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Post subject: Where is the best place to buy a laptop from?
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I think the thread title says it all.
But I'm looking into purchasing a laptop, if you have any suggestions
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| Costco, if anything goes wrong return it no questions asked for a full cash refund even 6 months down the road. |
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| Wed Nov 17, 2004 3:55 pm |
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Just remember to avoid IBooks or anything by apple. They have never folllowed the phrase "bang for your buck'.
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| Wed Nov 17, 2004 4:11 pm |
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The iBook is immune to windows viruses and worms, blocks popups/spyware, is UNIX-level stable, reads and writes Word and Excel files, comes with critically-acclaimed photo and video editing software, MIDI and audio loop music creation software, Quicken, World Book, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4, has a CD burner and a DVD player, built-in ethernet, firewire, USB 2, dialup modem, VGA and S-Video out, wireless 802.11g networking, up to 5 hours of battery life, and is 4.6 pounds.
...And it costs $999.
$949 for college students.
PC Magazine agrees:
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| the Apple iBook G4 (12-inch) can't be beat—especially for the price. It, too, warrants an Editors' Choice. |
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| Wed Nov 17, 2004 6:50 pm |
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Shhhhhhhh
they don't know that
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| Wed Nov 17, 2004 7:33 pm |
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The iBook can't play Half-Life 2. My Inspiron XPS can.
Dell makes good ones- from gaming ones ("desktop replacements") to ultra-cheap-but-bulkier-then-a-better-one types.
Alienware is better than Dell if you want a gaming machine.
This place has Japanese imports. Expensive (more expensive than a gaming laptop) but high quality.
Dynamism
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| Wed Nov 17, 2004 9:29 pm |
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My advice is to have a relative who gets new computer equipment fairly often, then get their old stuff. That's how I ended up with my piece of crap TC1000. Getting a smaller laptop is good since it's more likely to fit in backpacks and whatnot.
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| Wed Nov 17, 2004 10:11 pm |
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DON"T GO DELL.
My Dell Inspiron 9100 crashes almost daily. And it's 3 months old. And I've done nothing that would cause it that much stress. No real gaming aside from flash games. iTunes sometiems crashes it. iTUNES!nnI run a constant firewall and antivirus and scan my computer about every other week for adware and viruses.
Seriously, don't go Dell. Not worth it.
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| Wed Nov 17, 2004 11:06 pm |
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duh, dell is never worth it
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| Sat Nov 20, 2004 3:02 am |
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*hugs his Dell Laptop*
Stop saying such hurtful things >.>. I got my laptop for my birthday last year, and while it cna't play the latest games at top specs now, it can sitll play them at a pretty solid framerate.
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| Sat Nov 20, 2004 10:03 am |
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FDD is right!
I got mine in June, and it works great. I can't crank Half-Life 2 all the way up to the max, but I can get damn close. Dell is almost always worth it.
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| Sat Nov 20, 2004 2:34 pm |
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I've heard more complaints about brand new Dells than any other brand. I got one anyways. And it pisses me off near daily. I use Firefox, have a great firewall. run Norton and Adaware weekly, and it still crashes once a day, and every now and then decide that it hates windows and won't load it. And it's 3 months old. There is no excuse for that. Seriously, I've done nothing wrong to my machine and it hates me.
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Play City of Heroes/Villians? Look me up, Pinnacle server, @C Paradox |
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| Sat Nov 20, 2004 3:13 pm |
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Have you called tech support or had one of your friends who knows more about computers than Bill Gates look at it?
There's probably a reason why it hates the world.
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| Sat Nov 20, 2004 3:15 pm |
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Tech support? No. Friends that know almost everything there is ot know about computers? Yes. I stumped my school's senior year comp sci majors with the continual crashing of my computer. It's quite the accomplishment considering that its not something I tried to do. They honestyl had no idea what was wrong.
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| Sat Nov 20, 2004 3:30 pm |
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Playing devil's advocate:
You hear more about Dell failures because Dell sells the most computers in the world.
Everybody should read Consumer Reports' latest issue. They have good looks at technical support from the main computer companies.
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| Sat Nov 20, 2004 4:20 pm |
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