Good Laptop - Brands And Models

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I have to buy a new laptop and my limit is $500.00. I just need a workhorse, Don't need it for games or movies or porn(well maybe a little bit of nudity but it's only becuase I sometimes inadvertantly click on a boobie site).

Any suggestions of which brand(S) would suit my needs and are there any good online sites that are cheaper than the Big Boxes? If you know of a particular model that would really help too.

Thanks

 
I wish you live closer to me because I have a nice HP i5 2.7ghz CPU,  8GB of RAM and 320GB hard drive laptop for sale for $450.   It is brand new as I buy surpluses from a large party (I can'[t mention who)

 
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I like Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba and lastly HP.   Acer is OK but cheap.   Just make sure you are getting at least Intel i3 CPU and 8GB of RAM.  I am sure you can find those at $500.

 
Don't get AMD.. they are too slow to my taste compared to i3/i5/i7

 
I would check out newegg.com,  tigerdirect.com and maybe eBay (buy from powersellers only)

 
Actually  Microsoftstore.com is a great place for laptops although they do charge sales tax but they offer free returns on everything in case you're disappointed with it.

 
I just spend 15 minutes writing a nice post and as usual I hit some key and the screen went somewhere else and I lost everything. Never happenings with a real keyboard. I'm not redoing it.

All I will say is I presently own a Toshiba Satellite 875D?

 
headbanger said:
I just spend 15 minutes writing a nice post and as usual I hit some key and the screen went somewhere else and I lost everything. Never happenings with a real keyboard. I'm not redoing it.

All I will say is I presently own a Toshiba Satellite 875D?
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Hi HB,

OMG I wrote a long, articulate email to a place telling them they suck, and it was in one of those popup comments, and i twitched and hit enter when i was really getting into it, so it sent when I was halfway through. There was no way for me to get the text i already sent, and just gave up. Now i learned to write all my shit in a draft email so i can copy and paste (yet I’m an idiot and not doing that now, lol).

Anyway,you live in NY? My IT friend has a shit ton of machines he customizes and then he says he’s gonna sell them and they just sit around. I don’t know much about PCs anymore, but he specifically mentioned the Lenovo Laptop being awesome that he upgraded and was looking to sell it.

Also, two sites I buy parts for My macs on (My IT friends call me a gear head, lol) have PC Laptops for good prices. One that is insanely cheap is gainsaver.com and the other is pcpartsohio.com. PC Parts Ohio is a third party seller i was using on newegg.com called PC Parts unlimited. It’s cheaper to get through the guy on his site. He even negotiated the price down because i left shit sitting in my cart. You can try that approach, leave it in overnight. I always take forever to buy shit. I even had quickpharmas harassing me for a week because I had something in my cart and changed my mind. Oh shit i went off topic, lol. I don’t want to be one of those turds that people cringe when i post, so i bet after today i will be stealth again. 

Also a bigger store that has good sales and is all computer shit is microcenter.com. They have two stores in NY and other ones around the country, but you can order shit online too.

I can’t PM you because I never talk on this shit, but you can PM me if need any more help, although I don’t even know what happens when you get one and i might not realize it’s there. lol. Hope this helps!

Jen

 
headbanger said:
I just spend 15 minutes writing a nice post and as usual I hit some key and the screen went somewhere else and I lost everything. Never happenings with a real keyboard. I'm not redoing it.

All I will say is I presently own a Toshiba Satellite 875D?
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That is a decent laptop.     As for your trouble,  make sure you installed touchpad drivers for palmcheck or whatever it's called.

 
Just don't get an overpriced Macs.. they are just toys to me /default_tongue.png

 
I'll go to my grave before I buy an Apple product.

Thanks for help everyone.

I can't get stuck on Consumers Reports ratings. If I go with Levono, HP, or Dell I don't have to buy CR's recommended model. They are all good brands. Levono's a bit pricey for me though.

I may go back to Toshiba case they have the John Holmes size screen. I don't need bells and whistles just something with decent speed and a big monitor.

 

 
headbanger said:
I'll go to my grave before I buy an Apple product.

Thanks for help everyone.

I can't get stuck on Consumers Reports ratings. If I go with Levono, HP, or Dell I don't have to buy CR's recommended model. They are all good brands. Levono's a bit pricey for me though.

I may go back to Toshiba case they have the John Holmes size screen. I don't need bells and whistles just something with decent speed and a big monitor.

 
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HP is always solid.  I would stay away from Intel given that the NSA likes to put tracking chips and keyloggers in random models.  Just something I heard.

 
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Here is my computer IQ.

I just bought a stylist for my Nexus Tablet(bought 2+ years ago so I'm not that far behind).

Which end of this damn thing do I use? The soft end or the hard end?

