I just bought an ASUS laptop for 750. Awesome laptop.
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
I just bought an ASUS laptop for 750. Awesome laptop.[/quote]
One of my good friends bought an ASUS as well. It was a higher end one, but still he got a hell of a lot of bang for his buck. Much more powerful than comparably priced laptops from some of the other companies. Quality and longevity so far seems great (3 years or so old now).
I have the Lenovo y500 and its incredible (I just got it two weeks ago). I have nothing bad to say about it. It has an incredible processor, great speakers, and is very well made . Lenovo or Toshiba are great buys, check out the Toshiba satellite series
Any Lenovo are great. I have the y500 which is an idea pad.
I’m all mac, all the time. My wife has a macbook air and it rocks and its in your price range. Powermax is awesome and its sales tax free.
Here is a new macbook pro in your price range.
They get a little spendier if you need more than a 13 inch screen.
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
You do NOT need a fast computer (relative to what’s out there). You DO need to plan on buying a new computer more often.
7 years? Holy shit dude, does it run on steam?[/quote]
Mine is 9 yrs old, and I ain’t buyin’ another til this bitch blows up.
Just got the Miss a Macbook Pro and she loves it. I got chest pain initially from the price tag but there’s a Microcenter by me and was able to get it for about $150 cheaper than Best Buy and the Apple Store. Not an Apple guy myself but my buddy has an Air that’s a bit more affordable. He uses his for social media and for school and it does well.
I just got a Google Chromebook a few weeks ago. Just use it for internet and basic documents for work and it was fairly affordable.
My tablet is strictly for porn and Netflix.
[quote]bulkNcut wrote:
My big thing is that macs are a lot less prone to viruses, like a lot. It really bugs me that people can make a virus to ruin something you own so that was my deciding factor.[/quote]
This would be true if it were the 1990s. Macs are well-built, but the primary reason they were always claimed to be safer than Windows is due to market share. People were less likely to create a virus to attack a small niche, plus it used to be people who were more technical, and therefore less likely to get a virus, would own a mac. Not so for some time now:
mac-virus (I know its the Huffington post, but there are many articles like these in other news locations as well).
Certainly not bad advice to decide which architecture you prefer before starting, just don’t like when mac fanboys still throw around the virus argument as that has not been a mac-pro for some time.
[quote]Phoenix44e wrote:
I need to buy a new computer. I currently have an HP Labtop that is 7 years old.
I know nothing about computers, and before I get taken by a guy at Best Buy I figured I should ask for advice from you guys.
I know there was a thread about someone buying a new computer a couple of months ago but I can’t for the life of me find the thread…
Anyways, I mostly use my computer for Research, Social sites, and youtube. I’m currently unemployed but with my last company I didn’t need to use my own labtop.
Looking to spend 800-1200-Max. Monies tight right now, so any and all advice would be greatly appreciated.[/quote]
Wow how did an HP last 7 years???
[quote]sardines12 wrote:
Wow how did an HP last 7 years???[/quote]
I’m still working fine with an HP laptop from 2005. Other than upgrading the disk space, haven’t really seen a reason to replace it.
[quote]GeneticSynergy9 wrote:
[quote]bulkNcut wrote:
My big thing is that macs are a lot less prone to viruses, like a lot. It really bugs me that people can make a virus to ruin something you own so that was my deciding factor.[/quote]
This would be true if it were the 1990s. Macs are well-built, but the primary reason they were always claimed to be safer than Windows is due to market share. People were less likely to create a virus to attack a small niche, plus it used to be people who were more technical, and therefore less likely to get a virus, would own a mac. Not so for some time now:
mac-virus (I know its the Huffington post, but there are many articles like these in other news locations as well).
Certainly not bad advice to decide which architecture you prefer before starting, just don’t like when mac fanboys still throw around the virus argument as that has not been a mac-pro for some time.[/quote]
Macs are not “immune” but the architecture is better to reduce virus infection; also you can get Sophos anti virus for free and it works just fine.
[quote]sardines12 wrote:
[quote]Phoenix44e wrote:
I need to buy a new computer. I currently have an HP Labtop that is 7 years old.
I know nothing about computers, and before I get taken by a guy at Best Buy I figured I should ask for advice from you guys.
I know there was a thread about someone buying a new computer a couple of months ago but I can’t for the life of me find the thread…
Anyways, I mostly use my computer for Research, Social sites, and youtube. I’m currently unemployed but with my last company I didn’t need to use my own labtop.
Looking to spend 800-1200-Max. Monies tight right now, so any and all advice would be greatly appreciated.[/quote]
Wow how did an HP last 7 years???[/quote]
barely dude, barely. It had a good run…pretty sure toward the end it gave me radation cancer
So I do appreciate all of the advice…I haven’t had much time to look for computers recently started a new job on Monday it it’s basically 10 hours per day.
