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Help Me Choose a Laptop
So last night my grandfather and his cunt wife (though staying on her good side has benefited me well) gave me "graduation gift"
Oh just a check for $1000..
And I'm supposed to spend it on school stuff.
A laptop counts as school stuff.
Plus i'm getting financial aid and I apparently have a college fund worth $2000
Anyways, my mom said she planned on putting in like $200. And I don't wanna spend anymore than like $500 of my own.
So don't go too crazy.
$500 of my own tehehehe that sounds insane
I'm a girl ffffeck
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SoulRiser
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Help Me Choose a Laptop
You wanna be able to play games on it?
Myself, I got one of those customizable Clevo/Sager things that lets you pick most of the parts yourself. The keyboards they come with aren't too great, though. Speakers are shitty too. Everything else is great.
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Help Me Choose a Laptop
Or you can make a desktop for around $300 or so.
http://lifehacker.com/5840963/the-best-p...0-and-1200
Although I don't know much about laptops.
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Never buy an HP laptop - I learned this the hard way. They are notorious for coming installed with ridiculous bloatware, and the auto-updates make it even worse.
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RE: Help Me Choose a Laptop
I don't have the room for a desktop, plus I wanna be able to take it to school and shit.
And I mostly just want to be able to multitask a ton. I tend to do a lot at once.
Being able to play games would be super cool too.
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RE: Help Me Choose a Laptop
I got a Samsung with switchable graphics and it has been nothing but unreliable. So stay away from those.
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So avoid HP and Samsung. I'm avoiding Toshiba as well (both my old laptops were Toshiba satellites, kind of tired of that).
I'd do what soul did, but the bad speakers thing kills it for me.
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Samsung might be okay in general. It's possible I got a lemon. But switchable graphics just seem awful, and the drivers are part of the reason this computer is fuqed.
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For under a grand I'd go with a dell, I use one for work and the battery life seems to be pretty good. A bit advice for fucks sake stay away from acer laptops, my friend had one and almost literally burned his balls (battery pack recall fucking thing caught fire)
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Acer is the shittiest thing known to man. Only buy one if you plan on burning it.
Lenovo's quite good. I'm using one of theirs right now. Dell's also alright but I don't know if they can make game-type things.
Let's see...
$500 of your own cash
$1000 graduation money
$2000 college grant
$200 mother's cash
You have $3700 to spend. You can do well with that and I don't know if Dell does game things.
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Lenovo?
Just throwing out another brand.
From the sound of it...most laptop brands sound like crap.
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Actually I've had good experiences with Acer, although I might just have been one of the few.
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I've heard good things about Lenovo's. And I've tried their keyboards on display models, I really like how they type.
Acer's aren't that bad... or, my and my friend's netbooks are good at least. Dunno about their others.
The other laptop I was considering going for at the time was a Lenovo Y500 I think. Might be old now.
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If I put my desktop on my lap, will it be a laptop?
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RE: Help Me Choose a Laptop
Are you planning to use the $2000 for this or largely for tuition?
If you want the most efficient use of your money, find a not-too-used Thinkpad on Craigslist.
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(07-15-2014 06:41 AM)brainiac3397 Wrote: If I put my desktop on my lap, will it be a laptop?
Absolutely goddamn appalling.
As for my advice: buy a business class laptop, those tend to last quite a long time and overall they're kind of great.
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I found one that makes me happy and have excited feelings but now my mom is being a butt about shit -_-
Anyways this is it and I want it.
I'm a girl ffffeck
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Dell, Acer, or Custom.
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RE: Help Me Choose a Laptop
(07-17-2014 01:09 PM)Night Wrote: I found one that makes me happy and have excited feelings but now my mom is being a butt about shit -_-
Anyways this is it and I want it.
What's she being a butt about?
The screen resolution seems a bit low for the size of the screen... but I'm nitpicky about such things. Also, it won't be great for games.
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