Okay I'm am looking for a cheap latop around 200-350 at most i was looking at netbooks but decided a laptop would be better I know they are more like4000-500 but if anyone could find a legit one that would be great!!!!!! thanks so much!
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Netbooks are $150 to $400. Laptops are $400 to $2,000. Desktop is $350 to $1,000. The best and high profile gaming laptop are around $2,000. If anybody pay $4,000 for a laptop like you said, then they were ripped off.
I like your attitude. LOL. However, just 3 years ago, the cheapest laptops was $700. And 5 years ago, laptops were not less than $1,000. Be grateful, laptops nowadays are $400. And there is the 4-cores laptops for $1,000, which isn't heard of back then. 8-cores is currently in development. The biggest factor other than price is normal laptop versus gaming laptop. Other factors included: processor type, amount of RAM, screen size, weight, storage amount, etc...
Cheap isn't everything. It really depends on you and what you want. Netbooks won't cut in college because a laptop out performance netbook in term of functionality and performance. I like to think of netbook as half a laptop. Another factor is screen size. 17" is big and bulky, but good for gaming. 15.4" is normal. 14" is small and light. Bigger the screen, the more it weight. My 15.4" is 4.2 lbs, but it feel like a tons sometime.
$400 laptops are usually low grade laptop with the usual Pentium-dual core or single core, less than 2gb ram, low level video card, etc. Low grade means low performance means low price. This are usually for people who just want a laptop.
If you want an average laptop say for all typical schoolwork, you need 2-core (not pentium) from intel or amd, 2 gb, over 100 gb storage, webcam, mic, bluetooth, wireless adapter, plenty of outputs, and 15.4" screen or less will cost you $650. A 4-cores will cost $850.
For gaming laptops, you need at least duo-core 2, 4gb ram, 15.4" screen or higher, all gaming outputs like hdmi and firewire, webcam and mic, bluetooth and infrared as well as wireless data transfer, wireless adapter like N or higher, at least gt9400 or higher video card, 500 gb storage or higher, and 64 bits. It will be around $1,000. A 4-cores gaming is $1,500.
Most retail stores will charge you 7% tax, so online stores are more preferably. There are also warranty package and add-on to the laptops when buying it. I check dealigg.com, deals2buy.com, slickdeals.net, and fusedeals.com to find out the latest and cheapest laptops. Every retail stores has new deals every Sunday, while most online stores have random sales.
Netbooks are $150 to $400. Laptops are $400 to $2,000. Desktop is $350 to $1,000. The best and high profile gaming laptop are around $2,000. If anybody pay $4,000 for a laptop like you said, then they were ripped off.
I like your attitude. LOL. However, just 3 years ago, the cheapest laptops was $700. And 5 years ago, laptops were not less than $1,000. Be grateful, laptops nowadays are $400. And there is the 4-cores laptops for $1,000, which isn't heard of back then. 8-cores is currently in development. The biggest factor other than price is normal laptop versus gaming laptop. Other factors included: processor type, amount of RAM, screen size, weight, storage amount, etc...
Cheap isn't everything. It really depends on you and what you want. Netbooks won't cut in college because a laptop out performance netbook in term of functionality and performance. I like to think of netbook as half a laptop. Another factor is screen size. 17" is big and bulky, but good for gaming. 15.4" is normal. 14" is small and light. Bigger the screen, the more it weight. My 15.4" is 4.2 lbs, but it feel like a tons sometime.
$400 laptops are usually low grade laptop with the usual Pentium-dual core or single core, less than 2gb ram, low level video card, etc. Low grade means low performance means low price. This are usually for people who just want a laptop.
If you want an average laptop say for all typical schoolwork, you need 2-core (not pentium) from intel or amd, 2 gb, over 100 gb storage, webcam, mic, bluetooth, wireless adapter, plenty of outputs, and 15.4" screen or less will cost you $650. A 4-cores will cost $850.
For gaming laptops, you need at least duo-core 2, 4gb ram, 15.4" screen or higher, all gaming outputs like hdmi and firewire, webcam and mic, bluetooth and infrared as well as wireless data transfer, wireless adapter like N or higher, at least gt9400 or higher video card, 500 gb storage or higher, and 64 bits. It will be around $1,000. A 4-cores gaming is $1,500.
Most retail stores will charge you 7% tax, so online stores are more preferably. There are also warranty package and add-on to the laptops when buying it. I check dealigg.com, deals2buy.com, slickdeals.net, and fusedeals.com to find out the latest and cheapest laptops. Every retail stores has new deals every Sunday, while most online stores have random sales.
What is the best laptop for a college student?
Q. I'm on a budget. I'm hoping to get a really good laptop for under $700. I originally wanted a Macbook Pro but I later decided to just stick with windows. What would be a good laptop for me to get for college?
