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Help me pick a laptop

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 8:20 pm
by flip
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.

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 9:10 pm
by fliptw
500?

an eeepc?

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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 11:28 pm
by Krom
fliptw wrote:500?

an eeepc?
I second this suggestion.

Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 7:48 am
by flip
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

Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 10:53 am
by captain_twinkie
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?

Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 3:47 pm
by DarkShadow
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.

Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 12:38 pm
by flip
I ended up finding a HP pentium 4 2.4 ghz at a flea market for 300 bucks :). Thanks guys for the responses.