Posted by jdemaris on October 23, 2010 at 07:00:24 from (67.142.130.38):
In Reply to: OT Laptop Computer posted by John T on October 23, 2010 at 05:57:06:
Lou, I'm probably going to sound like a "broken record", but I do not find "you get what you pay for" to be universally true. Many lap-tops go on sale simply becasue of tech-changes which may mean nothing to you.
I never buy when something has the newest tweaks that I'll never need or use. I also have no loyality to Intel processors. Many AMD chips work just as well. I've been using AMD for many years, and also used to be a Cyrix fan until they disappeared.
Office Max runs sales now and then on HP, Acer, or Toshiba lap-tops and are are great quality. I rarely buy from Office Max simply because I don't want to pay NY sales tax.
NewEgg has some of the best buys on the planet and often they sell with free shipping and NO sales tax. Go to their site and get on their email "specials" list. We have many lap-tops here; even my 7 year old has his own. I paid $350 for a Compaq Presario with a 250 GB hard-drive, 3 GB RAM-memory, DVD burner, AMD Athalon II processor, wi-fi networking, card-reader, and 15.6" screen. I love it. Model CQ61-420US. They have great tech support with somebody that answers a USA phone.
My wife and little boy both have a Toshiba Satellite L305-S5921 with Intel Pentium dual-core T3400(2.16GHz), 15.4" screen,memory-RAM DDR2 800 160GB HDD DVD burner, card-reader, wi-fi, etc. Paid $330 each for those.
Personally, I think you'd be nuts to pay more money unless there's something very high-tech that you need.
One warning. They just about all now come with Windows 7 Home premium. Note that is the cheapest OS Windows sells and is by no means "premium." It will not run all the older programs that Windows XP did (in all versions). Funny they don't tell you that in the Windows commericials.
If you can't get it to run some of your favorite programs, this is the only fix. First, your computer hardware MUST be compatible with "hardware virtualization." Many are not. Thus the need to read the small print when you go computer shopping. All the lap-tops I bought cheap have it. Many at twice the price do NOT. So, if you have the "hardware virtualization", and then spend another $100 for a Windows Pro 7 upgrade, the old programs should then work as they did with ALL versions of XP.
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