Which laptop should I get for college?

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I'm going to be a pre-med student next year and was looking for other opinions. Which one:
1. HP Envy 15 (2012 version)
2. Dell XPS 15z
3. Samsung Series 7 chronos
4. Sony Vaio SE series

Answer
Ignore Apache's ridiculous answer. I am looking at the specifications of each laptop independently and will respond shortly with the most sensible choice, followed by a reasoned explanation.
"Go for Dell or Sony"... FFS...

EDIT:
Sorry, what you've provided in your question is not enough to tell which ones you are considering. There are at least 2 versions of the HP Envy 15, and 3 versions of the Dell XPS 15z.

However, I made comparisons of the lowest-spec versions of each of those to the other machines in your list.

I have seen the HP Envy 15 available for around the £650 mark, but from ambiguous sources. If you can pick one up for this price, rather than the £1000 I have seen elsewhere, then it is by far the best value. However, if this is not the case, then the lowest-spec Dell XPS 15z is the best choice.

As a medical student, I can't imagine how you will need much more power than what the lowest-speced machines will provide.

Both the Samsung Series 7 Chronos and the Sony Vaio SE series are very overpriced for the specs that they have. They are priced for branding and design, not practicality or power.

My PC wont launch any programs unless it is in Safe Mode, please help?

Chaniqua

The main issue is in the third paragraph and some basic PC info in the last.


I have had some issues my PC's performance in the past but it has been working quite well since then. Basically, it crashed and would restore while deleting all of my files in late 2011, but I left it alone for a number of months and it turned on just fine. That was in mid to late 2012. Since then, I've been using the computer, but not as regularly as I am now. Since I've never replaced the battery, it has to stay on longer and the fan runs even more because the computer is always pretty warm because of that.

After about a month of using the computer heavily, every day, I did start to hear random recordings and commercials and even sounds from online arcade games, they still play but are a lot less frequent and usually disappear when I start looking through my task manager and processes. I have yet to find the source of the noise because I have not found anything that looks suspicious installed or in my processes or through an virus protection. (I do not use external speakers). I think this may be because my friend has been streaming less than legal content (i.e. movies), but I'm unsure because I don't see any apparent threats.

As of last night, my computer has stopped launching programs. I shut it down around 1:40 am and around 8 am, I started it up again to send an email and it worked. From there, I hibernated the computer and came back around 10 am and couldn't get it to launch any programs. I opened it in Safe Mode with Networking (which is what I'm doing now) and it worked. I shut it down after an hour or so and came back around 2 pm. The computer still wont launch anything in regular mode and even shut down twice for temperature warning in Safe Mode even when the vents weren't blocked and the machine wasn't even very warm. What do you guys think the issue is? Please help!

I have a HP laptop that I bought in 2010. It's running Windows 7 Home Premium. My primary internet source is a college WiFi server that is locked and open only to students. I mostly run word processors, browsers and Photoshop and occasionally play an MMO that is installed. I never play the MMO longer than an hour and half because it uses a lot of power. I still have disk space, if that helps. I think I have under 40% though.
I don't watch porn on my computer and I'm pretty sure my friend doesn't either. Try again.

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Obviously infected with something. There was probably some sort of rootkit involved, which is why you might not have been able to find it when Windows was working normally.

Using a clean computer, download this onto a CD and give it a boot on your computer:
http://support.kaspersky.com/4162

Did you install a fresh copy of Windows at some point? You might need to find the drivers that enable your computer to throttle down your processor usage, thereby keeping it from running at 100% power all the time. This would be something related to your motherboard, so find its model by looking at it, or using this command line:
wmic baseboard get manufacturer,product

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