Frostburg 10 Posted October 4, 2011 Hey there folks, As my titles suggests, I am in the market for a new laptop. My current one has problems and I am thinking about replacing it. It said that it was made by Altec Lansing. There are some other stickers on it that say: Intel Centrino Duo, Windows Vista, NVIDIA, and lightScribe. I bought it in 2007 or 2008. It works fine for the most part, but I can't watch any type of internet video such as youtube or whatever. It is generally slow. It always freezes up. Not only that, but whenever I try to type in a username or password for my email or facebook, a little box always comes up that says something like "please enter in your password". I think it wants to automatically store my name and password for each site so I can automatically access them. Sorry folks, but I like entering in my passwords the old fashioned way. In addition, my MsWord sucks, and it makes it so that my printer doesn't always print when I want it to. Anyways, I know most of you tech gurus are probably wondering, what do you want the laptop for? Well, being a college student, I need a laptop for college stuff. I need to be able to type up papers on MsWord, conduct internet searches through google and google scholar. I probably also need Excel, and Powerpoint for various class presentations and whatever else. I need to be able to view internet videos. I would also like to listen to music on the internet. Pretty much anything a college student would need. I also would like something that I can try some video games on perhaps. I have many photographs and videos from my time in the military and I would like to save those. I also have a nice background picture that I want to keep. I also want to keep all my word documents and papers and such. So I probably need a pretty big memory on a powerful computer. I want something nice, and also something that wont constantly act strange. I have more dinero than I can use, so price really isn't an issue. I tried looking this stuff up on google and came up with mixed results. Sorry about the composition of my message, I don't really know much. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PuFu 4600 Posted October 4, 2011 (edited) right above your thread...PC discussion thread for M$ Office Suite, internet and HD movies, any of the current 500$-1000$ would work for you. Most come with CPUs that are above what you would normally need from your average laptop, and same goes for ram and HDD space. On the other hand, no every laptop can run games on. Most laptops have crappy GFX cards (on board or not). That said, a gaming laptop can reach up to 3000, even 4000$ range, although for about 1000$ you would get the same or better specs on a PC. My suggestion: get an average laptop you can use (i would go for HP, or Lenovo/IBM if you are in the States, you can find good deals there) and get a gaming rig on top of that if money is not an issue. Otherwise, you need to make up your mind and see how much you are willing to spend on a gaming laptop, that would most definitely be a lot heavier and hard to carry around you... Edited October 4, 2011 by PuFu Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Frostburg 10 Posted October 4, 2011 My mistake. I will copy and paste my and your response into the PC discussion thread. Then this one can be deleted. ---------- Post added at 08:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:29 PM ---------- Okay, I've copied and pasted my post here and PuFu's response to the PC thread. You guys can delete this thread if you want. Sorry again. Didn't see that main thread above. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
