what laptop to get?

[steveo10]

i dont use the laptop for much... email,forums,mp3,facebook,**** so it dont have to be a super game machine. my old dell piled up for good a couple of weeks ago and am lookin for a new one.

im assuming (from what i heard) you need at least 2MB ram to run vista. my old dell didnt have that much so vista ran like a snohawk. so im lookin for something with 2 - 4MB ram.

im not lookin for spend a ton, so what is your cup of tea?

 

[opus]

Mac Book. Everything else is a Yugo.

 

[bdubs]

Skip vista all together. Windows 7 is in r.c. now and is slated to start shipping around xmas.



Just get a netbook for like 300 bucks to tide you over. Do anything but vista lol

 

[shortstop20]

Do anything but vista lol

 

[steveo10]

my laptop (2 ago) had xp and ran wicked... the thing is it had 1/2 the specs. of my last one that ran vista and was twice as fast... go figure

 

[UintaVentureBoys]

my laptop (2 ago) had xp and ran wicked... the thing is it had 1/2 the specs. of my last one that ran vista and was twice as fast... go figure

I bought one of them $298 Acer notebooks before I got this one, it ran vista.. I've had to replace the hard drive in this Dell twice and the Acer still kickin strong.. Its faster than my $800 Dell and 1/3 the cost.. I can't say anything bad about vista either.. thats just me

 

[steveo10]

i know dell will give you xp as well so you can change back...

i cheaped out and got a dell to hold out til xmas with 4mb ram... it bounces up and down on oilpatch roads all day so that why i cant have nice stuff!

 

[Ex-Member]

Mac Book. Everything else is a Yugo.

+1.

 

[Beels]

Mac Book. Everything else is a Yugo.

My old lady bought a Mac Book Pro for her master's course at school and paid out the butt for it and its konked out on her twice. It's not like she abuses it either. Stays on the desk in her apartment or on the coffee table at home. Took it back to where she bought it and I had to laugh when the next two people in line behind us have Mac Books in hand. The lady right behind us said this was her 3rd trip in.

I'm not convinced that the extra money over a PC based notebook is worth it. I usually keep my notebooks roughly 3 years and my current one is right there, and the one before that I gave to my old man and it hasn't skipped a beat. Both of those are Compaqs. I can't find a reason to switch.

 

[shortstop20]

For what this guy is going to use it for a MacBook is too much money.

Camaro's are nicer than Malibu's as well, but they're 2-3 times the price, just like a Macbook vs. a decent laptop PC which can be had for $700.

 

[JDKZRT]

im not lookin for spend a ton, so what is your cup of tea?

Our company went from NEC to Dell (Latitudes) to Lenovo (T series).
http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/...-category-id=3E6104B5827D488DA12BA359240B4668
Lenovo's are by far the most reliable of the 3, and excellent warranty and service support too. Metal (magnesium)cases, nice keyboard feel, real hinges and you can downgrade to XP.
I'd buy one for personal use anytime.

 

[hilinerider]

i have had farn good luck with my toshiba, 17" dual core runnin xp, and it gets used hard

 

[HawkShot99]

Our company went from NEC to Dell (Latitudes) to Lenovo (T series).
http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/...-category-id=3E6104B5827D488DA12BA359240B4668
Lenovo's are by far the most reliable of the 3, and excellent warranty and service support too. Metal (magnesium)cases, nice keyboard feel, real hinges and you can downgrade to XP.
I'd buy one for personal use anytime.

Bought one 2 years ago through my college. Has been absolutely awesome. It does not get used for much beyond internet and word prosesor, but have not had a problem yet.

 

[shwee]

+1.

+2

 

[MARCUSO]

Macbook

+2

X3 It only hurts once. Best computer I ever had.

 

[steveo10]

i have had farn good luck with my toshiba, 17" dual core runnin xp, and it gets used hard

i had a tosiba before the dell it was great.... only problem i could remember is the keys were falling off

 

[Ex-Member]

Windows *can* be nice, if you don't load it up with crap. I'd never use it as my main machine.

If you don't need windows, Ubuntu/Fedora and a few other Linux variants have come a long way. They support most everything a windows box will; printers, digital cameras, GPSs, come -loaded- with software... best part is, it's free. On top of that, you don't have the viruses/etc to worry about. An IBM with *nix is a tough machine to beat.

USANotebooks.com is a site we used to go through at work for refurb'd laptops. They buy corporate upgrades, wipe the disk, then resell 'em for cheap. If you just need a computer, that might be the way to go. Get one of those for a few hundred bucks and throw a copy of Linux on it.

 

[bonz50]

Mac Book. Everything else is a Yugo.

THIS x a billion

 

[Rob1334]

To run vista you need 2GB, simple typo.

Vista is a lot better if you turn half the visual crap off on it under the settings. They do a WAY tom much visual stuff like when you pop a window open it is graphically designed to do it in a smooth way and look all nice (kinda like fade in or out in movie terms, not sure how else to describe it haha)... not needed just like some of the other features it has running in the background...

Sounds like you really dont need a macbook for what you are going to use it for. Would be like taking a $40k chut climbing sled on a local poker run on the trails.

Someone else said something about a NETBOOK and I couldn't agree more. They are cheap, come with XP on it, smaller, and still have lots fo great features, perfect for someone who doesn't need a puter to do a lot of processing or run a ton f programs at once. Most are under $500, and from the sounds of what you use it for would be perfect, .02

 

[shortstop20]

To run vista you need 2GB, simple typo.

Vista is a lot better if you turn half the visual crap off on it under the settings. They do a WAY tom much visual stuff like when you pop a window open it is graphically designed to do it in a smooth way and look all nice (kinda like fade in or out in movie terms, not sure how else to describe it haha)... not needed just like some of the other features it has running in the background...

To add to that. If you disable many of the unneeded services that startup in Vista you can make it way faster, including bootup and shutdown time.

I will be the first to admit Vista kinda sucks right out of the box, but make a few tweaks and it works fine and is better than XP. Whenever someone uses my Vista laptop they always ask me why mine is faster than theirs.