Broken Laptop/New desktop Options

[Maccabee]

Well my laptop recently broke. I dont know what happened. I just updated and when I restarted, it seemed like all services were off and here was nohing I could do. Sysm restore wouldnt work, sound wouldnt work, themes wouldnt work, its now using windows classic. But anyways was prett fed up with my oxymoron of a laptop. 17 inches. I had always gone into sams club and just choosen the best laptop of the 4 sitting there but i am NOT doing that again. Im going to be buying online. O and I should be able to get an exchange for my non working laptop. They will probabl give me 750 dollars store credit. So... You can tell me how to fix my laptop if you want but I would rather take it in, not working, so I will have something to use to get the store credit. (im a jew...)

So first of all, I want your opinion on whether I should get a laptop or a desktop, I think I am going to get them because they are uch more comfortable for me and because I can get such higher specs.

O and even though I have 750 dollars My budget max is about 900. I use computer everyday so i might as well spend a little money.

Second I need help choosing one. I think I only need help choosing a desktop.

I can only choose from walmart and samsclub because tha is where the store credit works.

Walmart desktops...
http://www.walmart.com/browse/Computers/De...elected_items=+

Sams club desktops...
http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/navigate....=1&sortby=2

If it asks fo you to choose a club put in the zip code 76262 and choose the grapevine one.

I also fancy the ones without monitors so I can choose my own... i reall liked on that had a 2.8ghz qaud core processor and 6gb ram but it was amd... isnt amd worse?

Tanks :)

[Maccabee]

That desktop is an extra 16 dollars, it has .1 ghz processor power left, and the mouse and keyboard are uglier. And I cant return it in 3 years to get the latest technology for no cost to me! What wrong with prebuilts?! I just need help choosing between the prebuilts! And why would I buy from newegg instead of sams club when I can get the exact same thing at sames for the exact same price.

How about this...just tell me which is better. Amd or intel? I prefer intel just because they are more popular, but... idk.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

That desktop is an extra 16 dollars, it has .1 ghz processor power left, and the mouse and keyboard are uglier. And I cant return it in 3 years to get the latest technology for no cost to me! What wrong with prebuilts?! I just need help choosing between the prebuilts! And why would I buy from newegg instead of sams club when I can get the exact same thing at sames for the exact same price.

How about this...just tell me which is better. Amd or intel? I prefer intel just because they are more popular, but... idk.

The Athlon II I put in that build is a retooled Phenom II (aka one of the best processors on the market), the only difference is the smaller cache.
But it's not just the processor. I gave you faster RAM (and more of it), better case, better PSU, better GPU, better motherboard, and a faster hard drive. With this you have a computer that preforms ten times better, and will last at least twice as long.



And no bloatware.


Also, Intel has the fastest mainstream processor, but unless you're buying an i7 Extreme for $999, AMD offers the same performance for a cheaper price.






also fyi: GHz is not the only thing that makes a processor fast. You can get a Celeron to 5.5 GHz on air, but it's still not going to perform as well as a 2.8 GHz Phenom II


And you can't get the same thing from Sam's Club for the same price. All prebuilt brands skimp out on important parts of the computer. Like they'll give you DDR2 667 instead of DDR2 800, or they'll give you a cheap $15 PSU that goes jihad on you and takes out the entire system with it. Or they give you a 5200 RPM hard drive. Or they give you a DVD-ROM drive instead of a DVD burner. Or they give you a cheap motherboard with that they built themselves so you can't upgrade when you need to.


An advantage of buying prebuilt is that, as long as the medium doesn't go out of fashion, the computer is completely upgradable. And AM2+, PCIe, and DDR2 aren't going to go out of fashion anytime soon. 100% of prebuilt manufacturers use proprietary parts, meaning you if you ever want to upgrade, either it's not going to happen, or you have to pay out the ass for more ddr2 667, 5200 rpm drives, and jihad PSUs.




Tl;dr: Prebuilt is for the computer illiterate.