bluedogz
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cwill said:
If you want you can try some cheap RAM from a place like Crucial.com. Also, if you have a small HDD and have VM turned on that is a boat anchor too.
Help me pick a laptop.
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If you want you can try some cheap RAM from a place like Crucial.com. Also, if you have a small HDD and have VM turned on that is a boat anchor too.
I'm thinking of getting a laptop soon, I have a small netbook at the moment which is great for taking on holidays but somewhat limited.
I'm not too concerned about make, I think the advice of go look and get hands on is good, for me a big factor in choice will be the feel of the keyboard as I'm a typist.
As these days there are more and more things to cram onto it I want a fairly big hard drive (might go for 500 GB). I'd have at least 4GB RAM.
One thing I want is to play back downloaded movies through connecting to the TV so an HDMI port is a must, I suggest having one of those. With my mobile phone (Orange) they do a free movie download each week.
Consider battery life (will you take it out of the house a lot)?
They run Windows 7 now, I prefer the old Windows XP but you will soon get used to it. I wouldn't get a pre-owned that runs Windows Vista it wasn't very popular.
Fifi
I'm not too concerned about make, I think the advice of go look and get hands on is good, for me a big factor in choice will be the feel of the keyboard as I'm a typist.
As these days there are more and more things to cram onto it I want a fairly big hard drive (might go for 500 GB). I'd have at least 4GB RAM.
One thing I want is to play back downloaded movies through connecting to the TV so an HDMI port is a must, I suggest having one of those. With my mobile phone (Orange) they do a free movie download each week.
Consider battery life (will you take it out of the house a lot)?
They run Windows 7 now, I prefer the old Windows XP but you will soon get used to it. I wouldn't get a pre-owned that runs Windows Vista it wasn't very popular.
Fifi
search for laptops over at slickdeals.net
All the deals are rated by users. I'd try to get into the newer generation intel line i3, i5, i7. I imagine you can get a pretty solid i3 machine for under $400.
All the deals are rated by users. I'd try to get into the newer generation intel line i3, i5, i7. I imagine you can get a pretty solid i3 machine for under $400.
Adabiviak
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Yeah... I'd get a new one. Like most posters here have already mentioned, almost anything in the $200-$300 range at your local brick and mortar should be fine. If you find one you're interested in and aren't sure about it, post the specs here, and we'll look it over.cwill said:
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