Which laptop has the best sound, price of 1000-2500$, best monitor, good speed, light,and longest batterylife?

Answer 1

I have Dell's E1705 I love it... I got it about 1 year go for about $1500. 17" screen kind of bulky to carry around but I like it... You can get all the info at dell.com

Answer 2

No laptop has great sound, due to the fact that they're all working with little tiny speakers that are crammed in wherever they'll fit. They all should have roughly comparable sound if you use amplified desktop speakers or headphones with them, though.

And as for good speed and light, they run directly counter to long battery life. Generally speaking, though, if raw power is your preference, go for something that uses AMD's Turion processor, as they build with power in mind and try to get as much battery life out of the result. If you really want battery life, try for something with Intel's Centrino Mobile line, particularly in a Sony Vaio. You could get as much as 4-5 hours of use, but the cost is that anything other than DVD/CD playback will run considerably slower, and gaming is going to be a bit tough to pull off. For now, I'd stay away from Intel's Core Duo/Solo line, for which they pretty much ripped off AMD's more powerful processor architecture. AMD knows the basics of the design pretty well by now, but Intel is having its first go at a completely new build, and it might take a generation or two before they get all the kinks worked out (ever hear of the Pentium's floating point math issue?).

As for the monitor, I'd stick with a WXGA 15.4" widescreen, which is getting to be something of a standard size these days. Everyone wants widescreens for DVD playback, 15.4" is large enough to work with but small enough to haul around easily, and WXGA is a type of screen that offers increased brightness with less power usage than previous generations of LCDs.