Answer
ASUS laptop.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230987
Core i5 3230M(2.60GHz) 15.6" 6GB Memory DDR3 1600 500GB HDD 5400rpm DVD±R/RW NVIDIA GeForce Dedicated 2GB GT 610M 1 Year Accidental Damage/30-Day Zero Bright Dot
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230416
Core i5 3210M(2.50GHz) 14.1" 8GB Memory 750GB HDD 5400rpm DVD±R/RW NVIDIA GeForce Dedicated 1GB GT 620M
Two HP that can be customized to what you need, Bump the APU and ram for better performance.
http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-ENVY/C9W57AV;pgid=c7twGfjc0ptSRpIq7ZUcoGXQ0000fb8mNv9y;sid=NID2W1inOb6JXwkRbh2qz4GoAJwzDmy78dUe8LW2AJwzDtPc7Kuhl6jI?HP-ENVY-15z-j000-Notebook-PC Starting at $530
http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-Pavilion/D1H55AV;pgid=c7twGfjc0ptSRpIq7ZUcoGXQ0000fb8mNv9y;sid=NID2W1inOb6JXwkRbh2qz4GoAJwzDmy78dUe8LW2AJwzDtPc7Kuhl6jI?HP-Pavilion-17z-e000-Notebook-PC Starting at $450 Your choice of 4 colors
http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-2000/D3X05AV;pgid=c7twGfjc0ptSRpIq7ZUcoGXQ0000fb8mNv9y;sid=NID2W1inOb6JXwkRbh2qz4GoAJwzDmy78dUe8LW2AJwzDtPc7Kuhl6jI?HP-2000z-2d00-Notebook-PC Starting at $350 Your choise 2 colors
These are not customizable
http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-ENVY/C2K91UA;pgid=c7twGfjc0ptSRpIq7ZUcoGXQ0000ptFcn-Ce;sid=UfkUk5vYup7bi8p-xu5OB0LXZeXRxq_ElKxaT319WyKZOCFLk0_Q5UIX?HP-ENVY-Sleekbook-6-1110us
HP SleekBook AMD Quad-Core A8-4555M APU AMD Radeon HD 7600G 4 GB DDR3 500 GB SATA (5400 rpm) $700
http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-ENVY/C2N66UA;pgid=c7twGfjc0ptSRpIq7ZUcoGXQ0000ptFcn-Ce;sid=UfkUk5vYup7bi8p-xu5OB0LXZeXRxq_ElKxaT319WyKZOCFLk0_Q5UIX?HP-ENVY-dv7-7230us-Notebook-PC
17" DV7-7230US laptop AMD Quad-Core A8-4500M APU AMD Radeon HD 7640G 6 GB DDR3 750 GB SATA (5400 rpm) $750
Brand buying advice
You get what you pay for. Systems with high end parts with low prices are to be viewed with suspicion. They have to cut corners somewhere to get the price down.
Apple makes a good quality laptop. The problem comes when it requires service or minor upgrades. It is near impossible to do anything with them. They even glue the battery and hard drive down so you can not change it. They solder the ram to the logic board so you can not increase it. They lock up most of the software so your stuck with what they approve.
Lenovo has serious stand behind their product problems. They bought IBM PC division and proceeded to drive the quality of the system into the ground. Their customer service is well below par. They even makes Dell customer service look good. The last and final thing to remember about them is they are a Chinese Government own company. It is up to you if you want to trust them.
Toshiba, Panasonic, Sony should be avoided because of their heavy modification of Windows and the drivers. If you remove some of the bloat they install, you can cripple the system.
Acer, Gateway, and eMachines should be avoided period. Low end system that are driving the race to the bottom.
Dell once made a good system and fell from grace. They are now struggling to regain their place in the market. Customer service is one of many problems with this company.
Alienware are glorified Dells and are more name then product. Priced extremely high for what you get. They do perform but you can get the same for less by looking around, just not packaged to be eye candy to the gamers.
Samsung has a history of using cheap parts in critical areas. Capacitors has been one area Samsung has a known history of going cheap, causing units to fail early. For that reason I would avoid them.
ASUS and HP do not modify Windows as bad as the other manufacturers. They have excellent build quality. They might add a lot of bloat but they also makes it easy to get rid of it.
Ultrabooks are the higher end of Wintel laptops but they have some of the same concerns as Apple. They make it next to impossible to change any hardware in them. Service of them will have to be done by the manufacturers. With most of them, you can not change your own battery or hard drive. They are designed to catch your eye but they are not any more special then other laptops except for the fact that they are slim or thin. Your paying for it being thin and slim. For the money your going to spend on it you can buy a much better laptop with more power.
Hybrids are the worse of the worse. The flip or detachable touch screens are just a disaster waiting to happen.
Never buy an All In One. They are far worst then laptops of any kind to service and they have a higher failure rate. My experience with them are limited because the few I worked on made me think they were designed in such a way as it would take a blow torch and a jack hammer just to disassemble them.
Choose wisely.
