Help me pick a laptop

flip · Post by **flip** » Fri May 30, 2008 8:20 pm

My wife needs one for school now =/. I want to spend no more than 500 total and preferably less

. Mainly she will be using it for writing papers but the more features the better.

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Fri May 30, 2008 9:10 pm

500?

an eeepc?

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Fri May 30, 2008 11:28 pm

fliptw wrote:500?

an eeepc?

I second this suggestion.

flip · Post by **flip** » Sat May 31, 2008 7:48 am

Yeah I looked at the Asus machines but they have small screens. Does anyone have any experience with this machine or Acer in general?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6834115463

captain_twinkie · Post by **captain_twinkie** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 10:53 am

I have a Acer LCD which I like, never had to deal with the tech support before.

I've owned a Toshiba and ASUS before, I enjoyed both, alot of co-workers have dells, mainly cause I work for Dell, Dell has some great deals in there outlet for laptops, other then that I would just get a $500 special from best buy or something.

Are you in need of XP or would Vista work?

DarkShadow · Post by **DarkShadow** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 3:47 pm

My wife has had an Acer Aspire something or other for 6 months now we got for $399 at Circuit City. We have had no problems with it since we put 2 gig of memory in it since it was trying to run vista on 512 meg. Before that it was painfully slow.

flip · Post by **flip** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 12:38 pm

I ended up finding a HP pentium 4 2.4 ghz at a flea market for 300 bucks

. Thanks guys for the responses.

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