Laptops, best & worst |
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 Aug 29 2006, 01:06 AM
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 You say you eat fucking hearts for breakfast.  Group: Member Posts: 662 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 28,026  |
So kids...I need a laptop for college.
What company makes the best/worst laptops? My sister is giving me her old Compaq, but my friends keep telling me that's a bad design. What do you guys have - good or bad? i just realized i didnt search the forum for this. but whatev |
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| *mipadi* |
Aug 29 2006, 01:09 AM
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I'll probably get flamed for this eventually, but I've been really happy with the Apple laptops I've owned, and the new Macbooks are really nice. Plus you can run OS X and Windows on them, so they're quite versatile.
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Aug 29 2006, 01:13 AM
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^^ yeah apple/mac books... my school actually lets us 'rent' a laptop for a year [or longer] for only 50 bucks? or a little more [under 100]... it gets us prepared for college in some ways.
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Aug 29 2006, 01:13 AM
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Compaq laptops are crap. The keyboard gets messed up pretty easily.
Yeah, MacBooks are pretty cool. I have one and I think it's pretty good for school.. Just don't get an iBook or PowerBook. They have bad batteries (exploding ones) from Sony. What I really want is an Alienware laptop, but those are expensive.. |
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| *mipadi* |
Aug 29 2006, 08:06 AM
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QUOTE(rawr SOCK @ Aug 29 2006, 2:13 AM)  Yeah, MacBooks are pretty cool. I have one and I think it's pretty good for school.. Just don't get an iBook or PowerBook. They have bad batteries (exploding ones) from Sony. iBooks and PowerBooks are not sold anymore, and only a small number are affected by the problem, so it's nothing to worry about. |
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Aug 29 2006, 12:58 PM
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You say you eat fucking hearts for breakfast. Group: Member Posts: 662 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 28,026 |
what would you say a good price would be for a good notebook?
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Aug 29 2006, 01:11 PM
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 Nikkie Group: Member Posts: 2,336 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 28,991 |
i have the new mac book pro and i got it for college and i love it =] i had an old gateway from like 4 years a go its absoulte crap.
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Aug 29 2006, 01:27 PM
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. Group: Member Posts: 3,264 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 761 |
I'd say somewhere around $800-$1200 is a good price.
If you're low on cash, I'd suggest Toshiba. I like their laptops :) |
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Aug 29 2006, 01:41 PM
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I was thinking of getting a macbook pro, but I realized I couldn't afford one. Instead I settled for an Acer Aspire 5670, which was a whole lotta bang for my buck. It destroys my desktop in benchmarks and it was $1,070. I think the new Aspire came out though, so I'm not sure if the 5670 is still being sold.
If anyone gets a 5670, be sure to format to NTFS and combine the partitions. |
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