I need a laptop.

victor

victor

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I'm moving out and I can't take my stationary PC with me, so I'm gonna have to get a laptop. I want to keep it under $1200. There's absolutely no need for it to play games, I just want it to play music, videos, DVDs and be connected to the Intarnet, but do those things REALLY well. I was thinking either an Asus or an Acer.
 
You should get one of those that you can open and close with a grey, leftwards moving lock.

They rule.
 
Try ebay. Look for laptops with broken monitors. If you find any with a screen flicker, no backlight error, buy it. That kind of error is caused by a single simple to replace chip. The reason people dump them is that the manufacturers charge over 600 dollars to replace a 20-50 dollar part. I've just started doing this, simple repair, sell, repeat :)
Honestly I just fixed my own laptop and did some ebay searching and found atleast 10 laptops with this problem for under 500 dollars.
 
$1200... hmmm, that's not a lot of money. In fact, all non-shitty laptops (i.e. Toshiba, IBM etc.) that cost under $1200 come with a lame Intel graphics chip. In your price range, I can recommend IBM Thinkpad R52 (there are several versions of that model) or Toshiba Satellite M40X-183 (M40X-283 if you can afford it). Whatever you do, don't get a HP.
 
Definately stay away from HP. They have the highest rate of the error I previously mentioned. And their customer support sucks ass.
 
Thrincold said:
Definately stay away from HP. They have the highest rate of the error I previously mentioned. And their customer support sucks ass.
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I'm glad I could be of service (I have a new job now, anyway)
 
Really, what's wrong with Acer and Asus? I've seen pretty good laptops under $1200. (Note: I don't really need battery time, it's not going to be a mobile laptop, if you see what I mean).
 
Just get a Dell, they're really inexpensive and if you aren't going to be playing the latest games on it there's no reason to spend tons of money. I've got a PIII Dell Latitude and it plays DVD's fine, runs all applications at a decent speed and has never given me a problem. Paying around $1000 for a laptop that isn't going to be doing anything except playing DVD's, mp3s and internet browsing is as ridiculous as buying an Alienware computer just to run Microsoft office.
 
Dell is a decent brand when laptops are concerned. And really $1200 is way too much money spent (i think). i got a new laptop for just under £300. so think about it since you have no need for a good gpu.
 
Dell is overpriced. Really, I compared a computer I saw with an equivalent Dell laptop.
 
Someone recently recommended the R Series IBM thinkpad. The thinkpads are decent machines and if you can afford on in your budget I'd go for that. The T series with the biometric scanners are cool too, but that might be out of your price range!
 
The Overseer said:
Dell is overpriced. Really, I compared a computer I saw with an equivalent Dell laptop.
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Rule of thumb - an inexpensive notebook is most likely a crappy notebook. I learned it painfully with my HP Compaq nx7000. Dell is a solid brand as far as notebooks are concerned. Nothing beats Toshiba, though.

Oh, and for God's sake, don't buy an iBook.
 
I'm not touching Macs. All the ones I've seen, even at school, kept crashing ALL the time.
 
Funny. Never managed to crash a mac. I got my mac three months ago and I will never buy a PC again.

Life is so much easier.

Plus in the iBook 12" line the value for the money is quite good (1069e shipped). 6h battery, bluetooth etc.
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Definately stay away from HP. They have the highest rate of the error I previously mentioned. And their customer support sucks ass.
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Try the Toshiba Sattelite Pro, they give you a troubleshooting handbook, that tells you to refer to the other handbook, on several problems, and they give you no other handbook.
 
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