Laptop recommendation for $750 or less

**Doctor Feelgood**

Looking around and I don't know what to consider.

Main thing I see is that I will take the base offerings out there and upgrade to at least 2GB of memory on my own! They still charge big bucks for laptop memory, even though 2GB of decent stuff is like $40! Laughing

I want WiFi, 15.4" (widescreen), dual core around 2GHz... Pretty flexible though.

I can put together a Dell Vostro for about that much money, but I am out of the loops on anything but desktops...

Thanks!

**Modulok** · Posted: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:56:22 Post Subject:

At work we get Dell Latitudes now. They are good, but it depends on what you want to use it for. Like if you want to use a flash card, don't get a Latitude because they don't have the slots built in like an Inspiron would.

I'd check out buy.com for deals, you probably could find a decent one for like 700-900 with your features.

Spire · Posted: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:21:48 Post Subject:

The last two I bought were both HP's not one issue with either one, one vista and one XP, neither has ever been reloaded.

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

The wife has a Gateway, I have an HP, and at work we use Lenovo. No issues with either of them.

You are right, don't buy the 2GB of memory when you get the laptop, do that yourself. The other things are fairly reasonable.

Blue|Fusion · Posted: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:14:54 Post Subject:

My mom got a Gateway last year against every one of my instructions. She hates it. I hate it more because I have to fix it for her all the time.

My laptop is an ASUS A6jc. I love it. I took a peek on Newegg just now and cheapest one is $799, though. If you can find one within your budget, go for it. Solid construction and has everything you need and more. The fan on mine literally is inaudible and the CPU and GPU still stay well under limits.

You can also easily replace RAM with your own, too. There's a panel right over the RAM so you can replace it.

FOX · Posted: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:26:14 Post Subject:

i just bought one of these last week to replace my 6 month old acer laptop which i sold to my dad

http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/HP-Pavilion-dv6775us-15-4-Widescreen-Laptop-DV6775US/sem/rpsm/oid/200331/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do

its a little more than 750 but the specs on it are great for the price 3gig ram 250hdd 8400m gs not bad most places still sell it for over 1000 yet

Blue|Fusion · Posted: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:53:37 Post Subject:

Cheapest suitable one I could find is a 17" widescreen with an AMD 1.8GHz dual core. It has an ATI graphics card which I'm not too fond of, but you may not care. Atleast it's not an onboard graphics card so you can get some decent 3D performance.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220230

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:43:04 Post Subject:

I was just at Circuit City today and a bunch of HPs don't look bad. The 3GB one was there... COuld probably save some money doing that kind of upgrade myself.

Hadn't looked at ASUS really, or a 17" model... But I am really liking the one you posted Blue|Fusion. Has lots of ports, too... eSATA, HDMI, Firewire, many USB...

BeerCheeze · Posted: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:46:43 Post Subject:

The Acers are pretty dam good laptops. I can also say I had good luck with an HP one. But EVERY, and I mean EVERY Dell laptop I have had has had problems. Batteries that were bad (defective), latches that wouldn't hold the battery in (literally used tape on that one), motherboards failing, PCMCIA cards not working (and then when fixed they put in the wrong motherboard/video card). Everyone one of us at work that have Dells have had problems..

So yea... you can say I'm saying NO to Dell.

Spire · Posted: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:41:47 Post Subject:

Panasonic Toughbook DROOOOOOL

No more worries about damage!!!

GOTTA HAVE ONE OF THESE!!!

I am putting in justification paperwork to get two of these for work...