Marc S

I know im probably gettin a laptop for christmas since my computer at home is pretty much shot. What are some good laptops out there? Im just lookin for some decent memory, dvd and cd burner, etc..... TIA

Water-S

I'd go with HP. I have had a HP home PC for about a year(with AMD XP1800,DVD burner,512 mgs of ram,80 gig hard drive and 64 mg video card). other than a optic mouse going bad(knock on wood) it's been VERY good.and when i called them about the optic mouse they were very quick about getting it to me. (they didn't give me crap about returning it or anything) . and i use my PC a good amount.(atleast 3-4 hours a day most of the time here on Acura-cl.com )
but WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T BUY A GATEWAY. i had a gateway before my HP. it was the worst PC i've ever had. we bought it brand new with a 3 year warrenty. and in 3 years it went through 3 hard drives,a power source, a mother board,CD-Rom unit and something else(i forget sorry). and on the last hard drive I had to threaten to take them to court cause I purchased the big warrenty and they wouldn't take my hard drive back saying i'm abusing the computer. I said look I never abused the computer it sits inside all i do with it pretty much is write college papers,surf the net, and play a game now and then. if you call that abuse that's a piss poor computer . they kept on giving me sh!t, i said look I'm calling my lawyer once i get off the phone if you don't give me the hard drive and I got the contract right here in my hand says 3 YEARS . so finally they ended up eating the cost of the hard drive but that took a good 2-3 weeks.

now Dell I don't like Dell. they don't use AMD chips(which i really like), plus I had a management teacher who bought a Dell new and she had a heck of time with Dell(she tells every class she has not to buy Dell) plus my school used to have Dells the drives would make "funky sounds" i'm like this POS is gonna blow up

Slooo97CL

iTrader: (1)

Id go with a Toshiba Satellite my g/f's bro got one...its beautiful...2.0 ghz 256 ram DVD/CDRW burner (not a dvd bruner) 40 gigs of HDD...its a nice laptop

Silver™

Try this deal:

Toshiba Satellite Notebook with Intel® Celeron® Processor 1.8GHz
Model: 1415-S173
15"TFT
DVD/CDRW
256MB SDRAM
30GIG HD
Geforce 16MB w/TV-OUT
V92 & 10/100 Lan
On sale: $1199.99

http://www.bestbuy.com/detail.asp?e=...t=494&scat=495

+ you get 3 mail-in rebates, for a total of $550 back.

$200 http://www.bestbuy.com/rebatecenter/...1444&s=4814133
$300 http://www.bestbuy.com/rebatecenter/...1444&s=4814133
$50 http://www.bestbuy.com/rebatecenter/...1444&s=4814133

xenon7

DELL "INSPIRON" SERIES:
you will not be sorry!

malu

here is some from techbargains, it ends today, but im sure more will pop up soon

Last day. Dell Small Business has free ground shipping and upto $100 off desktops, upto $250 off notebooks, upto $350 off workstations, and upto $300 off servers.

50% off 2nd Processor, $100 cash-back rebate, plus 50% off Rack Cabinets on select servers.
Free Carrying Case with purchase of an Inspiron notebook!
Double the Hard Drive, plus free upgrade to CD-RW on select WorkStations!

15% off all PowerEdge and PowerEdge SC servers coupon code: D3F792C02B0A
10% Off Dell Flat Panel Monitors. Coupon code: F4DB3572816B

Sales tax is charged, individuals can order using their name in company name field.

Budget Notebook - Inspiron 2650C Celeron 1.5 Ghz 256MB DDR/30GB Cheap DVD/24x CDRW Upgrade 14.1" XGA Screen XP Home $899 shipped free.

Select Notebooks, Choose Inspiron, Featured Systems under 2650C, Customize it on $899, - Continue, Add to cart.

Budget desktop: Dimension 2350 Celeron 2Ghz 128MB DDR/30GB, 10/100 Ethernet card, 6 months Internet access, XP Home $399 shipped free.

Select Desktops, Choose Dimension, Customize it under 2350, Select Celeron 2Ghz/XP Home/Wordperfect/1yr - Continue. 128MB/1yr warranty/30GB Value/No monitor/No speakers/No Modem - Continue, Add to cart

Powerful Desktop deal: Dimension 4550 P4-2.4Ghz (Faster 533Mhz bus) Free upgrade to 256MB DDR Memory/30GB CD ATI video card, XP Home MS Works $549 shipped free.

4550 P4-2Ghz version is $40 less.

Select Desktops, Choose Dimension, Customize It 4550, 2.4Ghz/XP Home/Basic Audio/1yr - Continue, Free upgrade to 256MB/Works/No monitor/No Speaker - Continue, Add to cart,

Slooo97CL

iTrader: (1)

DONT I REPEAT DO NOT GET A CELERON CHIP THEY SUCK
Pentium 4 or the AMD nothing else...

Water-S

yeah I 2nd that Celeron chips blow

Silver™

That is a 1.8Ghz Celeron for $650 after rebate. How much would a comparable Pentium or Athlon cost?

Also, what programs would he not be able to run with a 1.8Ghz Celeron?

What makes the Celeron suck? It has the same architecture as the older Pentium 4 it just has less L2 Cache (256kb vs. 128kb).