Recommended Laptop

[Freerunner]

I'm looking at spending about $400 for a laptop that will be used ONLY for on line banking and will have Quicken Software and Excel installed on it. I'd also like something somewhat light, in weight.

Any suggestions?

 

[jonnyp11]

idk what quicken is, and most pc's come with office 07, at least mine did, and a trial of 10, but this looks decent and is under 6lbs.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215126

otherwise get like a netbook, they start around 200 and are those tiny ones, but as a result of size the keyboards can be a problem and cpu tends to be on the slow side, but are also very light, this is the best i see for your price.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215129

 

[techdragon]

Quicken is an accounting software. It and Excel don't require much resources. Here's another laptop worth looking at: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834214395 I always use and recommend Toshiba laptops, I've never had a problem with them. It doesn't say whether it has Office or not, most likely it'd be a trial anyway. If you don't want to buy Office, you can always use LibreOffice. It's free and compatible with Office. It works pretty much the same as Office and has everything you'd need from an Office Suite.

 

[jonnyp11]

wow, that's a slow processor for a full sized lappy.

 

[techdragon]

Well it doesn't have to run much, of course Windows itself would probably take a good chunk of it. Well, here's another one I found, AMD 2.2GHz Dual-Core: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834214427

 

[jonnyp11]

or the one i put earlier with a 3ghz phenom dual and 4gb's of ddr3 1066

http://api.viglink.com/api/click?fo...ww.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834215126

really, i know lenovo is a good brand, but the ones you've linked are overpriced as hell

 

[techdragon]

Or the one you posted earlier with a 3GHz Phenom Dual processor.

 

[jonnyp11]

why did you say that, it's what i just said, and if it was meant as a question then yes it's up there.

 

[Freerunner]

jonnyp - I've been told that a netbook would not work well because the drain on the resources would slow it down tremendously. That's why I'm looking for a laptop. What about the ASUS brand? Any good?

 

[jonnyp11]

ASUS is great, i think msi and samsung are good too, and several others are fine. did you see the one i linked above, and it was a laptop not a netbook, and a netbook can do almost anything, for word it works fine, idk what the other thing takes, as long as you aren't using a ton of windows multitasking you'll be fine, and the one i linked is a dual core too so it's better at multitasking than most.

 

[linkin]

I'd stick to Asus, Toshiba and a select few others. In Australia, at least, MSI only carries a one year warranty on their laptops.

Brands to avoid include HP & Dell. History of poor support and failure prone machines has been common for both OEM's

 

[jonnyp11]

Also avoid Gateway and Emachines (made by Gateway or HP i believe)

But i have heard that HP's probook is a decent lappy, not sure about it and their support would still suck, but it is supposed to be their higher end/quality model