| Author | Message | ||
     Kenney83 |
I am looking for a laptop. I don't know what is the best kind. it needs to pretty durable. it is mostly going to be used for videos, movies, and some iternet usage. I am looking spend between 4-$600. any suggestions would be great. thanks for the help/ steve | ||
| Iamike |
When you said 'durable' I was thinking 'Panasonic toughbook', bu they cost a little more than $600. I've had a Dell Inspiron for three years but it costs more too. Good luck | ||
| Ulywife |
Check out www.newegg.com. My brother-in-law has had good luck with them. We were ready to order one from them when we had a free Dell Inspiron fall in our lap. Needless to say, we took the Dell. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
 goin old skoolz | ||
| Steve_mackay |
http://www.ecost.com/Detail.aspx?source=k16440&cm_ mmc=Affiliates-_-Performics-_-k16440-_-Append%20ed p&edp=42273082 | ||
| Gsilvernale |
You can find them, they will typically NOT be on display at Best Buy - but if you go to Best Buy online, you will find them. Then go to your local best buy and tell them you want the one that you found on line. | ||
| Dummkauf |
If you're looking for ultra portable and cheap this will work http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=ace r+aspire+one&cid=8071025045080214327&sa=title#ps-s ellers Note that there's no DVD or CD drive on that thing(no room) so movies would have to be ripped and copied to it's hard drive. I have one of these I use for traveling and it works great, but I wouldn't use it as my main PC...too small | ||
| Seanp |
You need to get into one of those "Laptop Hunters" commercials that Microsoft is running. | ||
| Rsh |
Look around on the Dell site. They have some descent deals going on, and within your price range. http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx /laptops_great_deals?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs | ||
| Johnnymceldoo |
I was wanting an itouch but after seeing the acer aspire one laptops at walmart I got one of those instead. Very compact but easy to type on and read the screen. Mine fits right in my chase harper tank bag. You can get a 160 gig for about $300. | ||
| Ponti1 |
Go for one of these...Small enough to take anywhere you want, and cheap enough to throw away if it dies. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTool s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4348755&CatId=3988 | ||
| Iamike |
My kids gave me an itouch for my birthday last week (wow!) It is great for a lot of things buy many web pages are too small to read. I guess some are set up to read large when an itouch connects to them and they work great. The keypad is hard to use and takes time to do much entry. Other than that I love the wireless. It has a vpn that I can use for work but I haven't tried to set it up yet. | ||
| Corporatemonkey |
For $600 you are going to have a difficult time finding a durable notebook. One of the first areas that gets cost cut is the structural frame. I can't tell you how many cheap dells I have been though over the years. Almost everyone of them had keyboard or motherboard failure, due to frame flex. I have had little trouble with the older (real) IBM thinkpads. But for real durability I have found apple macbooks (pro too) to be about the most durable machine next to a Panasonic tough book. If you don't need the absolute latest, look at a year or two old machine that was high end at the time. It will probably match performance wise a new cheap computer. | ||
| Midknyte |
Check this out  http://www.macomp.com/companiontouch.asp This is based on an Intel reference design. It's being re-branded and sold under at least two names so far (M&A and Nobi so far to my knowledge). Available on order from CDW. The above is a netbook sized computer that is very close in overall size to the Acer Inspire One netbook. A very portable size. It's designed for students, so it's been ruggedize'd a good bit. Has splash resistent keyboard. Padded harddrive mounting. Thicker plastics. The standard variety of netbooks currently on the market will see convertible table varieties like this one over the next year, but they will still be rather fragile compared to this one. It has reveresable, convert to tablet touch screen (stylus included) with a custom handwriting recognition app that ain't too bad. Acceleromenter orients screen to the aspect you are holding it in. It also has a rotating (front/back) facing webcam. Built-in wireless networking, plus a wired port. Two USB ports and an SD card slot. No PC Card slot. It has a near standard sized mousepad area with good real buttons. The keyboard though is narrow from top to bottom because of this and typing can be tedius in some adult hands. VGA out connector and USB would allow you to dock it with a regular size keyboard & screen for heavy or regular usage at your desk/cube. Base pricing starts around $499 w/ 60gig drive. I'd reccommend bumping it up from XP Home to XP Pro (adds about $100) and you might consider adding another gig of ram (from 1 up to 2, adds about $75). I bought one of these for my oldest son (highschooler). It's a good little machine and I'm sorely tempted to get another one for myself. My biggest real complaint with it is that it lacks dedicated scroll buttons on the bezel for use when in tablet mode (gotta use the stylus instead). | ||
| Alii1959 |
Try looking for a used Apple MacBook. Mine have been very durable and trouble-free. I think that you might be better served buying and older previously upscale model at a lower price than the throw away stuff for sale at cheap prices in the retail stores. | ||
| Gunut75 |
geeks.com has some good deals. | ||
| Slaughter |
Given the OP's original needs, I'd also think that maybe a decent used laptop since he's only using for some internet and video/DVD watching (not creating/editing). I have 3 laptops that I use as "beaters." Haven't paid more thn $200. I use a Gateway for my dyno room tuning and that is NOT a clean environment! This very laptop upon which I type was bought surplus from work and is a 4 year old Lenovo (IBM) For $400-$600 he has a LOT of choices though from ALL manufacturers - though Dell and HP seem to rank pretty high in user reviews. You can go to Amazon.com and surf through their user reviews - I'll do that even if not buying from Amazon because they do get a lot of reviews. |
