Thread: Buying laptop in a few weeks

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Looking at this one right now,
Looking for processor speed / Ram more then anything, since I"m a multiple program person.

Planning on buying a laptop in about 3 weeks, when a sale or two goes through, and I get my first webmaster check. :P


Anyone have any good laptop recommendations?

I highly recommend Gateway Laptops.

They are really good laptops with a huge performance.

I used to have a Gateway pc, Ran ok.

Friend of mine has a Gateway laptop, and it seems a bit bulky for my taste. :P

If you are looking for a laptop for gaming try Alien Ware.

Sony and Apple laptops are great laptops as well.

I've had a Gateway for many years now and it's still running like a champ. I wouldn't recommend this if you're in the market for an "actual" laptop. But the Asus EEE PC is a fun little utility laptop.

staples? you're gonna buy from staples? weird.

If you are going to buy a laptop, but it from BestBuy they have really nice sales on some laptops.

Sadly, local, Staples has had the best deals. :\


And I'm not looking for gaming,
I'm looking for running Photoshop, Illustrator, FTP, Firefox, Ie 5 and 6, Msn, Bittorent, GTalk, Programmers Notepad, Xampp, windows media player, and random stuff in the background without a hint of lag. :P

The looks like you need a professional laptop to run without any lag.

Sony would be good for you, but everything is up to you how much money you want to spent on the laptop.

The quality of the laptop always matters from the price you want to spent on the laptop.

sounds like you'll need to be overclocking this bad boy. and did you mean utorrent? it's smaller than the original bitt client

no, bittorrent. :P
I use it when I sleep, love it don't know why.


I run all that on an amd 3600+ w/ 1gig ram. :P
Just lag a bit.


Thought a step up to a dual core with 3gigs would be better. :P

Nice, hope ya get a good one

I have been doing that BitTorrent stuff last year until I got a warning from my Internet provider saying that I have been downloading illegal content.

So, now I stay away from them.

Haha, they sent you a notice?
That's ridiculous!

unr added 0 Minutes and 17 Seconds later...

Who was your ISP at that point?

Yeah, I woke up in the morning and I was trying to go to internet and it said that I have been downloading illegal content and if this will happen again it will result in cancellation of internet. So now I keep staying away from illegal BitTorrent stuff.

My internet provider is Road Runner - Time Warner Cable.

what you need is "hide ip"...blocks your ip from known rats.


or...you could not steal things I guess

But where's teh fun in that wiki?

it's all fun an games till that lawsuit arrives.

then it sucks.

I need to start doing taxes... :eek:

Yeah, my internet will be canceled if I will be downloading torrents again.

That suckssss.

Poor you

Yeah, but I lived almost 6 months without torrents and I can live without them.

By the way I think I will buy buying a new laptop too, because I have a Compaq and I'm not so happy with it.

I think I'm gonna get the Gateway Laptop.

Go for it. :P

I'm still looking at that acer...

Not sure though, depends on what's on sale when I go hunting for real. :P

I'm gonna wait couple of months until the laptops will be on sale and I will probably get the Gateway one.

I have seen those Apple Mini Notebooks that fit in the vanilla envelope and they are so tiny.

And such a waste
They're so unbeleivably limited.


One of the guys I work with now has one. :P

Yeah, I think it's just a waste of money on those new Apple Notebooks.

You have to pay around $3,000 for that Apple Notebook and it probably works as good as other computers, just differs from the sizes and the interface.

And there's no cd drive.

And it's extremely limited.

Ha ha an Apple computer without a cd drive, you need to get an external one.

That is just hilarious.

Oooh, Want something more like this.

http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pro...Flyer_Tracking



Or the 4gig versions in their flyer.


But, I'll be looking into actually purchasing something in the next flyers, or the flyer after that. :\



Oh, and I'm modding my wii later this week.
I currently have 47 wii games [strike]downloading[/strike] on delivery.

Novvak. if you can get a wireless signal from your neighbors you can keep doing torrents that way

Haha, Wiki's a genious.


I was thinking about getting a wireless router for my house.
But I have a wifi usb, so i can just use that.


However, I can write this laptop, and that router off as 'business-related' on my taxes.

Originally Posted by WikicyloN

Novvak. if you can get a wireless signal from your neighbors you can keep doing torrents that way

Break more than one law at once, that's a grand strategy.

Originally Posted by GRIM

Break more than one law at once, that's a grand strategy.

Two wrongs make a right.

I have some laptop reviews on my blog that may help you. The Dell M1530 and Toshiba’s new Satellite A135 are great laptops. Apple MacBook Air NoteBook is one hot machine but I'm not an apple fan.

Laptop | Gageet

Originally Posted by GRIM

Break more than one law at once, that's a grand strategy.

I broke the law and the law won :eek:

have had a couple of employer issued dell laptops in the past, and they worked good, been a few years thou.

Dells are great. I'm sure that the online prices are better than Staples.

I'll never touch a dell.
I've spent far to long fixing friends computers.

I won't touch a gateway, had bad experience with them in the past.


I won't touch an apple, since they're sad.

Originally Posted by unr

I'll never touch a dell.
I've spent far to long fixing friends computers.

I won't touch a gateway, had bad experience with them in the past.


I won't touch an apple, since they're sad.

I agree, I would never touch a dell desktop and prefer to build my own system however when it comes to a laptop, I find dell the best as they are cheap and have good service.

Originally Posted by GRIM

Break more than one law at once, that's a grand strategy.

oh how will they know which neighbor is taking up some of that bandwidth?

Originally Posted by WikicyloN

oh how will they know which neighbor is taking up some of that bandwidth?

Ahh if an investigation is done it can be found out