What are the fastest notebooks available under $1300?

What are the fastest notebooks on the market now, under $1300?

By fastest, I mean the best overall performers. Gaming performance is not a concern, but video playback, editing and occasional encoding are.

I'm looking for general opinions and explanations. If you can point me to test comparisons that would help too.

I'm mostly looking at 15-17 inch

Thanks, c

 

HP Pavilion dv6500T

http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/s...and&v1=HP+Pavilion&series_name=dv6500t_series

use this NEW 30% coupon: NB3009

and you'll get the most cheapest laptop for greatest performance you can get at the moment

 

Sager 2090
http://www.xoticpc.com/product_info.php/cPath/95_51_162/products_id/1876

you could purchase it from xoticpc or powernotebooks....

 

With what you ask you are looking for the fastest CPU,RAM and HDD you can afford. That will give you the fastest for what you ask.

Above Computer looks very good $975 W/out 30% off, the HDD should be upgraded to @7200RPM (have to do on your own) but at that price you have the money. It comes W/2GB RAM at that price and a 2.4GHZ C2D CPU. It will be hard to beat that price, can't do it at Dell I checked

The Sager has a 8600m GT which you do not need. Built the same as HP except GPU $1311 and no money to upgrade HDD and no 30% off coupon

 

I would like get the 15", but due to eyesight I'll probably get the 17" (I'll just consider it a free arm workout)

the dv9500T appears to be the same as the dv6500T, just larger at 17"

so I am liking the 17" HPs

only problem is the 64x2 turion version is $200 less than the c2d version and I can't figure out why.

are the c2ds really that much faster that I should pay almost 20% more?

if not then I'll probably get the dv9500z

thanks, c

ps. I haven't completely ruled out the vostro 1700, I just fear the screens and other more minor complaints

 

The C2D is faster. If you do what you mentioned above occasionaly and don't mind a few seconds too a few minutes the the Turion is fine.

 

For your needs, pretty much any notbook will do. Heck, a 4 year laptop will do just fine too. Only new thing is dual cores (eg if you do encoding+some other thing at once).
Integrated graphics will be fine for general video playback.