, the best price is got by personalising config BEBSDONL-L11Z6003.
• 2437 € HT
• Intel C2D SU9600 1.60GHz
• 4GB DDR3
• 256MB SSD

Laptop - Pro - Latitude E6500

• 1545€ HT
• Intel C2D P9700 2.80GHz
• Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate - English
• 15.4in screen 1440x900
• NVidia Quadro NVS 160M, 256MB
• 4GB DDR2
• 250GB HDD

HP

Cfr laptops for small & medium businesses.

HP EliBook Mobile Workstation

Model	Code	Price	OS	CPU	RAM	HD	Monitor	GPU	Other
EliteBook 8740w	WD939EA	2379€ HT	Win 7 64b	i7-620M 2,66GHz	4GB	500GB	1920x1200 17"	NV Quadro FX 2800M 1GB	802.11n + BT + BD ROM + DL DVD+/-RW

HP ProBook NoteBook

Looks too cheap to be good.

Essential NoteBook

None (Old CPU's, like C2D, pentium, celeron)

HP Mini

None (out of scope).

HP Mobile Thin Client

None (out of scope).