So I'm thinking of buying a laptop...

[clifford]

I've never had one before. I'm just looking for one which can facilitate the internet and save documents and spreadsheets for college on it.
And I do not wanna go mad on the moolah.

So, can any of you crappers out there give me some good suggestions on which brand I should get? And I definately need a laptop so no 'get a PC instead' replies thankyouverymuch.

[jcdenton]

hmmm.. if all you want is WP and internet, see if you can find a used on on EBAY, those could be dirt cheap

[EvilMasterBetty, Esq.]

Man, if you can somehow find one cheap, get an iBook or iMac. Seriously, if you're not going to play games, they're the way to go.

If not, avoid Dell. They break a lot. I can't count the number of people in school who complained when their Dell broke in 2 months.

[eeriebagel]

i have a toshiba- you can get one of those cheap for about $800.
i don't know if i would recommend vista- but thats a post for another time.
oh, and you might want to make sure your laptop will come with microsoft office if you need that for school.

[clifford]

evilmasterbetty said:

Man, if you can somehow find one cheap, get an iBook or iMac. Seriously, if you're not going to play games, they're the way to go.

If not, avoid Dell. They break a lot. I can't count the number of people in school who complained when their Dell broke in 2 months.

Yeah it seems with everyone I ask, half the people say Dell is very reliable with laptops while the other half say steer clear of them

[eeriebagel]

clifford said:

evilmasterbetty said:

Man, if you can somehow find one cheap, get an iBook or iMac. Seriously, if you're not going to play games, they're the way to go.

If not, avoid Dell. They break a lot. I can't count the number of people in school who complained when their Dell broke in 2 months.

Yeah it seems with everyone I ask, half the people say Dell is very reliable with laptops while the other half say steer clear of them

dell desktops rock my socks.
dell laptops i have heard horror stories about.

[EvilMasterBetty, Esq.]

clifford said:

evilmasterbetty said:

Man, if you can somehow find one cheap, get an iBook or iMac. Seriously, if you're not going to play games, they're the way to go.

If not, avoid Dell. They break a lot. I can't count the number of people in school who complained when their Dell broke in 2 months.

Yeah it seems with everyone I ask, half the people say Dell is very reliable with laptops while the other half say steer clear of them

Which is why you should steer clear. They don't seem to be very consistent with their product.

I would just make sure you get one with a decent amount of RAM, cause my laptop is lacking in RAM and it sucks.

[clifford]

evilmasterbetty said:

clifford said:

Yeah it seems with everyone I ask, half the people say Dell is very reliable with laptops while the other half say steer clear of them

Which is why you should steer clear. They don't seem to be very consistent with their product.

I would just make sure you get one with a decent amount of RAM, cause my laptop is lacking in RAM and it sucks.

Yeah good point, thanks for the input

[Psy]

I personally would get a refurbished laptop from a reputable store like TigerDirect. I've bought from them before and they took care of me. When my friend's computer died for the second time* right after the carried-over HP warrantee went out, the TigerDirect warranty came into play and they had a technician drive 180+ miles to fix his computer because he needed it in 6 days for school and couldn't mail it in.

*- Don't look at porn or warez or it'll happen to you too.

[Captain Wonderful]

psychotideman said:

I personally would get a refurbished laptop from a reputable store like TigerDirect. I've bought from them before and they took care of me. When my friend's computer died for the second time* right after the carried-over HP warrantee went out, the TigerDirect warranty came into play and they had a technician drive 180+ miles to fix his computer because he needed it in 6 days for school and couldn't mail it in.

*- Don't look at porn or warez or it'll happen to you too.

* - If you have Windows. Better yet, just don't use Windows!

[jcdenton]

survivalism said:

psychotideman said:

I personally would get a refurbished laptop from a reputable store like TigerDirect. I've bought from them before and they took care of me. When my friend's computer died for the second time* right after the carried-over HP warrantee went out, the TigerDirect warranty came into play and they had a technician drive 180+ miles to fix his computer because he needed it in 6 days for school and couldn't mail it in.

*- Don't look at porn or warez or it'll happen to you too.

* - If you have Windows. Better yet, just don't use Windows!

Yes, use OSes with 5% compatibility.

[Gopher Mod]

Ahh, TigerDirect. My brother and uncle work for one of their subsidiaries, Systemax (based out of Fletcher, Ohio). I got my desktop from there, and I'll be getting a laptop from there in the next few weeks. The computers are much better quality than Dell's IMO.

And also, don't get Vista yet. The bugs have yet to be worked out, and it eats RAM for breakfast, lunch, and dinner (aka you need 2-3 GB of RAM to run the more advanced versions of Vista).

[eeriebagel]

oh, and make sure you get a good warranty, just in case ;-)

[Cranjis McBasketball]

From what I've heard, Toshiba is the best.

I can't say why, it's just what I heard.

[eeriebagel]

cdr said:

From what I've heard, Toshiba is the best.

I can't say why, it's just what I heard.

It's b/c I own one. and it's orange.

[nisi]

I endorse this thread. I am also getting a laptop (probably not till September when I am back from England and hoping for back-to-school sales. I actually don't care about price so much but need it to be super fast (I have the attention span AND tolerance level of a 2 year-old). I don't play games or do video thingies now, but that might change when I actually have my own laptop. I have an IT advisor who recommends Toshiba and HP.

[eeriebagel]

when i bought my laptop the only thing i regretted was not waiting till the back to school sale.
could have gotten about $300 worth of add-ons for free

[Alucard]

I can't say anything but good things about my Toshiba Satellite. It's survived a lot of havoc and abuse. It got to where it overheated a lot, but a USB chillmat remedied this. I'm sure that's more my fault than the fault of the computer its self, as I had had the thing a while before this started to happen.

[eeriebagel]

I also have a toshiba satellite- this baby gets hot. I just try not to block the vents when that happens.

[Alucard]

eeriebagel said:

I also have a toshiba satellite- this baby gets hot. I just try not to block the vents when that happens.

Yep.

I mean, a 20 dollar investment to remedy an 800 dollar problem, that's no biggie at all. I've never EVER had it overheat since I started using my USB chill thingy device. So, I love my computer. I'm amazed it's still alive, I know the HD has GOT to be at critical mass.