Posted March 27, 200520 yr So, I'm graduating soon and my parents have already told me that my graduation present is gonna be a laptop for college. Now, my dad's pretty computer savvy (he's a software engineer) and knows what he's doing, but he's also partial to Dell. I was just wonder if a)that's a bad thing and b)what are some reccomended laptops (not just for gaming, i need it for my classes too)
March 27, 200520 yr Dell, from what I've seen and heard, makes top quality laptops... From their US Site, I'd get the XPS Gen 2. http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/inspn_xps2?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
March 27, 200520 yr well if you can do it gaming on it, id say its a safe bet it can do pretty much any school thing you want it to do. -G
March 27, 200520 yr that laptop will kick most cimputers here in the pants. Those mobile processors run just as fast as the a64s and sometimes faster.
March 28, 200520 yr our school requires we buy a high end laptop (this years model is the HP nw8000 workstation) with a Pentium M, its a pretty **** proc. If they made it for desktops they would seriously own AMD. Ours is 1.7 Ghz, I cant imagine the 2.0, it must be pretty sweet
March 28, 200520 yr So, I'm graduating soon and my parents have already told me that my graduation present is gonna be a laptop for college. Now, my dad's pretty computer savvy (he's a software engineer) and knows what he's doing, but he's also partial to Dell. I was just wonder if a)that's a bad thing and b)what are some reccomended laptops (not just for gaming, i need it for my classes too) i recommend dell. it's what i use, and i'm a computer geek.
March 28, 200520 yr DON'T BUY DEEL! Sorry to diss em but they may have cheap prices and goog technical support but. (A) you get what you pay for in computers never forget that? ( i've had to format and fix my moms computer 3 times since she'd had it! And she's only had it like 3 weeks?
March 28, 200520 yr DON'T BUY DEEL! Sorry to diss em but they may have cheap prices and goog technical support but. (A) you get what you pay for in computers never forget that? ( i've had to format and fix my moms computer 3 times since she'd had it! And she's only had it like 3 weeks? Well that could be caused by your mom, Dell in general are great computers.
March 28, 200520 yr Yep, most computer problems (especially those that require reformats) are generally user generated problems. Dell makes good PC's all around (when talking the pre-built/preconfigered), and the most I've ever had to wait on a part (on the rare occasion it was needed) was 24 hours. Haven't heard anything bad about their laptops either. At work, we use Compaq/HP (damn contract.. ), but the laptops we've been getting are like 9200-9800's and they all seem to be pretty good (except for the outside sales rep we have who is constantly bringing it back to me with a bug or a load of adware in it, again, user generated problem.. lol). TFD
March 28, 200520 yr Take my computer. It's a simple Dell 4600. I paid $800 (5 year warranty included). It has had 0 hardware problems. Any issue was always caused by the user (usually someone other than me) making a mistake. Now software issues are a different matter. You can't blame the hardware for that in most cases.
March 28, 200520 yr DON'T BUY DEEL! Sorry to diss em but they may have cheap prices and goog technical support but. (A) you get what you pay for in computers never forget that? ( i've had to format and fix my moms computer 3 times since she'd had it! And she's only had it like 3 weeks? Yeah I have to agree with you on don't buy a Dell, I just don't really like them. Now if you have the money and want to buy a good laptop I recommend a good HP.
March 29, 200520 yr Author Ya, Dell and HP were the brands I was looking at. I seem to have a mixed bag of opinions.
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