laptop recommendations

[NathanMoore]

My laptop crapped out so Im lookin for a replacement. I had a HP DV5000 I bought in 2006, and I wasnt all that impressed with it, although it did serve me alright.

I dont do much on it, just search the net, some work related stuff in MS Office, and download movies and music. But no gaming, and i sometimes, rarely, make some small videos in moviemaker.

I spent way to much on my HP for it to get outdated too fast so this time I dont want to spend so much, somewhere around $500. I looked at bestbuy and saw a few good looking and seemingly well equipped machines for 500. A few toshibas, dells, and such. I saw a gateway with 4gb ram, athalon dual core processor, and like 320gb drive, for $500. Sounds good to me but iv heard a bad rep about gateway.

So any suggestions? Thanks!

 

[Superjet Geoff]

I recently got a Lenovo Ideapad that i'm very happy with. I have the Y450 and splurged on the best featured one. It ended up costing me $1000 but i believe very similarly spec'ed ones with just slightly slower processors were around $700. Free upgrade to Windows 7 as well, or i'm sure they'll all ship with Windows 7 in a few weeks.

good luck.

 

[MADMAT]

Look for a clean perfect DV5000 on Ebay and have spare parts!

 

[Magnum Mike]

I have a few of these at work and they are solid machines.

Lenovo ThinkPad R500 Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 2.4GHz 15.4in Laptop $584.10 Free Shipping

http://www.techbargains.com/query.cfm/product/R500

I'm partial to Thinkpad's because that is all I use at work. A few of the exec's get the lighter and thinner T versions but everyone else gets the R's. Good solid machines.

 

[MADMAT]

I do it all the time and with XP being so great it makes it worth the hunt. Send it to me I'll fix it.

http://computers.shop.ebay.com/Lapt...ptops_Nov05&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_sop=1&_sc=1

 

[boggs]

Lenovo G530 Intel Pentium dual-core T4200(2.00GHz) 15.4" Wide XGA 3GB Memory 250GB HDD
http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=0&t=1558209

Similarly speced toshiba
http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=0&t=1564223

Same specd hp
http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=0&t=1560391



The best deal imo is go to lenovo.com/cpp. type in "familyandfriends". this gets you contractor pricing. and then click value line and look at the G550 the contractor price is $430. its pretty much the same specs as the others but it has 3gb of DDR3 instead of DDr3. If you are looking for a bit more then check out the build your own ideapad y550. i just built one with 2.4ghz core 2 duo, nvidia graphicos card etc for 600.

 

[oxnard111]

I said I never would, but I just bought a MacBook Pro a couple weeks ago. Love it.

 

[soccer8823]

If your looking for a good deal I got a laptop in March off the dell outlet supposedly it had a scratch or something it was in the scratch and dent section got it for $380 supposed to be 7-800 on the regular site...Also if you find a dell coupon even if its a week or so expired call and talk to customer service and tell them thats the deal breaker is whether or not you can use this coupon a family member received or not. They gladly applied it and I think I got an additional 15% off when I got mine

 

[nokfir]

I said I never would, but I just bought a MacBook Pro a couple weeks ago. Love it.

x2...the best computer ive ever had. its hard to use pc's now lol

 

[SuperJETT]

www.slickdeals.net or fatwallet.com and you can find a good deal for $400 or less sometimes.

You could also wait 2 months for the Black Friday deals.

 

[AtomicPunk]

I said I never would, but I just bought a MacBook Pro a couple weeks ago. Love it.

why, what do you like about it?

 

[FyrHazard]

If your looking for a good deal I got a laptop in March off the dell outlet supposedly it had a scratch or something it was in the scratch and dent section got it for $380 supposed to be 7-800 on the regular site...Also if you find a dell coupon even if its a week or so expired call and talk to customer service and tell them thats the deal breaker is whether or not you can use this coupon a family member received or not. They gladly applied it and I think I got an additional 15% off when I got mine

Ditto on the Dell outlet. They still have excellent warranties and the prices are really good compared to new. My last 2 have been from there.

 

[brett]

I do it all the time and with XP being so great it makes it worth the hunt. Send it to me I'll fix it.

http://computers.shop.ebay.com/Lapt...ptops_Nov05&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_sop=1&_sc=1

what makes those so great? im in the market myself

 

[SkiNaked]

I said I never would, but I just bought a MacBook Pro a couple weeks ago. Love it.

I got mine last year. Best computer purchase ever!!!

 

[AtomicPunk]

x3 on the dell outlet.. you can get a XPS Studio 13 for $800-900 that has the same hardware (or better) as the macbook pro for $1600+

don't get me wrong, macbook pros look and feel nice. but apples for apples computing, i'll take the dell

 

[MADMAT]

what makes those so great? im in the market myself

Nothing really special about them...just a good XP machine and he already has one so I was just sayin buy another and fix it and have spare parts to sell or keep.

 

[guiness92]

hey matt whats your website again, I may have a few desktops for you to build soon

 

[NathanMoore]

Thanks for the great replies. Everyone one of em seems good, just gotta figure out which way I wanna go now. I'll lookin into gettin another dv5 for parts too.

Would love to get a mac but just a bit out of my budget, since I just broke my ankle stupidly bad so I'm unemployed for a long while.

Thanks!

 

[MADMAT]

hey matt whats your website again, I may have a few desktops for you to build soon

edgewaterpc.com



I can either ship them or deliver and install them in person if its 3 or more maybe....

 

[gorilla]

has anyone used those new mini laptop's that verzion + at+t are selling ???
i'm getting to the point that i don't want to carry around my 7lb dell laptop anymore.

thanks

get wet
gorilla