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thinkin bout gettin a laptop.

Postby rickshaw92 » Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:17 pm

What would I need to go with it?
Im reallly fuclimg pissed but fespite that I can still hit a tarfet at 1000m plus. mayVRVe bnot tonight but it qint beyond the wit if man. Nowhammy.
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Re: thinkin bout gettin a laptop.

Postby Woodsman » Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:19 pm

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Re: thinkin bout gettin a laptop.

Postby phasmoid » Mon Mar 09, 2009 6:27 pm

Get a wireless broadband connection. Anywhere your cell gets signal you get internet. Also get a 4 gig flash drive and an external hard drive to "back that thing up".
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Re: thinkin bout gettin a laptop.

Postby marie-angelique » Mon Mar 09, 2009 6:49 pm

what are you going to use it for?
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Re: thinkin bout gettin a laptop.

Postby rickshaw92 » Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:43 pm

marie-angelique wrote:what are you going to use it for?


Other than surfing for porn and postin at the flag? Is there more to the internet than that?
But really.
I was going to use it for playin games and watchin movies, listening to music and photo shoppin photos. The puter would kind of be actin as a home entertainment system. thinkin bout the acer aspire 6930g for 600£ or 40£ per month for 24mos including 3gb per month of internettin.
Im reallly fuclimg pissed but fespite that I can still hit a tarfet at 1000m plus. mayVRVe bnot tonight but it qint beyond the wit if man. Nowhammy.
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Re: thinkin bout gettin a laptop.

Postby 0verbyte » Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:41 pm

i recently purchased this laptop for under $600. i have no complaints with it. it does everything you said you want, although i dont know if you can play games besides online flash games.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834146530
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Postby Chimborazo » Wed Mar 11, 2009 3:12 pm

You should have stopped reading at Woodsman's post.
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Re: thinkin bout gettin a laptop.

Postby nowonmai » Fri Mar 13, 2009 7:34 pm

rickshaw92 wrote:What would I need to go with it?


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Re: thinkin bout gettin a laptop.

Postby Mikethehack » Fri Mar 13, 2009 7:53 pm

You want a laptop?
Let me recommend one these models:
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Re: thinkin bout gettin a laptop.

Postby marie-angelique » Sat Mar 14, 2009 7:32 am

nowhammy has the right idea. if you are going to be looking for porn get some good virus protection :)
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Re: thinkin bout gettin a laptop.

Postby Dr. V » Sat Mar 14, 2009 9:18 pm

Might not be everyone's cup of tea but the last one I bought around 5 years ago was reconditioned from this website and its still going strong. Its the site that most universities recommend to their students and I've never heard bad reports.

http://www.ukstudentlaptops.com/main/vmchk.html
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Re: thinkin bout gettin a laptop.

Postby Woodsman » Sun Mar 15, 2009 12:04 am

vlindsay wrote:Might not be everyone's cup of tea but the last one I bought around 5 years ago was reconditioned from this website and its still going strong. Its the site that most universities recommend to their students and I've never heard bad reports.

http://www.ukstudentlaptops.com/main/vmchk.html


I have bought exactly (1) new laptop in my entire life. It was around $1600 + tax and extras and it was trashed 2 years afterward, but at least I got some reimbursement from Toshiba as a claimant in a class action lawsuit against them for knowing their design of the notebook allowed it to overheat, yet distributing it anyway.

Every other laptop that I have purchased has been refurb models. The most current one is a Dell latitude 1.9 ghz p4 pre-loaded with XP pro. I purchased it for approximately $450 4 years ago. The modem went out on it, but the built in wifi card in it works. It's not the latest and greatest, but it's plenty late and great for all of the productivity software I use (though I wouldn't try running excel solver function with too big of a matrix, also the downside is the hard drive is only a 20gig unit (tiny by todays standards).

Bottom line: refurbs are the way to go for desktop replacements or portable business machines if you don't need something out of the ordinary.

The next one I am going to buy is along the lines of a netbook - either Asus or Acer model. Whatever the smallest sized one with the largest specs are for less than $500, new. Nothing else is needed other than a fitted padded case, some office supplies to go, a several gig flash drive and a small mouse in which the cord auto winds. That would handle all of my needs while en route.
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Re: thinkin bout gettin a laptop.

Postby JamesInTheWorld » Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:01 am

How much do you want to spend?


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Re: thinkin bout gettin a laptop.

Postby Beer » Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:13 pm

If your traveling at all and don't play games or edit a lot of graphics I strongly recommend a netbook. I've owned 4 (3 Asus and one Samsung) of them in the last year and love the form factor. Great for movies on a plane and doing what we do on computers 90% of the time. If there were any drawback it's that they do not come with an optical media (DVD) drive. That's an easy workaround though.

Anyway, the current king of the hill/best buy on netbooks is the Asus 1000HE. It's available on Amazon for less than $400 US and includes a large hard drive, Windows XP, bluetooth, b/g/n/ wireless, 10" screen, 1 GB RAM, dual core 1.6 Ghz processor, and a battery that can last up to 9.5 hours. For less than $25 you can buy a 2GB memory upgrade. It zips along quite nicely with that.

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Re: thinkin bout gettin a laptop.

Postby marie-angelique » Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:26 pm

so do you carry around a portable DVD drive then?
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