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Offline littlelamb

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New Laptop
« on: April 13, 2010, 06:17:00 AM »
Can anyone recommend a good lap top for a beginner
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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2010, 06:50:49 AM »
Avoid the HP/Compaq V6000 and DV6000 models.  They're dirt cheap but they have defective motherboards and HP still sells them.
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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2010, 07:35:43 AM »
I got my Toshiba Satellite L305 laptop last November and its going strong. It was on the cheap end, although I sprang for the 2 year warranty. No webcam or anything, I avoided those laptops but it had 2GB of RAM instead of 1.

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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2010, 08:30:13 AM »
I will heartily endorse Toshiba. I have a Toshiba Satellite 1805 purchased back in mid 1999. I've had ZERO hardware issues with it. Once I wiped Windows ME off it and installed XP, it's been perfect. I also have a newer Toshiba that I use at the VFW. It has Vista on it. It also works fine except when unauthorized users get on it and get viruses. ( I fixed that problem). I also like the layout of the keyboards on the Toshibas better than most of the others.
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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2010, 09:28:18 AM »
My Toshiba's an '05 and still running great. See the Qosmio yet?  :drool:
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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2010, 10:15:31 AM »
Quote from: littlelamb on April 13, 2010, 06:17:00 AM
Can anyone recommend a good lap top for a beginner

Go to New Egg and look up laptops in your price range. Choose a few and look at the customer responses. Especially if there are alot of them.
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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #6 on: April 15, 2010, 11:12:26 PM »
Quote from: Wineslob on April 14, 2010, 10:15:31 AM
Go to New Egg and look up laptops in your price range. Choose a few and look at the customer responses. Especially if there are alot of them.
Newegg is a good site, but Best Buy (gag) and 3btech.net are also very good sites. Best Buy has been running some pretty decent deals on Toshibas since Christmas. (I refuse to buy a Dell or HP)
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