help me buy my first computer (laptop)

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hi, my mom just got a big promotion at work and she is giving me $500 for a laptop for college, im putting $300 twords it. heres the question, if you had ~$800 to buy a laptop, what would you buy? thanks alot for your help, i dont want to run into this blind and regret my decision later.

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I’d buy the one thats on sale at wal-mart this week for $399 and bank the rest of the money your mom is giving you ;).

It will go on sale nov 5th,its a compaq.Not too bad of a laptop for that price.

http://bfsavings.com/

2nd one down

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Dell.

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+1 on dell

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http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&oc=iB130S1&s=dhs

If you’re looking for a basic laptop to get through college, or do basic documents and such, that would do the trick easily.

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first things first, what exactly do you plan on using the laptop for? basic college stuff? (typing, internet, music)

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i just saw a couple of new laptops from dell with Core2 Duo and Vista… all that you’d need, i’d imagine… pretty damned cheap too :slight_smile:

If you play games, make sure to check the stats on the video. i didnt look further, just saw it earlier

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first off, thanks for all the responses, i dont know too much about computers but i know some basic stuff to get me by. i was under the impression that a dell was an inferior laptop? would a sony or a toshiba be of higher quality? im also planning on spending the entire $800 because its going to be a christmas gift too, so im never going to be able to see the 500 to bank it,

also i just started college and want to get something that will last me at least most of the 4 years.

im planning on putting music on it (not downloading though) word proccessing and besides school the only thing i would use it for is surfing the web.

i used to play games dating back to the first diablo but with working 20+ hours a week, being a full time student and having a gf i dont have time to play games anymore, so the quality of the video card or whatever else you would need to play games isnt much of a concern to me.

thanks again for your guys’ time,
-Jim

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Dell Inspiron 6000

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Dell 4TW :tup:

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Wait until dell does the black friday deals with a vista coupon…

You can probably get a nice one for under 500 bucks. I’m waiting for one myself.