EWC88

Hey everyone, its time for me to get rid of the PC cause it is extremely old, extremely slow, and is really not what I need. Now I'm not getting a PC I'm switching to a laptop because I don't have the space really, I'm a college student that will be moving out soon and dorms aren't spacey.

Now I haven't done much research on any laptops yet because really I'm not that computer smart ( meaning, I don't know whats a good memory to have or hard drive etc ) I'm hoping that this site can help me with that..

What I really want out of this laptop is: to last me awhile, be fast, not loud, and not crappy lol

To give you guys a idea what this laptop would be used for is : School work (essays, things in that nature) email, AIM, music, ipod, reasearching online, and I'd like it to have a dvd player so when I do travel I can bring it with me and watch a movie on the plane..

Now I've been looking at 2 brands: HP and Mac...Now I know some brands aaren't the greatest like Acer and such...

So basicaully I'm asking everyone on what brand and model would you suggest for me? And any info would be great to give about on what things to look at with laptops compared to others.

Sir Travis D

How much are you willing to spend? You can get a cheap, and expensive config on a pc. A pc can come with better overall specs depending on how much you're willing to spend. You could think about dell's inspiron notebooks, or Hp pavilion dv6700t with intel processors. The dv6700t can be configured good with an intel core 2 duo 2.1ghz processor, 3gb ram, and a good graphics card. Make sure you get the 8400/8600/8700/8800 graphics cards if you want good performance for vista.

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EWC88

When you say PC are you refering to a Desktop?

Also money wise I was looking at spending the $1000-$1500 price range since I was looking at a Mac

Sir Travis D

For $1000-1500 you can get a better config from a pc. A PC is any laptop or desktop that runs microsoft windows as an operating system. This includes hp,dell,acer,lenovo,ibm ect.

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EWC88

What do you recommend Sir Traves D? If you were me and needed the laptop as I said what would you go for? Brand and model?

PHATSPEED7x

Sony vaio series are some pretty nice laptops. I got a old vaio and it still works great.

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EWC88

Also what does blue screen of death mean?

PabloTeK

Just to clear a small thing here, a Mac is a PC - they use standard parts, very similar to your Dell/Alienware Travis and your Sony Adam. They also run Windows.

Asus, Dell (Latitudes) and Apple are personal favourites but you'll have to sacrifice some performance with the Mac for the same price. The Latitides are business machines but they are good for work, although the speakers are awful, headphones are needed really. Asus also have a small premium over HP and Dell etc but they do build their own laptops, which is actually quite rare.

EDIT: A blue screen of death (BSOD) is when some OS' suffer an irrecoverable crash so they shut down to prevent more issues. The screen contains an error code and sometimes the name of the file at fault.

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Sir Travis D

@op - sorry about that I thought your post meant "i'm getting rid of my pc for a new computer" not "i'm getting rid of the pc brand"

@op, I still think the reason you dislike windows is because of the computer you have. If you don't have a good computer, you can't run windows how it should be run. That's the problem with people these days. They don't understand that windows vista is better than xp, they just say their computers can't run it and give up on it. I still think you should stay with microsoft windows if "its time for me to get rid of the PC cause it is extremely old, extremely slow, and is really not what I need".

If you get a new computer in that price range, it will run xp or vista well.

Also, a blue screen of death or BSOD is when windows crashes and the screen turns blue. Mac supporters base this on a reason to dump windows, but i've only had it once in 7 years. It usually comes from the owners misuse like the wrong kind of ram, overheating due to cheap psu ect.

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EWC88

Sorry I should of stated what I was saying clearer...

I have a Desktop PC right now thats extremely old, slow, and just crap.. Because I'm a college student and will eventaully be moving out space is a big thing, so a Laptop will be best for me..

I have by all means no problem with Windows..My mom runs XP on her Dell laptop and on her HP Desktop ( I use the desktop alot ) and I like it alot..Vista I never touched before, I have no problem with trying out new things so that doesn't matter..

The only problem I'm having is if I should go into the Mac world or stay with the Pc world...

I don't really know what are good brands, I mean Mac I know is and HP is too..Dell I'm a little iffy with myself because of past computers in my house that have been problems right from the start and there support sucked..even though my moms new laptop is good and so far nothing..

This laptop will be used for AIM, Email, school work, Ipod, reasearching etc..

Hope that clears everything up alot better!