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Post by
Katalliaan
My dad's insisting on buying me a laptop as a combined birthday/graduation gift. However, I'm not sure what I should look for - my first and only laptop is an IBM Thinkpad 600e that we bought used from the Enron crash. It never functioned properly as a laptop - the case was damaged and prevented the battery from charging, and crashes every so often.
Anyway, the simple problem is that I don't know much about laptops, and he knows less. The major problem I'm having is that I don't know much about comparing different laptop video cards and processors. The limiting factor is the cost - he doesn't want to spend "in the thousands", which I want to narrow down to "less than $800". I was considering
this Asus
, mainly because it seems like it's decent quality - after looking through all the reviews, it looks like:
*
not a "gaming/multimedia machine by today's standards", but "games alright for World of Warcraft"
; I don't really care about this, wasn't planning on using it for gaming anyway, but might be useful if I wanted to do a quick check on my auctions
*
bit of bloatware, some of which is "kind of cool"
; Debatable, but probably not as bad as getting rid of Norton
*
case is easy to get fingerprints/smudges on
; Not too big a concern of mine
*
Windows 7
; Heard good things about it, but haven't used a computer with it yet, but there's no way it'd be worse than Vista
Post by
Federalagent
it has an 'Intel GMA 4500M" video card, find something that is Nvidia or ATI... Asus is a great brand, so if you can find an Asus with ATI or Nvidia, thats a good one.
Look through this list
** The first two are OpenBox, not a good idea, avoid those two...
Post by
Erethzium
Well, sadly, decent gaming laptops are GOING to be "in the thousands". You're much better off getting a desktop because they're much cheaper than laptops. The one I bought was $680, and ran WoW perfectly. If you put two computers of comparable power together, a desktop and a laptop, the laptop is bound to be at least 50% more expensive.
Windows 7 isn't bad, either...I've been using it for a couple months and no problems yet.
Post by
Katalliaan
Never said it was for gaming - if you look at the unbolded text on the first bullet point, I said that being able to game on it would be nice, but it isn't the reason that I'm getting a new one. I'm getting a new one because my current one is at least 8, maybe 9 years old, is extremely slow, crashes every so often, and was designed for Windows 2000 but running XP. I have my desktop for gaming, and it's doing fine, except for peak hours at Dalaran.
Post by
Sheridan
If the budget really is "under $800" you can find some much better laptops in the $600 - $700 price range.
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Post by
Katalliaan
Thanks for the info about different versions of Windows and pre-installed software. I live in the northeastern part of the United States, so your warning about Acers doesn't really apply to me, but even here they're treated as less than a last resort. I might just stick with my piece of crap for now, and have him help me with paying for a car or something.
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