I am in the market for a new LT in the very near future. My budget is $750-$1000, or less obviously.

This will be a home system and at home I am not a heavy user at all. I am your simple e-mail, internet, instant messenger user. But I do want quality. I won't be carrying it outside of my apartment much, if at all so portability is not important to me.

Any recommendations?

Thank guys

 

for that price, i would recommend taking a look at best buy or circuit city's weekly ads.

you can get a pretty nice laptop for under $1000 from reputable brands: toshiba, HP, etc.

 

If you don't plan on getting it out of your house, go with a desktop.

http://www.dell.com/content/products...n&s=dhs&~ck=mn

As you can see, a nice desktop is 300-400. Drop 400 on a monitor and you've gota 30 some inch screen with a great desktop.

Still in your budget rang, and you can upgrade if you need.

 

I don't want to get a desktop because it requires a desk and therefor more furniture, for which I don't really have room.

But thanks.

 

you can get something for what you need from bestbuy or circuity for ~$600

just check out the sales every week

 

I just searched for a lapto in your range for a friend of mine, Best Buy has pretty good deals, but I was able to built a great laptop on dell.com for $950...

Check out their Studio 15 line. Let me know how it turns out for you, as I'm curious, I also need an average workhorse laptop.

 

Shop around for deals on HP or Dell's website. Every so often a deal comes out and you can save a couple hundred bucks and get something nicer.

personally, I'm not a fan of buying laptops that are preconfigured for you when you can buy a laptop that is roughly the same price when configured online, but doing it this way you had a choice of what you put into it.

 

and visit www.techbargains.com

 

Just bought this:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1213046783444

 

^ Wow, good deal, thanks for sharing!

 

^ Stay away from integrated VGAs... It doesn't matter if you don't play games or do media editting. Just my

 

why?

 

there's nothing wrong with integrated video

 

it uses processor resource, but you should be fine.

 

i just bought one very similar off dell, except mine is 2.0ghz,3gb ram,250gb hd for $660 after tax,(free 2 days shipping) and the custom top.

 

^Looks nice

 

I called Dell and asked if they could beat that deal. They said "no"