Shopping for new laptop [Archive]

Holeshot

11-24-2008, 08:24 PM

I have had a few Dells and Its time to upgrade. I have around $700 to spend and I need some opinions. Keep it based on personal experience not 3rd party info.

TransAm12sec

11-24-2008, 08:28 PM

Best buy had/has a sale of their 17 inch laptop for $650, while there 15 inch is $700. I do wish the volume control was a dial, and not a touch button. Ah well, it looks cool.

250 gigs of memory, 4 mb of ram.

885.0stang

11-24-2008, 08:31 PM

me and my friend both have toshiba satellite and have had no problems except battery wearing out on my friends but mine is always pluged in so it still lasts like new. iv had it for about 2.5yrs. good price, plenty of memory and i use the hell out of this thing.

Slow Joe

11-24-2008, 08:38 PM

I've had good luck with Toshibas as well... Kristie and I were looking at one that Best Buy has a couple weeks ago... It was around $750ish... From what I've been told (by friends that aren't trying to sell me a laptop) stick with an Intel Processor over the AMD... I guess the AMDs are slower.

RanJer

11-24-2008, 08:45 PM

We got a 17" Compaq (HP) with the Intel dual 1.73s, 3GB of ram and a 200gig hd.. Came with Vista, been using it for about 6 months. Good battery life when we don't have it plugged in, capable for everything we need.

GTSLOW

11-24-2008, 09:17 PM

Despite the bad hard drive (replaced for free) this one has been awesome. For games and everything:

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0ghz
4gb Ram
Radeon 2600HD 512mb video card
250GB 7200rpm hard drive
Vista Home Premium

All for 419 bucks.

wikked

11-24-2008, 09:19 PM

There is no need to spend upwards of $700 for a laptop unless you are doing hardcore gaming or photo/movie editing.

Buy the cheapest one you can find, uprade the ram yourself. So easy a child could do it!
It will be more powerful than you could ever need.

GTSLOW

11-24-2008, 09:23 PM

There is no need to spend upwards of $700 for a laptop unless you are doing hardcore gaming or photo/movie editing.

Buy the cheapest one you can find, uprade the ram yourself. So easy a child could do it!
It will be more powerful than you could ever need.

You can't go wrong with mine!! $419 imo it's a steal.

Holeshot

11-24-2008, 09:25 PM

There is no need to spend upwards of $700 for a laptop unless you are doing hardcore gaming or photo/movie editing.

Buy the cheapest one you can find, uprade the ram yourself. So easy a child could do it!
It will be more powerful than you could ever need.

I am doing a lot of photo editing.

GTSLOW

11-24-2008, 09:29 PM

I am doing a lot of photo editing.

Vista has a few new features I've been using. Nothing big but nice for major rookies like me.

xxtremeteam

11-24-2008, 11:44 PM

I also have a toshiba satellite with vista and 17in screen and up graded to two gigs of ram and has intel inside i love it works flawless and i spent less than 500 almost a year old, this was my first brand new computer and plan to get another one around tax time

I mainly use this for internet, and some pics,ad my mp3s and my black berry program

70challenger452

11-24-2008, 11:51 PM

I've got an IBM, it doesn't look flashy or have any super cool features but it works awsome and is super fast

badass88gt

11-24-2008, 11:56 PM

I have an Acer and it is a ginormous piece of shit. The dvd drive died after about 5 months, bought a different one and it doesnt recognize it. apparantly there is something with their motherboard or something, I dunno. Junk.

Z28Envy

11-25-2008, 12:13 AM

I have a Dell I paid $150 for. It has worked great so far and is plenty fast. I only use it really for internet. It has XP on it and that is also what I use at work but I prefer vista. That is what is on my pc. To me it is just more user friendly.

Breecher_7

11-25-2008, 05:43 AM

I recently bought a Macbook, ill never go back to a pc.

Holeshot

11-25-2008, 08:31 AM

I recently bought a Macbook, ill never go back to a pc.

Yeah If I had the cash I would buy a Apple with out giving it a second tho thought.

Got Boost

11-25-2008, 09:11 AM

Despite the bad hard drive (replaced for free) this one has been awesome. For games and everything:

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0ghz
4gb Ram
Radeon 2600HD 512mb video card
250GB 7200rpm hard drive
Vista Home Premium

All for 419 bucks.
where did you get it??

GTSLOW

11-25-2008, 10:30 AM

Best buy

srt4eh

11-25-2008, 11:38 AM

I bought the cheapest laptop I could find from Best Buy....a Gateway for under $400. (wanted something cheap that wouldn't bother me if it got messed up in the 'stan) I upgraded the ram and its amazing....no problems at all and I run Finale music arranging software as well as Photoshop CS3....often at the same time :)

Holeshot

11-26-2008, 01:55 PM

I just ordered a Mac Book Pro 15" 2.4Ghz Intel Duo core 3GB ram 250 GB HHD
Woo Hoo Got $600.00 off as I have a real good connection. I deal I could not turn down.

xxtremeteam

11-26-2008, 01:57 PM

sounds good those apple laptops are nice and thats a sweet discount

DirtyMax

11-26-2008, 02:14 PM

Yeah that's a badass discount. If I could get $600 off that, I'd buy one too. Hell, I'd settle for a regular Macbook if I could get a few bucks scraped off it. Hook a brother up! :headbang

Russ Jerome

11-26-2008, 02:24 PM

My kid got a Dell for school, worked so nice my wife got
a Dell for herself..liked that so much I got myself one!

For a little over $700 you can get one hell of a laptop.
I clicked every option on mine less silly stuff like a built
in porn camera and with a realy nice bag it was about
$800. Im on my 3rd or 4th month with it and its faster
than than any desktop I've used to date.

Keep an eye out for discount codes for Dell's online.