Okay, I have a 5 (or so) year old Dell Inspiron 6000, and I will admit to having a bias against them for my own personal reasons. Needless to say, it is time to be in the market for a new laptop. I enjoy building desktops and understand a large part of the hardware terminology and such, but when it comes to laptops I always feel ridiculous, so here goes...
1_What is your budget? under $1000 (as low as possible for the specs)
2_What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? 15.5" to 16.4", down to 14" if there is something just that good
3_What screen resolution do you want? whatever works
4_Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? a blend, leaning towards the latter for the next little while
5_How much battery life do you need? any, will probably always see use next to an outlet anyway
6_Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)? moderately, but not a huge factor; when I do play, it is along the lines of the Call of Duty series, Civ4, Mabinogi...
7_What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo / Video editing, surfing the web, playing music, watching movies, Etc.) Photoshop, MS Office, statistical programs, heavy internet surfing, music, movies
8_How much storage (H.D.D Capacity) do you need? hopefully at least 250gb (and hopefully 7200rpm)
9_If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post the links to them. usually newegg, but anything works as long as they are trusted
10_How long do you want to keep your laptop? close to 4 years if possible
11_If you would like to mention some other things about purchasing your ideal laptop, post them. It would ideally have over 2ghz, dual-core, 4gb RAM, dedicated video-card, webcam/microphone would be nice, but not necessary
12_Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons. I like ASUS, Toshiba, and Sager, though anything with high reviews is nice; I avoid Dell and HP (Compaq) completely (mostly because of customer service issues), usually Gateway, Acer seems unstable, MSI the same, and I have no opinions on Sony, Lenovo, Fujitsu, Samsung, or any other that I have yet to hear about
13_What country do you live in? USA
I have been looking at several laptops. I don't game all that much, but when I do a lack of hardware power is aggravating. The system is by far and away going to see the most use as a school machine (MS Office, Photoshop, possibly some data-heavy statistics/economics programs).
http
/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220559
http/www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9371556&type=product&id=1218093379440
http/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220560
http/www.sagernotebook.com/product_customed.php?pid=168012
http/www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9366651&type=product&id=1218092150636
Here are the ones I have been looking at the most, but mostly the first guy. Any help would be appreciated, so thanks in advance!
1_What is your budget? under $1000 (as low as possible for the specs)
2_What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? 15.5" to 16.4", down to 14" if there is something just that good
3_What screen resolution do you want? whatever works
4_Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? a blend, leaning towards the latter for the next little while
5_How much battery life do you need? any, will probably always see use next to an outlet anyway
6_Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)? moderately, but not a huge factor; when I do play, it is along the lines of the Call of Duty series, Civ4, Mabinogi...
7_What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo / Video editing, surfing the web, playing music, watching movies, Etc.) Photoshop, MS Office, statistical programs, heavy internet surfing, music, movies
8_How much storage (H.D.D Capacity) do you need? hopefully at least 250gb (and hopefully 7200rpm)
9_If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post the links to them. usually newegg, but anything works as long as they are trusted
10_How long do you want to keep your laptop? close to 4 years if possible
11_If you would like to mention some other things about purchasing your ideal laptop, post them. It would ideally have over 2ghz, dual-core, 4gb RAM, dedicated video-card, webcam/microphone would be nice, but not necessary
12_Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons. I like ASUS, Toshiba, and Sager, though anything with high reviews is nice; I avoid Dell and HP (Compaq) completely (mostly because of customer service issues), usually Gateway, Acer seems unstable, MSI the same, and I have no opinions on Sony, Lenovo, Fujitsu, Samsung, or any other that I have yet to hear about
13_What country do you live in? USA
I have been looking at several laptops. I don't game all that much, but when I do a lack of hardware power is aggravating. The system is by far and away going to see the most use as a school machine (MS Office, Photoshop, possibly some data-heavy statistics/economics programs).
http
/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220559http
/www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9371556&type=product&id=1218093379440http
/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220560http
/www.sagernotebook.com/product_customed.php?pid=168012http
/www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9366651&type=product&id=1218092150636Here are the ones I have been looking at the most, but mostly the first guy. Any help would be appreciated, so thanks in advance!
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