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Any particular brands to strongly consider or stay away from?
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Originally Posted by Pilgrim Any particular brands to strongly consider or stay away from? | Not necessarily but there are models within brands that are not great choices. Lenovo and Acer come out on top in terms of many customer satisfaction surveys but there are award winners from Dell and HP as well.
You can check out notebookreviews.com: The Leading Notebook Computers Site on the Net for reviews, features, popularity, and user feedback on practically every model conceivable.
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Whatever the brand...If you get one and it is going to have VISTA you need to try to get one with 2G of ram
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Guys, thanks for the responses. Anyone have anything else they want to add?
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Chris,
I've had or worked on a bunch of laptops. This is subjective, but here goes:
Stay away from:
Dell, Compaq, EMachines
Good are:
Toshiba, HP, Sony
There are other brands that I don't have first hand knowledge of. A good website for reviews of all sorts of products is Reviews from Epinions
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Originally Posted by Pilgrim Guys, thanks for the responses. Anyone have anything else they want to add? | I was in Best Buy and Circuit City the other day, and something occurred to me. This is the first time sine Windows Vista was release that the very cheapest computer offers the buyers with what they need to efficiently run the OS. This laptop was $499, and it had a 2 GHz processor (AMD Turion-64) and 1 GB RAM.
Truly the best investment you can make in your computer is the warranty. Since you are looking to buy a laptop, then you ought to buy the full protection/accidental warranty (if you drop it off a cliff, if spill water on it, etc). Of all the computer stores, Circuit City does the best job offering this for the best price. They also offer the protection independent of what the manufacturer's replacement warranty is.
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Rich, I think it should be notebookreview.com, without s.
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Originally Posted by aleksanderpolo Rich, I think it should be notebookreview.com, without s. | Thanks, Both appear to be legit sites.
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Originally Posted by Pilgrim Where can the best deals be had on a new laptop? | The Apple Store (U.S.)
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Originally Posted by jbergsing | I forgot to spell out that I am looking for something as cheap as possible that will get the job done for a few months or a year or so. XP pro would be fine.
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Originally Posted by jbergsing | I forgot to spell out that I am looking for something as cheap as possible that will get the job done for a few months or a year or so. XP pro would be fine. | You should be able to get something sub $400, maybe even sub $300.
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Originally Posted by jbergsing | I forgot to spell out that I am looking for something as cheap as possible that will get the job done for a few months or a year or so. XP pro would be fine. | You should be able to get something sub $400, maybe even sub $300. | New or refurbished? I've looked around on a few of the sites and the only laptops I've seen for that cheap are refurbs, but I've only just started looking.
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Originally Posted by aleksanderpolo Rich, I think it should be notebookreview.com, without s. | Thanks, Both appear to be legit sites. | No, he's right, go to: Notebook and Laptop Reviews |
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Originally Posted by SemperFideles | That's a nice system. Everyone I know - including me - who has gotten Vista prefers XP. If you can find a machine with XP on it, I would suggest sticking with that for a while...
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I prefer Vista but for reasons related to the interface.
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