ASUS laptop.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230987
Core i5 3230M(2.60GHz) 15.6" 6GB Memory DDR3 1600 500GB HDD 5400rpm DVD±R/RW NVIDIA GeForce Dedicated 2GB GT 610M 1 Year Accidental Damage/30-Day Zero Bright Dot
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230416
Core i5 3210M(2.50GHz) 14.1" 8GB Memory 750GB HDD 5400rpm DVD±R/RW NVIDIA GeForce Dedicated 1GB GT 620M
Two HP that can be customized to what you need, Bump the APU and ram for better performance.
http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-ENVY/C9W57AV;pgid=c7twGfjc0ptSRpIq7ZUcoGXQ0000fb8mNv9y;sid=NID2W1inOb6JXwkRbh2qz4GoAJwzDmy78dUe8LW2AJwzDtPc7Kuhl6jI?HP-ENVY-15z-j000-Notebook-PC Starting at $530
http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-Pavilion/D1H55AV;pgid=c7twGfjc0ptSRpIq7ZUcoGXQ0000fb8mNv9y;sid=NID2W1inOb6JXwkRbh2qz4GoAJwzDmy78dUe8LW2AJwzDtPc7Kuhl6jI?HP-Pavilion-17z-e000-Notebook-PC Starting at $450 Your choice of 4 colors
http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-2000/D3X05AV;pgid=c7twGfjc0ptSRpIq7ZUcoGXQ0000fb8mNv9y;sid=NID2W1inOb6JXwkRbh2qz4GoAJwzDmy78dUe8LW2AJwzDtPc7Kuhl6jI?HP-2000z-2d00-Notebook-PC Starting at $350 Your choise 2 colors
These are not customizable
http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-ENVY/C2K91UA;pgid=c7twGfjc0ptSRpIq7ZUcoGXQ0000ptFcn-Ce;sid=UfkUk5vYup7bi8p-xu5OB0LXZeXRxq_ElKxaT319WyKZOCFLk0_Q5UIX?HP-ENVY-Sleekbook-6-1110us
HP SleekBook AMD Quad-Core A8-4555M APU AMD Radeon HD 7600G 4 GB DDR3 500 GB SATA (5400 rpm) $700
http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-ENVY/C2N66UA;pgid=c7twGfjc0ptSRpIq7ZUcoGXQ0000ptFcn-Ce;sid=UfkUk5vYup7bi8p-xu5OB0LXZeXRxq_ElKxaT319WyKZOCFLk0_Q5UIX?HP-ENVY-dv7-7230us-Notebook-PC
17" DV7-7230US laptop AMD Quad-Core A8-4500M APU AMD Radeon HD 7640G 6 GB DDR3 750 GB SATA (5400 rpm) $750
Brand buying advice
You get what you pay for. Systems with high end parts with low prices are to be viewed with suspicion. They have to cut corners somewhere to get the price down.
Apple makes a good quality laptop. The problem comes when it requires service or minor upgrades. It is near impossible to do anything with them. They even glue the battery and hard drive down so you can not change it. They solder the ram to the logic board so you can not increase it. They lock up most of the software so your stuck with what they approve.
Lenovo has serious stand behind their product problems. They bought IBM PC division and proceeded to drive the quality of the system into the ground. Their customer service is well below par. They even makes Dell customer service look good. The last and final thing to remember about them is they are a Chinese Government own company. It is up to you if you want to trust them.
Toshiba, Panasonic, Sony should be avoided because of their heavy modification of Windows and the drivers. If you remove some of the bloat they install, you can cripple the system.
Acer, Gateway, and eMachines should be avoided period. Low end system that are driving the race to the bottom.
Dell once made a good system and fell from grace. They are now struggling to regain their place in the market. Customer service is one of many problems with this company.
Alienware are glorified Dells and are more name then product. Priced extremely high for what you get. They do perform but you can get the same for less by looking around, just not packaged to be eye candy to the gamers.
Samsung has a history of using cheap parts in critical areas. Capacitors has been one area Samsung has a known history of going cheap, causing units to fail early. For that reason I would avoid them.
ASUS and HP do not modify Windows as bad as the other manufacturers. They have excellent build quality. They might add a lot of bloat but they also makes it easy to get rid of it.
Ultrabooks are the higher end of Wintel laptops but they have some of the same concerns as Apple. They make it next to impossible to change any hardware in them. Service of them will have to be done by the manufacturers. With most of them, you can not change your own battery or hard drive. They are designed to catch your eye but they are not any more special then other laptops except for the fact that they are slim or thin. Your paying for it being thin and slim. For the money your going to spend on it you can buy a much better laptop with more power.
Hybrids are the worse of the worse. The flip or detachable touch screens are just a disaster waiting to happen.
Never buy an All In One. They are far worst then laptops of any kind to service and they have a higher failure rate. My experience with them are limited because the few I worked on made me think they were designed in such a way as it would take a blow torch and a jack hammer just to disassemble them.
Choose wisely.
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