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These days it is very easy to get laptops for under $500 ... or right around $500, maybe slightly more. It really depends on what you are looking to do ... if all you need is something to take notes for college classes, listen to/download music, save pictures, browse internet and check e-mail ... then you can certainly find one.
It is when you want to do any gaming or if you need/want to use applications like Adobe PhotoShop, or another program equally as resource-intensive ... that is when you will be looking at at least $700-800 for one. True gaming laptops can be much higher priced.
My first laptop was an Acer ... it still works great and I paid $2200 for it back in 2000. I now have a Gateway laptop I paid about $1500 for back in 2006 ... and it still runs all the current programs and even a few games, though not many because it's graphics memory is only 128MB and that is shared with system memory ... not dedicated.
I have helped many people get laptops and many of them have gotten them from Best Buy ... I prefer Gateway because I have had 0 issues with their support. Dell support is awful and HP I am not really impressed with as we have HP machines at work ... but that is in a work-environment too, so I'll cut them some slack.
It really all comes down to personal preference. The thing with laptops though is if you have some extra $$$, you should get something that is a little higher in system specs than what you need because they are much harder to upgrade (except for memory and hard drive space) than a regular desktop computer. Desktops can be upgraded later to save you the expense of buying a new one.
These days it is very easy to get laptops for under $500 ... or right around $500, maybe slightly more. It really depends on what you are looking to do ... if all you need is something to take notes for college classes, listen to/download music, save pictures, browse internet and check e-mail ... then you can certainly find one.
It is when you want to do any gaming or if you need/want to use applications like Adobe PhotoShop, or another program equally as resource-intensive ... that is when you will be looking at at least $700-800 for one. True gaming laptops can be much higher priced.
My first laptop was an Acer ... it still works great and I paid $2200 for it back in 2000. I now have a Gateway laptop I paid about $1500 for back in 2006 ... and it still runs all the current programs and even a few games, though not many because it's graphics memory is only 128MB and that is shared with system memory ... not dedicated.
I have helped many people get laptops and many of them have gotten them from Best Buy ... I prefer Gateway because I have had 0 issues with their support. Dell support is awful and HP I am not really impressed with as we have HP machines at work ... but that is in a work-environment too, so I'll cut them some slack.
It really all comes down to personal preference. The thing with laptops though is if you have some extra $$$, you should get something that is a little higher in system specs than what you need because they are much harder to upgrade (except for memory and hard drive space) than a regular desktop computer. Desktops can be upgraded later to save you the expense of buying a new one.
Laptop or desktop for college?
Jb
hey guys my college is giving me a dell lattitude for free to use. I played around wiht it and my god is it slow it can handle basic word processing and light web browsing but otherwise it sucks. Anyways i was debating whether to get a Desktop or laptop for college. I am goin got be commuting and went around the campus and nobody had a laptop in class so i was considering a desktop...i need help it has to be under 2000 and i dont care mac or pc it just has to be: Blazing fast, great multi tasking, good battery life(laptop), hi def screen and great multimedia playback...
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Keep the Latitude, do a fresh reinstall of Windows on it without any of Dell's extra bloatware, and you will find that it is actually decently fast for things like websurfing or word processing. You can then lug that puppy around campus for WiFi access and schoolwork (library research, group projects with your classmates, etc.).
Then for your dorm room you can build yourself a powerful desktop PC to complement that laptop.
Since you already have that Latitude, might as well get as much mileage as you can out of it.
Keep the Latitude, do a fresh reinstall of Windows on it without any of Dell's extra bloatware, and you will find that it is actually decently fast for things like websurfing or word processing. You can then lug that puppy around campus for WiFi access and schoolwork (library research, group projects with your classmates, etc.).
Then for your dorm room you can build yourself a powerful desktop PC to complement that laptop.
Since you already have that Latitude, might as well get as much mileage as you can out of it.
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