Which Laptop do you think is the better buy?
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My sister has a Toshiba laptop and my daughter has a Compaq laptop. \n\nMy sisters Toshiba has had three screens go bad in the 11 months she's owned it. It takes 45 -60 days to get it back. She must ship it to them for repairs and pay for shipping both ways. Its still under Warranty. Getting through to their tech support is difficult at best. She has used her new laptop about 2 months out of 11.\n\nMy daughter has a Compaq laptop. She goes to college and does alot of her work on it. A couple of days after her purchase, she noticed it was getting very hot. This is after several hours of use. She called Compaq tech support and they explained the situation. Then they had a cooling pad sent to her free of charge. No more overheating problems. Then my grandson slammed the lid down hard and damaged the screen. Again she called tech support and the next day a repair shop called and arranged to pick it up and take it in for repair. Tech support made sure a screen was shipped to the shop overnight. Within 36 hrs of calling tech support it was repaired and sitting on her desk. No charge.\n\nI have a Compaq desktop and have called HP tech support at least a dozen times. Never for an equipment problem, just operator problems. I've never waited more than 2 mins to get through and received excellent support. They spent as much time as it takes to resolve any issues. Five hours with me once.\n\nTo me it is also the support of the product that counts.
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Just a suggestion, try to work on spelling and grammar. That said, AMD is better both for price and in many cases performance. Most laptops are pretty much not upgradeable, except if you want to replace the hard drive or add limited memory, unlike a desktop where you can upgrade just about anything. For the flying games, you want to make sure you try and find a laptop that advertises a video card with at least 128 megs of ram, not to be confused with the laptops ram, which should be at least 512MB if not 1 gig. I also suggest a built in wi-fi card, which most laptops come with now anyways. Best buy is a good place to buy a computer, and if possible try and buy an extended service plan warranty :).\nI Hope this helps!\nP.S. Don't get an eMachines...personal experience.
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The MacbookPro is definately worth the money.  The "overheating" that is spoken of is due to it working so dang fast (in not so technical terms).  People that complain of it are most often using this portable computer as a laptop... don't put it on your lap... the bottome does get very warm.\n\nThe new 17 inch has some more amazing features, such as better stereo speakers, remote,  and amazingly large lcd screen.  It comes with Tiger OS and ilife '06 bundled in.  \n\nI agree the Macbook is a large investment (get the applecare protection plan on it), but you may get a lower price if you have anything to do with a local school or university (attend, teach, alumni).  Their student pricing is extremely reasonable.
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You should be able to get good deasl on pricegrabbger.com (It gets the best prices from all online stores). \n\nAnyways, I think more than deals, try looking for quality.  My personal experience says that Lenovo (IBM Thinkpads) last the longest and are the sturdiest.  They also come with a finger print secure login in most laptops.  It's worth spending an extra couple of hundred bucks -- Lasts at least 4-5 years. \n\nDell's are inferior quality, but cheap. \nToshiba's are a good compromise \nSony's suck. \nHP is getting better, but, doesn't compare with Thinkpads.
