Laptop Woes
March 23, 2006
Today I’m not feeling very well at all. Poor David spent thirty cents calling me at lunch time, just a few minutes after he called I had to let him go because I felt like I was going to vomit (and I did). It sucked because I look forward to his lunch time calls all day, because then I get to talk to someone besides myself and my parents.
My mom is currently researching into getting me a new laptop. It kinda sucks, because it won’t be nearly as nice as the Dell Latitude D610 the school loaned me…but I suppose it will be mine. Although, I fell in love with the Dell Latitude D610, it’s so sleek and pretty! The one she’s looking at may be less expensive, but I so do not belive that cheaper is better. Maybe it’s better for your bank account, but the last “cheap” laptop I had reall was cheap. I use my laptops for typing, and the laptop she bought me has a messed up keyboard that annoyed me. If I were to use it, I would have to attach a normal keyboard to the back of it and type off that. So I’m really nervous about this whole “cheaper” laptop, I mean it’s going to be cheap for a reason right? If anyone could suggest a very nice, high performance, light-weight laptop for “cheap”, then please email me with the details! I’m not sure what I’m supposed to look for in a laptop, but I’m sure someone out there is a computer geek - er, I mean, has more knowledge on the matter.
March 23rd, 2006 at 8:11 pm
Personally, I like Dell Latitudes and IBM Thinkpads. I don’t like the Inspirions because they’re not built quite as well.
I currently use a Latitude C810. I like it because the keyboard is wide enough to be comfortable, and the processor is fast enough for my needs (my operating system is not windows).
You’ll probably want something like this C640, which is new enough to have a faster processor than my C810, but old enough to cost less than $1000 (US). (Note that this computer has a 2-gigahertz processor, while some other C640s only have a 1.8 gigahertz.)
Whatever your parents end up getting, make sure it has NO LESS THAN 512MB of RAM. Windows XP doesn’t do too well with anything less than that.
Here are some links:
http://www.streetprices.com/
http://www.dealtime.com/
http://www.pricewatch.com/
ttp://www.overstock.com/
http://www.newegg.com/
http://www.bizrate.com/
http://www.epinions.com/