New wrench into the situation though, I just had to drop about 1300 on my car(unexpected maintenance) so Ill be slimming down my available money to spend to max at 900$.
I also found out the microsoft office is an add on now…and the price is around 130 so I think I have to add that to the total amount of spending money.
I got mine at https://www.xoticpc.com/ and I am pretty damn satisfied. However I think they specialize in gaming laptops (they have cheaper models) so it may not be for you, but for me the price was right.
Here’s a worthwhile online article, from Tom’s Guide, on current best buys in laptops:
My wife’s newish laptop is an Asus and it’s pretty damn nice. The Lenovo IdeaPad U430 Touch looks like a good buy at $699, but it’s only available at Best Buy:
You mentioned Microsoft Office for $130. I haven’t seen it that cheap, except for the Student version with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. This past year, I switched from Microsoft Office Professional (about $400) to Microsoft Office 365, which is available as a subscription for $99 annually. You can install it on up to five PCs and Macs and up to five mobile devices, in one household. I would highly recommend it - Office 365 has Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Access, Publisher and 20 gigs of Skydrive space for “cloud” storage. Oh, you also get 60 minutes per month of Skype world minutes. I have Office 365 installed on my desktop, the wife’s laptop, an Android tablet and my Android phone. It’s a bit slow on the phone, but still handy if I need to view an Office document while on the road.
[quote]Phoenix44e wrote:
So I do appreciate all of the advice…I haven’t had much time to look for computers recently started a new job on Monday it it’s basically 10 hours per day.
New wrench into the situation though, I just had to drop about 1300 on my car(unexpected maintenance) so Ill be slimming down my available money to spend to max at 900$.
I also found out the microsoft office is an add on now…and the price is around 130 so I think I have to add that to the total amount of spending money. [/quote]
Hardware has gotten alot cheaper, you don’t need to spend that much on a laptop for your needs. For what you need you shouldn’t have to spend more than 300 or so.
Storage doesn’t matter, just use thumb drives or external drives if you really need more.
Get one with at least 4GB memory.
If you want to spend more, get an SSD with the fastest Read/Write you can afford.
next get another 4GB of RAM.
After that you can look at some of the models with more L1/L2 cache.
Yes, most of these models will have the same form factor and be not as pretty, but this is part of why they can price them lower, after all it’s what is on the inside that counts right.
If money is an issue, just skip office and use a free office suite like LibreOffice.
[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
[quote]GeneticSynergy9 wrote:
[quote]bulkNcut wrote:
My big thing is that macs are a lot less prone to viruses, like a lot. It really bugs me that people can make a virus to ruin something you own so that was my deciding factor.[/quote]
This would be true if it were the 1990s. Macs are well-built, but the primary reason they were always claimed to be safer than Windows is due to market share. People were less likely to create a virus to attack a small niche, plus it used to be people who were more technical, and therefore less likely to get a virus, would own a mac. Not so for some time now:
mac-virus (I know its the Huffington post, but there are many articles like these in other news locations as well).
Certainly not bad advice to decide which architecture you prefer before starting, just don’t like when mac fanboys still throw around the virus argument as that has not been a mac-pro for some time.[/quote]
Macs are not “immune” but the architecture is better to reduce virus infection; also you can get Sophos anti virus for free and it works just fine.
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Macs arent immune, but from practical experience they are much less likely. I’ve only owned macs and haven’t had a virus yet. Same with friends. Not saying their immune, but they’re much less likely. I can’t argue stats though cause all my experience is based on personal experience.
And I know you said your upper limit is 1200. Just got my macbook pro for that and I couldn’t be happier with it. Still pricy, but just in case you didn’t know they could fall in that category. Im’ not 100% an apple guy, but when it comes to computers I don’t think mac can be beat. Android phones certainly have the odds in their favor though.
If you were to go super cheap you could get a chrome book for $300. Not my suggestion as they only have the online storage option for documents/pretty much anything. Could work but still not the best. Here’s a link if interested.
Laptop/Tablet Hybrid that isn’t as fast and is quite small, but seems to be good buy for only $400.
I should bow out of this cause I’m biased. IMHO if you’re going to spend $800 +, you might as well just get a macbook pro.
I don’t know what your actual use will be, but if you have to actually work/type on it, make sure the ergonomics work for you. I use my macs for work and am on them all day and I just couldn’t see using most of the cheap laptops I’ve had the displeasure of sampling because the ergonomics are so bad. I literally almost tossed my sister’s laptop out the window the other day when I was just showing her a quick tidbit on the internet because the track pad worked so poorly.