$1000 laptop

NH VW Junky · Moderator Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 7617

If you were going to buy $1000 laptop what would you buy? I'm open to a Mac if the budget could work.

I need space, decent monitor, portability, Wireless, DVD Burner, XP is preferred vs Vista if I go PC. The faster the better of course.

My uses will be basic documents, presentations, browsing, pictures, etc. I'm not a super power user or anything. If I was, the budget would be 2.5x.

I hope to order by the end of the week, I'll post back the short list.

Thanks for any input.
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B5Greg · B5three Joined: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 1544 Location: CT

Get a refurbed Dell. I have gotten 5 already in the last 6 years and they are all awesome! Can get something pretty nice easily for your price range.
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NH VW Junky · Moderator Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 7617

Thanks, that is in consideration, from that whole refurbed site out there. I've had a couple Dells and my Thinkpads have seemed so much better. Is it just me?

Also, isn't Dell on the verge of going out of business?
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Foosh · Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 8:14 pm Post subject:

I have always been a fan of hp's, to be honest. www.newegg.com always has great deals, as well as www.tigerdirect.com

vwb5t · B5one Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 320 Location: Eastern CT

got my compaq a few years back for around $900, at the time it was one of the only ones i cold find with windows xp and a decent screen, that was back when vista came out and everyone thought it was the cats meow but i needed XP to run VAGCOM cause most people were having issues with VAGCOM and vista
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NH VW Junky · Moderator Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 7617

Thanks for the input, I've been looking at HPs, Lenovos, and even some refurbs that might be too good of a deal to pass up.
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emerican_dub · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:53 pm Post subject:

junky look into sager Thumbs Up

http://www.sagernotebook.com/category.php

also i know it says "gaming" laptop but don't let that fool you. a friend of mine his father uses one of these in a Halo room his company owns. he says for the price you can't beat them. they cover you for EVERYTHING.

dell refurb is the way to go if you're not into something like sager and/or another thinkpad. i personally won't buy another thinkpad they're a little behind the times but they make great workstations.
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