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Well I would say both are good brand right now for gaming laptops specially Dell XPS also has good tech. support after sales ( couple of my friends work for it ). Go for dell XPS M1710 they got 4 varients of it on basis of their design & hardware components.\n\nCheck out the link below for the range which suits your budget you'll really find'em awsome ( I'll suggest you to go for the one which says mulimedia powerhouse $ 2,794:\n\nhttp://www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/cto_xpsnb_m1710?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs\n\nYou can also check this one from alienware its called Aurora™ m7700 Mobile Gaming Powerhouse its for starts from $2,679 however one thing you should notice that dell gives you better configuration for the same price range.\n\nLike dell gives you 512 mb graphics card instead of a 256 on this one. Alienware has a bigger harddrive but wats the use if you wont enjoy most of your bulky high defination games.\n\nSo compare them and take a decision ( I say dell is better in this price range )\nCheck the link below for alienware :\nhttp://www.alienware.com/product_detail_pages/Aurora_m7700/aurora-m_features.aspx?SysCode=PC-LT-AURORA-M-7700&SubCode=SKU-DEFAULT\n\nI 'll suggest you to check this brand called Pro-Star as they are giving a lot more of inside stuff then other at the same range ( have'nt heard about their after sales support ) but its a mouth watery deal as far as the hardware is concerned. I want you to check this two models by them 9068-3A, 9068-4A the only diff. between 'em is the processor its AMD 4600+ & 4800+ for $ 2,629 & $ 2,679 ( not much of a diff. )\n\nhttp://www.pro-star.com/index.cfm?mainpage=productdetail&model=9068\n\nyou can try this one by gateway if you want your mom to have a bit of relaxation on the monetary side :\n\nhttp://www.gateway.com/products/GConfig/proddetails.asp?system_id=nx860xl&seg=hm\n\nI say you should read this review before you make a descision & hey take the pro-star seriously its a good deal :\n\nhttp://www.bizwaremagic.com/best_gaming_notebooks.htm
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It depends on what you are looking for. What kind of quality do you want? Do you want it for a laptop or a desktop? What is the highest price you are willing to say. If you are looking to compare models and prices I left you a link to check out.
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Depends upon how critical the laptop is in your situation.  In most cases I would not buy it.  Usually they cost about 15% of the original list price of the laptop for each years extended warrranty.  \n\nA small percentage of the laptops have hardware related failures.  The odds are in your favor unless you drop it or travel with it a lot.  If you can write it off as a business expense that might make the cost more appealing.\n\nSo, figure out how much it will cost and figure in 2-3 years new laptops will most likely be less expensive or at least the same price with more features.  In most cases, unless the laptop is critical to your day-to-day business I would not spend the money.
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I would look for something with at least a gigabite of ram. and a 120 gig hard drive.\nthat would be a great laptop.
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Dell Inspiron or Toshiba lapotops are a good buy. But as someone rightly said; its a mix of your budget and computing needs.
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Get Alienware.....awesome machines....as long as you don't mind spending a little bit more for it. If money is an issue and you want something cheaper, I recommend a Dell. Don't go with Compaq or HP if you can avoid it, they are just proprietary, production machines.
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I would go with a Dell laptop.  They have a large selection of laptops from the most basic user to the ultimate gamer.  If you are not looking to spend a lot of money on a laptop then I recommend the Dell Inspiron B120.  Very nice laptop that starts around $578. After taxes, shipping & handling the price will be $667.46.   This laptop has a 40 gigabyte harddrive,  512 megabytes of ram, 1.4 gigahertz processor, CD Burner/DVD burner combo drive with Windows XP.  Hope this helps
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I believe the best answer to give you is:\n\n"It depends"\n\nThe main thing that usually holds true with laptops is the more functionality you have, the heavier the computer.\n\nI would say spend whatever your budget allows.  Buy from a known name as well.  I would recommend Dell, HP, Sony, etc.\n\nAlso, keep in mind, whatever you buy now is pretty much what you are stuck with for the long run.  There are very few parts that can be upgraded on a laptop.  The main one being RAM.\n\nHope this helps!
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def Dell, but theres different kinds, look into which one is best for you
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Personally I prefer Dell plus they have good after sales backup,great forums to visit also if you have any queries IMHO
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maybe you should buy the first one. the size of your hard drive is important is you're the type that keeps a lot of movies, pictures, music in your pc. a webcam and mic you can always buy an external one. which may be better than the internal one in the laptop.  the higher the capacity of the ram, the faster you pc goes. so i think both are important. if u want a fast pc..
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Well for gaming, the Inspiron will be bad, and the other one will be horrible, hence I guess the Dell would be the Best Buy.  If you are planning on doing gaming, you really should stick to desktops, or be prepared to invest a good amount of money into a laptop.
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tough choice...both have their own  advantages...\nnotebooks r ON THE GO all the time...but a bit SLOW...n there are BATTERY issues al the time...(things r changing SLOWLY...)\nu can mess with DESKTOPS...n they r cheap too...it occupies a lot of space...n more importantly...IMPORTABLE\nbut hey...it al depends on what exactly u want from ur PC...i`d go for a LAPTOP...:-)