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Reliable laptop review site?

post #1 of 8
8/9/11 at 8:10pm
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Looking to buy a laptop but overwhelmed by the amount of choices. Any of you tech enthusiasts know a reliable review site for laptops/notebooks?

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post #2 of 8
8/10/11 at 3:00pm

Engadget, Gizmodo, Cnet, Maximum PC, PC World...

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post #3 of 8
8/10/11 at 3:03pm
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Alright thanks.

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post #4 of 8
8/10/11 at 3:11pm
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Originally Posted by WisdomListens View Post

Alright thanks.


What's your budget, needs,etc?

 

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post #5 of 8
8/10/11 at 3:25pm

Check this:

http://www.notebookreview.com/

 

I did some research there before buying mine. smile.gif

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post #6 of 8
8/10/11 at 5:09pm
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Originally Posted by cifani090 View Post




What's your budget, needs,etc?

 



Its actually for my dad and he's going to use it for microsoft office and other everyday kind of things. He also wants the laptop to be good at playing movies and videos.

Budget is ~$600

 

Plus: a good amount of battery life if possible.*


Edited by WisdomListens - 8/10/11 at 7:42pm
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post #7 of 8
8/11/11 at 11:10am

I would get a HP or a Lenovo for that price.  Those are really the only brands that you can get for that price with some decent specs, other than some companies like Toshiba or Samsung.  Asus makes nice laptops as well, although they're usually a bit pricier.  Personally I'd stay away from Toshiba and those companies only because they make so few laptops and there's very little support on the web if anything goes wrong, barely anyone owns one, although there's isn't anything wrong quality wise with what they make.

 

If you check around bensbargains you can find some pretty decent deals.  For $600 I'd say you should at least be able to get at least an i5 and you really don't want to go below 4gb of ram.  The graphics card probably isn't a big deal, but anything not made by intel is ideal.  If you get an intel processor do your best to get a 2nd generation sandy bridge cpu, which are basically all of the i3, i5, and i7's with a 4 digit number (like 2630) after them.  The first generation ones will have a 3 digit number.

 

I saw this the other day, it's a really good deal in my opinion.  I don't know if you'd be able to get the student discount but even without it I'd say it's fairly good.

http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/56503/office-depot-asus-u56erbl7-laptop-core-i5-2410m-2.3ghz-cpu-8gb-ddr3-750gb-hdd-15.6-1600x900-lcd-dvdrw-wifi-win-7-home-prem

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post #8 of 8
8/11/11 at 11:34am

I dont know, i had 2 hp laptops and they gave me a lot of problems. The DVxxx series were crap. 

I'd look into Gateway. 

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