Thanks

 
Reznor said:
Just don't get an overpriced Macs.. they are just toys to me /default_tongue.png
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Well MMMkkayyyy  /default_tongue.gif. I’m a graphic designer, so in college i switched because that’s what the industry uses and we were taught on. Now I’ll never get a disposable PC turd again. My 2011 3.4 ghz i7 Quad is faster than most new PCs now. And i just put in a solid state drive and 32 GB of ram, so that thing flies. I’ll be able to resell it for a decent amount of money when I’m ready to buy another. My 2008 iMac still runs great, I use it as a backup. They cost a lot more, but you get what you pay for. It’s investing in something that will last a long time. I know it’s not practical to get a mac if you don’t need to use it for media, but you can always get rid of windows and make your PC a hackintosh with the better OS. AND That shit is free, no need to pay for it or get a serial hack. lol. You shouldn’t be hating on apple anyway, your namesake is the Chief Creative Officer for their Beats music thing. He’s part of the machine now.
Ha ha. 

headbanger said:
I'll go to my grave before I buy an Apple product.

Thanks for help everyone.

I can't get stuck on Consumers Reports ratings. If I go with Levono, HP, or Dell I don't have to buy CR's recommended model. They are all good brands. Levono's a bit pricey for me though.

I may go back to Toshiba case they have the John Holmes size screen. I don't need bells and whistles just something with decent speed and a big monitor.

 
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Well if you can splurge on the extra 29 dollars, here is a link to one i just found that has the newest processors. Is 15.4†John Holmes enough, or just Ron Jeremy? lol.
 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834318436h

 

 
Thanks for all the advice but what about my stylist question?

Jenni you're comparing a 10" Netbook to a 17''+Toshiba. Being the lady that you are you would probably not be able to relate to the two different screen sizes.

 
headbanger said:
Thanks for all the advice but what about my stylist question?

Jenni you're comparing a 10" Netbook to a 17''+Toshiba. Being the lady that you are you would probably not be able to relate to the two different screen sizes.
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Oh shit yours is a 17� It’s gonna be hard… um difficult to find a machine with the larger screen without sacrificing some of the speed. Actually it’s not 15.4†it’s 15.6,†so that’s not off by much. Bitch please, I don’t know where they get that girls don’t care about size. My girlfriends and I would talk shit, we were worse than our guy friends. lol. But that might just be me, being such a classy brawwwd. lol

I don’t know shit about using a stylus. It;s gotta be the soft side though, so it doesn’t scratch the screen. Some of the designers I worked with have something called a wacom tablet where you had a digital pen and drew on the pad off to the side and it would show up on screen. I just couldn’t do it for some reason, only with the mouse or a real pen on paper directly. I am also not as saavy with the mobile devices and swiping and typing on touch screens. It took me a long time to reply to my mom’s texts. She’s more into that shit than me. It freaked me out at first. lol. I’m an old school computer nerd, it’s hard for me to carry shit small shit around and focus on it like I can sitting at my desk. I must be too ADD. lol. 

 
Ron Jeremy = 10" Netbook

John Holmes = 17"+ Toshiba

Me, I'm a Google  Nexus 7 tablet.

 
jennifernt said:
Well MMMkkayyyy  /default_tongue.gif. I’m a graphic designer, so in college i switched because that’s what the industry uses and we were taught on. Now I’ll never get a disposable PC turd again. My 2011 3.4 ghz i7 Quad is faster than most new PCs now. And i just put in a solid state drive and 32 GB of ram, so that thing flies. I’ll be able to resell it for a decent amount of money when I’m ready to buy another. My 2008 iMac still runs great, I use it as a backup. They cost a lot more, but you get what you pay for. It’s investing in something that will last a long time. I know it’s not practical to get a mac if you don’t need to use it for media, but you can always get rid of windows and make your PC a hackintosh with the better OS. AND That shit is free, no need to pay for it or get a serial hack. lol. You shouldn’t be hating on apple anyway, your namesake is the Chief Creative Officer for their Beats music thing. He’s part of the machine now.

Ha ha. 

Well if you can splurge on the extra 29 dollars, here is a link to one i just found that has the newest processors. Is 15.4” John Holmes enough, or just Ron Jeremy? lol.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834318436h


 
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I always been hating Apple for a LONG time /default_smile.png  Way before we even heard of iPods.   They do makes excellent laptops no doubt about that but there are also excellent PC high end laptops.    Part of it is the operating system itself, OS X.   First of all, I have an old Toshiba C2D 2.2Ghz/4GB laptop running the latest OS X Yosemite - that you would call a hackintosh.   I use it just for my Mac repairs (file recovery for one)  Anyway,   the way OS X works is off putting to me.  I'm not fond of its UI quirkness - not to say Windows didn't have it but Windows works very well for my needs.  I don't even have an antivirus installed but I know what I am doing when using Windows (I also run a local computer repair shops servicing PCs and Macs).  I also use Linux daily - it's really awesome as CLI.  GUI not so much.  I know some would disagree but Windows UI is W A Y better than Linux and OS X GUI IMO.

But mainly the reason why I "hate" Apple even more are the overpriced oversized phone called "iPad"s and the way Apple/Tech media been harping, it will end the PC which I laughed at the time and still lauhing now.   A Windows x86 tablets are much more funcational than iPads and Androids because it runs full OS unlike iOS/Android...

 
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