Ok, I am in need of another laptop. Another one goes down in a years time. I do not want to spend a bunch of cash on another laptop, as we are going through them to fast. I broke one a few months ago and my son took another one down. I am out of the game as far as processors, GB's etc... Help me find a budget laptop. Locally, I have Bestbuy, Sams Club, Staples, Office Max and Walmart. I could order online though, no problem with that. My last two were a Toshiba laptop and an HP. If you know of any decent laptops on the cheap side from a reputable company let me know. We just use it for web browsing, printing things, looking at photos etc. No gaming or anything like that.
Man that is rough. I have had my HP laptop for 6 years now, I have been pretty lucky with it. It was a $1100 laptop back when I bought it. My family has had good luck pretty good luck with hp and dell, other than that I don't know much about other brands. Good luck with windows 8 if you get a computer with that
I have an HP as well....5 years and going strong haven't done a thing to it...mine was 800 new Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using Tapatalk 2
My current laptop that I purchased for school is a HP. I'm in my second semester with it and I've been happy. I went with a smaller screen size so I could get more computing power and ended up spending around $700.
Tigerdirect.com has great prices. Great value laptop is a gateway. On our second. First lasted years.
My Dell has lasted since 2005 but I made the switch to the Mac... I think google has a new laptop out but I don't know much about it.
We've had unusually good luck with my wife's Gateway (5 years old and no serious problems other than I reformatted it and took Vista off, and XP on 2 years ago). Toshiba makes a solid, reputable Laptop as well. For basic uses like you want, you might even consider a Chromebook as Dubbya is mentioning. It's more scaled down for content consumption (browsing, watching videos/photos, email, etc,) and built of Google's Chrome OS. The catch? They're setup more for online storage (using cloud storage services) rather than local storage, so you won't see big HDDs, or SSDs, etc. Just simple. Price's are lower as well (for most versions).
I need one too, fitting pretty much the exact description already given. Come on guys keep the suggestions coming.
Take it from a guy who studied computers in high school and college and has worked on hundreds if not thousands of machines. DO NOT GET AN HP! That means no compaq either. If you want a quality machine go with Dell or Toshiba.
Man, I was counting on you guys to come through for me.... Can't count on you guys for ****! So, it appears I will be at the mercy of some 19 year old who gets hard ons from animated chicks and the latest electronics to understand I don't need Tony Stark technology to browse the web.
Told you...HP Pavillion...$700. I've had it over 7 months and its been a good one. Toshiba Satellites are good too, I've had a couple of them in the past, but I've never been happy with the battery on them.
I liked my satelite for a while... That is the laptop that I broke about four or five months ago... It ran good for about a year then it started giving me problems and it decided to not work right one day when I was in a hurry and irritated. I went office space on it.
I caught the brand recommendation, I was looking for more on the line of, hey buckeye, buy one of these specific laptops.
It's not going to be my personal computer, my wife uses it and my son plays kid games on nick and disney Jr. I just need something to browse the net, watch videos and store and look at digital photos. To tell you the truth I don't even care what bow I shoot anymore. I look at it as a tool anymore. I purchase based on specs, weight is foremost, then compact then I really don't care much from there.
