Getting a laptop

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jeeperanthony

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For my birthday/early graduation Im getting a laptop, and I have a few questions.
My budget is about $1000 for the computer alone.
At least 2 GB RAM
160 GB HDD
15.4" screen, as it needs to go back and forth to school with me.
My main dilemma is deciding on an operating system. I want to stay with windows too. Im running XP 03 right now, so i was wondering how hard it would be to adjust? Also, I've heard some pretty bad things about vista in general.
I will be using the laptop for mainly school work(thats where the office components come in), web surfing, and music storage.
What are the advantages of vista anyway?
 
i would suggest more then 160gb of hd, you dont realise it now, but u just wait...;) 200 would be alright... now, check out our good ol friend www.tigerdirect.ca, but otherwise a toshiba from future shop should be just fine... and vista isnt hard to get used to, just get the laptop a month before your gona use it for school, and u'd be used to it before you can say "asparagus". nothing too new with vista, no worries... and its not as bad as you think...
 
Well vista have some awesome features , its security , graphics are much higher then x p .. For a college student vista is best buddy , i am also using a lap top and install vista in it.
 
[-0MEGA-];872583 said:
Dell offers all their laptops with either Vista or XP.
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I knew. But if you got Fujitsu vs Dell, Same spec with similar price . I personally will go for Fujitsu
 
For $1,000 you could get a Macbook, which runs OS X and windows XP and Windows Vista. Then have the best of all three, if you wished. Plus when it comes to reliability and security OS X does beat out windows. I just read that over 50% of university laptop sales are now Macs. They are growing very large in higher education.
 
tlarkin said:
For $1,000 you could get a Macbook, which runs OS X and windows XP and Windows Vista. Then have the best of all three, if you wished. Plus when it comes to reliability and security OS X does beat out windows. I just read that over 50% of university laptop sales are now Macs. They are growing very large in higher education.
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Yes, but you would need to purchase Windows XP/Vista, so add on another $100-$200 to that price tag.
 
[-0MEGA-];872793 said:
Yes, but you would need to purchase Windows XP/Vista, so add on another $100-$200 to that price tag.
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Depends on your schools software license agreement. Some universities have an educational site license that while enrolled they can install windows on your machine for you. It is included in your tuition.
 
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uh, no... HP is the wrong choice... I bought a few of em and their screens spontaneously shut off and the buttons sometimes dont work... i would suggest Toshiba and acer over hp or compaq... ... even Dell has their moments:)
 
tlarkin said:
For $1,000 you could get a Macbook, which runs OS X and windows XP and Windows Vista. Then have the best of all three, if you wished. Plus when it comes to reliability and security OS X does beat out windows. I just read that over 50% of university laptop sales are now Macs. They are growing very large in higher education.
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Agreed...

Macbooks are more durable than the average laptop...
 
BiscuitAdvisory said:
uh, no... HP is the wrong choice... I bought a few of em and their screens spontaneously shut off and the buttons sometimes dont work... i would suggest Toshiba and acer over hp or compaq... ... even Dell has their moments:)
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I agree with your statement with one huge exception. HP business class laptops and HP consumer laptops are two completely different animals. I have a 12" HP NC4200 (business class) that is a bad ass little laptop. I got the cheaper model with the onboard intel graphics chip, but it was a laptop that my work bought for us to use.

HP business class laptops are good solid machines. I used to support thousands of them at my old job.
 
Vista can be annoying to use because of all the "are you sure you want to..." prompts. My advice would be to purchase the laptop you want(regardless of the OS), then format the hard drive on it and load XP.
 
Between xp and vista is kinda a hard choice .. they both have there up's and down's .. but i'll have to lean more on the xp side .. Vista isn't that bad with its application support anymore .. i haven't actually had issues with any software at the moment with it, its security can be a pro and a con .. pro its better than xp con its annoying .. vista's data transfure rate is crap... and its rescource hungry .. i'd recommend least 2gb of ram to run it. vista's pretty. XP would be more stable .. more software support. up to you really.

If it was up 2 me .. then duel boot is the way to go .. or tri boot if ur a linux geek ... (which i use 2 use .. till I got sick of restarting to play games).. I have a PC at home .. which is pretty much for everything holds all my data etc with decent FX card(well better than the laptop).. laptops for taking places ... so I don't really need a huge HDD ..

Personally i wouldn't say mac's cause .. there overpriced .. and not that good but i guess there good for someone that doesn't know how to fix there computer like virus's ..
 
curtains said:
Personally i wouldn't say mac's cause .. there overpriced .. and not that good but i guess there good for someone that doesn't know how to fix there computer like virus's ..
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I grow more and more tired every day of the ignorance that is spread about Macs. First off they are not over priced, secondly you never need to fix viruses because there are NO KNOW VIRUSES IN THE WILD FOR OS X. Didn't mean to yell, just needed to get my point across.

This mentality comes from gamers who think their pc they assembled is the greatest thing ever, when in fact it is only good for one thing, gaming. Macs are built to do serious work, and are used in very high end industries. The movie transformers was edited on 3 Macbook Pros, thats right, edited on three laptops. Almost anything you see from Hollywood or from the record labels is done on a Mac. The military just started adding macs to their network for security reasons. Mac laptops sales crushed most PC laptop sales in 2007.

Vista is a big bloated POS OS and is resource hungry like a starving predator. No other OS in the world has that high of requirements and the saddest part is it does not out perform any OS either.

Macs are not better, they are different, and if you like it or need it you use it. If not then you can use windows and a PC. Actually, if you look through all the specs, and abilities a mac can do out of the box they are actually cheaper. They are a closed platform machine and a PC is an open platform. Quantity does not equal quality.
 
tlarkin said:
I grow more and more tired every day of the ignorance that is spread about Macs. First off they are not over priced, secondly you never need to fix viruses because there are NO KNOW VIRUSES IN THE WILD FOR OS X. Didn't mean to yell, just needed to get my point across.

This mentality comes from gamers who think their pc they assembled is the greatest thing ever, when in fact it is only good for one thing, gaming. Macs are built to do serious work, and are used in very high end industries. The movie transformers was edited on 3 Macbook Pros, thats right, edited on three laptops. Almost anything you see from Hollywood or from the record labels is done on a Mac. The military just started adding macs to their network for security reasons. Mac laptops sales crushed most PC laptop sales in 2007.

Vista is a big bloated POS OS and is resource hungry like a starving predator. No other OS in the world has that high of requirements and the saddest part is it does not out perform any OS either.

Macs are not better, they are different, and if you like it or need it you use it. If not then you can use windows and a PC. Actually, if you look through all the specs, and abilities a mac can do out of the box they are actually cheaper. They are a closed platform machine and a PC is an open platform. Quantity does not equal quality.
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He's got a point. I would grab a Mac, and if you really have to use some not-Mac-compatible software - just add Windows and switch back and forth.
 
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