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Laptop buying
Name: shegee Date: June 30, 2005 at 10:42:41 Pacific OS: xp pro CPU/Ram: 1.2/256
Comment:
Hello, I'm looking to buy a new laptop and wondered what to buy.
Any one got any recomendations? Up to £1000
If someone could give me a quick breakdown of laptops in order of best to worse. Ie pentium, celeron etc that would be great.
Name: Dirty_Sanchez Date: June 30, 2005 at 18:45:39 Pacific
Reply:
need more details on what it will be used for. regardless, no celeron though! IBM makes a GREAT business laptop line but, for gaming, I would look into Dells or even a Micron believe it or not as they make a pretty nice laptop. I dont know the conversion rate for £1000 to US so I dont know what you want to spend? Is a refurb an option? Nothing wrong with a refurb if it has the same warranty for half the money...just a though
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Response Number 3
Name: justasking Date: June 30, 2005 at 21:57:50 Pacific
Reply:
no offense, but if you don't know the difference between celeron and pentium, then it would seem that you wouldn't be doing too much with your laptop.
that being the case, i think you can spend somewhere between 700-900 dollars (new) on a decent laptop that will fit your need, and save that extra cash for something else.
my theory is, either go full force with the latest technology, or buy something old that will just do your basic stuff, no point in going halfway
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