Posted April 28, 201015 yr hey guys, im looking for a new laptop for the parents. budget is 600 tops. i would rather spend about 500 but i'd like to see them get a real nice laptop since they are very slow to upgrade... their dell single core desktop finally died... its like 7 years old probably... their looking for a laptop, not one of those shitty 10" screen POS deals.. heres what ive turned up. gateway $600asus dual core $550 asus K60I-RBBBR05here is the guide i used to pick them out... i havent found much help from online websites that keep up with laptops... dell offerings w/ i3
April 28, 201015 yr I just got a gateway NV79 on sale a few months ago for less then $550. Pretty good bang for the buck.
April 28, 201015 yr Author I just got a gateway NV79 on sale a few months ago for less then $550. Pretty good bang for the buck.thats what the gateway link is suppose to be.. not sure why its not work for me... price right now at bestbuy is 600. where did you find yours?
April 28, 201015 yr HP ProBook 4510s WH326UT Notebook PC - Intel Pentium Dual-Core T4400 2.2GHz, 3GB DDR3, 250GB HDD, DVDRW, 15.6" Display, Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit at TigerDirect.comAcer Aspire AS5740-5255 LX.PM902.131 Notebook PC - Intel Core i3-330M 2.13GHz, 4GB DDR3, 320GB HDD, DVDRW, 15.6" Display, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, Blue at TigerDirect.comAcer Aspire Timeline AS5810TZ-4274 LX.PDM0X.092 Notebook PC - Intel Pentium ULV SU2700 1.3GHz, 3GB DDR3, 320GB HDD, DVDRW, 15.6" LED, VHP (Open Box) at TigerDirect.comToshiba Satellite Pro L450-EZ1510 PSLY1U-01J010 Notebook PC - Intel Core 2 Duo T6570 2.1GHz, 2GB DDR3, 250GB HDD, DVDRW, 15.6" Display, Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit, Silver at TigerDirect.comNewegg.com - Gateway NV5462u NoteBook Intel Pentium T4400(2.20GHz) 15.6" 4GB Memory DDR2 667 320GB HDD 5400rpm DVD Super Multi Intel GMA 4500MHDThese are all pretty good.
April 28, 201015 yr Dont get a Toshiba.Thats what I replaced was a satalite something another and it would fry the fuck out of your nutz if you surf with it on your lap.
April 28, 201015 yr Author i think id like to push them up to the i3 laptops. their at the top end of their budget but i think that translates into a stronger laptop. they also come with larger hdd's and faster ramm along with the i3. i found the acer for 550 after mail in rebate.. on compusa
April 28, 201015 yr Author also 550 on circuitcity.com... i forgot they still were in business after their store closed in the area. lol its an open box.. not sure about that tho.. Acer Aspire AS5740-5255 Notebook PC (Open Box) at CircuitCity.comedit... compusa has it open box aswell.... same price... wana bet they use the same source or warehouse or some shit...
April 28, 201015 yr I am an Asus fan. If you want an i3 core look at their web sight and see what they have that might fit your needs better.
April 28, 201015 yr I got my grandma a 15" Dell with I think a 2.2ghz processor, 500 gig HD, 4 gigs RAM, and Windows 7 for $549 at Walmart. It was a little over $600 after tax. I thought it was pretty nice though. It doesn't compare to my new laptop though. Mines about 5 months old. Dell 17" 2.66 ghz dual core processor, 4 gigs ram, 320 gig HD (fixing to upgrade to dual 600 gigs), bluetooth, etc. I gave $1200 for mine, but I think its worth it.
April 29, 201015 yr Dont get a Toshiba.Thats what I replaced was a satalite something another and it would fry the fuck out of your nutz if you surf with it on your lap.hmm I've never had that problem with my toshiba. Mine does have a weak battery though. Damn thing only lasted like a year, now all i get is like a 10 minutes under full charge.
April 29, 201015 yr Author Dont get a Toshiba.Thats what I replaced was a satalite something another and it would fry the fuck out of your nutz if you surf with it on your lap.hmm I've never had that problem with my toshiba. Mine does have a weak battery though. Damn thing only lasted like a year, now all i get is like a 10 minutes under full charge.ouch... my mac is still strong after 1.5 years. i have an app that read off various readings and says its at 88% health
April 29, 201015 yr also 550 on circuitcity.com... i forgot they still were in business after their store closed in the area. lol its an open box.. not sure about that tho.. Acer Aspire AS5740-5255 Notebook PC (Open Box) at CircuitCity.comedit... compusa has it open box aswell.... same price... wana bet they use the same source or warehouse or some shit...lol funny story about that...Tiger Direct bought CompUSA when they went out of business...that's why they seem like they're the same. Then, when Circuit City went under, they were bought up by CompUSA. A bankrupt company bought a bankrupt company...only in America...Get a Dell laptop, then upgrade the components on your own. You could skip on things like a huge hard drive (get them an external HDD for backup, while you're at it, and show them how to use it) or 4GBs of RAM for the moment, and buy them a year or two down the road. My old Dell laptop is running a 1.8 Athlon dual core with 2GBs of RAM and it's decently quick with Win7. For general web browsing, playing music, etc it's just fine. It won't play games and Photoshop is slow if you try and open 15 pics at a time.
April 29, 201015 yr You should check out the Dell outlet. Sometimes you can get great deals. I got the perfect laptop for me for $500 shipped two months ago. It was awesome.
April 29, 201015 yr Author i think i've narrowed things down to one of these three.asus $550 smaller screen then the gateway but longer battery lifegateway nv7915u w/ i3 for 600 downside is poor battery but bigger screenacer aspire... cant find reviews on this model yet... must be too new since its running the i3 reviews of the older model with the intel dual core are pretty good
April 29, 201015 yr Get a mini pc and run ubuntu on it and I saw a laptop for around 500 on the www.tigerdirect.com website front page
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