Im Finally Getting a Lap Top
 

Dad asked what i wanted for christmas and i told him a best buy gift card to put towards a lap top ..

Well he called me today and said that best buy has some $800 lap tops on sale for $600 this week ...then he said well i dont want to ruin your chirstmas but ill just go ahead and do it , i got you a $600 Best Buy gift card

WHAT?! ... no thats way to much

He said i already got it

Left me feeling all crappy actually , He said he wanted me to go to best buy with him tomarrow and get one , Of course i cant have it untill chritmas :D

Now I Dont know rather to get the compaq , acer, dell or HP ??

Warranty, warranty, warranty. Also, check out what features (RAM, processor, video, sound, screen size, battery cell size) each has. Find out if any of them have a back up OS disc and not some cheesy recovery discs, like ahem hm hm hm HP. Also, find out if they fixed the battery recall. Up to you, but find out about Toshiba. Ran two of em, and they were the shiz. No problems what so ever!!

$650 is the most Im going on this any more tips ?

Say no to Dell, I use a Toshiba at home. I have a couple of Sony's at the office and the wife uses a HP. Of all of them I like my Toshiba the best.

All that said, when this one crashes I am making the switch to an Apple.

my wife uses a hp for work doing programing and she has not had any probs I'm not suer of the cost :humm:

despite my father working for HP, lol, dont get one, i know of at least three, including mine, that have a nasty overheating problem. if i watch a movie or play a game it heats up and crashes the graphics card, turning the screen a lovely shade of green. :argh:

wow i dont want that , Just About Everyone in Chat said HP

i like my compaq i have at home, of course me being so computer illiterate...the guy at staples asked me what i wanted and i was like um...can i get on the internetwith this one and it be fast and have adequate memory, he said yeah...i said ok box it up :D

You took the words right out of my mouth !


My Uncle just sent his HP away - it was off warranty and they replaced the motherboard for free.

As far as I know HP is the same thing as Compaq = same company.

FWIW, when I got my laptop - I originally bought a Toshiba Satelight - pulled it out of the box and it had dead pixles. Pulled three more out of the boxes at the store and they ALL had dead pixles.

That being said, my HP has a dead DVD drive and Ive probably burned 2 disks and read from maybe 10 others. They dont make laptops like they used to. The ones you get today are disposables (just like everything else).

As far as I can tell, the overheating issues are from the laptops that have the NVIDIA chip in them (discrete graphics) and not anything with either an Intel or AMD chip in it. I have had a few HP laptops over the years, and have been overall satisfied with them.
mishkaya

Haven't had a problem with the DELL xps I had and it endured 3 years on a ship. Now that it's getting old I'm thinking about a Toshiba or HP only because they seem to be priced better for the features. The only one I know to stay away from is Acer we have them at work and there's constantly something wrong with one of them.

I have 2 HP 17" laptops and they work good. The extended warranty is worth it's weight in gold.
Try to get one with XP and not Vista:puke:

I would love to find a computer that still comes with XP, vista sucks!!
Just built my home computer, you can get the XP OS on newegg.com for cheap

Guess what im on right now? :choochoo:

Santa came early

HP - Laptop with AMD Turion™ X2 Dual-Core Mobile Processor RM-70 - G60-125nr

It come with an OS cd, just in case you need to reinstall? Other than that, looks like a nice machine.

nice :U:

thanks i havent looked in the box yet :D

i read one of the reviews and it said you have to burn your own back up disk ?

its going to take sometime to get use to this thing ive never had a laptop before

seems to be pretty cool :U:

IDK, but I think you can only do 1 backup disc and that's it. So if it's the only way to reinstall/repair the system and it fails along the way, your stuck in the mud.

Im with Aaron here.. Ive had alot of laptops of all brands.. Toshiba, Dells (for work, I would never buy one) HP's, Compaq's, and a couple Sonys... out of them all the Toshiba was always the most reliable..

With HP, they are a great machine, but I dont like the recovery disc setup they have going..

DM.. BE SURE TO MAKE THOSE RECOVERY DISCS ASAP!!! and put them in a safe place where they cant be messed with and scratched..

and when my HP's and Toshiba and Sony dies this time.. Im going Apple..

Its a little known fact, but there are only a HANDFUL of viruses/adware/malware/spywares written for the Mac OS.. on the other hand, there are THOUSANDS written daily for windows based machines.. Linux is much more stable, its fluid, smoother, faster and more efficient.

The apples are a lot of $$ too ,

As for the back up , no disk but there a paper that says

What happens when you have to reformat the hard drive because of malicious code or the recover doesn't grab hold? Seems like your only defense is a backup disc.

its walks me threw a back up disk as well im going to make one now

Congrats. Mobile porn is nice. :upup:

AWESOME!!!

Maybe next year he will get you A DAMN CELL PHONE!!!


:D

i dunno rswords, I kinda feel that the greatest pleasure s in life could be living without a cell phone :D m Nice laptop there dm, got yourself a good one, now you need to get a friend at best buy to use their crapware remover to get rid of allthe trial junk, and then tweak it to only run what ya need on startup

I think i just about have all there junk off here

I bought an Acer Aspire 3680 about a year ago for about $450 after rebates, and I am happy with it... Nothing special, but it gets the job done, and I haven't had any issues with it.
Scott

IBM Thinkpad for me. Works great.

AMEN !!

Im not impressed with AMD Processor's..... Intels are much better......

My Dell was $599 but I ended up spending $900 with the accidental warranty.