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1. What is your budget? $250-$350, maybe $400. 2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? I've been using a bulky 17.3" Acer for awhile now, I'm ready to go back down to 15.6" or 15.4" 3. What screen resolution do you want? at least 1366x768 and I'm used to playing games at...

FYI I got lucky this morning and Acer listed another V3-771G, this time with i7-2670QM processor, 8GB of memory, GT640M graphics, 17.3 inch 1600x900 display, and two 500GB hard drives. For $619.99! That's $5 cheaper than the 15 inch one with the i7-3632QM and 1366x768 resolution. So that's...

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I did also find another with i7-2630QM and AMD graphics (awaiting seller response if its HD6490 or HD6770, please pretty please be the HD6770) but I don't think that's much better than GT520M. It's on eBay ends in 20min. The others are Acers, they are on eBay too but are buyitnow items one...

I am looking at two laptops in my budget at this time. I plan to buy this weekend but it may be next weekend before I actually pull the trigger. To keep the fanboys at bay, I'm not revealing the laptop brands, models, or other specs until after this is over, if then. LAPTOP #1: Intel Core...

This DVD can be purchased in NEW condition on Amazon for $5.49 plus about $3 shippping. It can be bought used, shipped to your door, for less than $5. This town must be so unbelievably hard up for cash that I wouldn't be surprised if they have to start holding bake sales. $31.45 for a...

The T4300 processor is in and I'm posting from it now. Windows noted a good speed increase (CPU score from 4.4 to 5.4 and memory score went from 5.1 to 5.4) but PassMark benchmarking noted NO changes. It does run just as cool as the Celeron 900 2.2GHz chip did. 37-40C most of the time, 48C...

Just a quick note to say I have the Acer version of that laptop on the way (Extensa 5230 something I think) and I also have a T4300 processor I got off eBay for $40ish and will be attempting this soon. That GL40 chipset appears to support 35W, standard voltage, Socket P processors. Hence...