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Jan 7, 2011 | 10:32 PM

Dan

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Paranoid/backup laptop . . .

Thought my PC died the other day, but I fixed the problem. What is and where to get the cheapest laptop that will run financial software?

Jan 8, 2011 | 06:41 AM

rza49311

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What do you consider cheap ? Less than $500 ?

Jan 8, 2011 | 06:54 AM

dallison

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look on slickdeals/fatwallet/techbargains

I saw an hp that was $350 w/250g memory

Jan 8, 2011 | 07:46 AM

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whatever is on sale.

Jan 8, 2011 | 10:46 AM

Will Y.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Dan

Thought my PC died the other day, but I fixed the problem. What is and where to get the cheapest laptop that will run financial software?

Will your financial software run on Windows 7, or is it some proprietary program that uses Windows XP?

Costco has refurbed laptops w/ Windows 7 OS, i3 processors and warranties for $400, but no other software.

Jan 8, 2011 | 11:20 AM

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You're realistically looking around $400 for a laptop thats new(ish)

Jan 9, 2011 | 02:41 PM

Will Y.

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Sales...

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Originally Posted by Whiskers

whatever is on sale.

Every chain store seems to have a sale on new i3 + Windows 7 laptops for less than $500 this weekend.
I'm biased towards newer Intel-chipped machines, but note that there are also some Celeron

, Pentium, Athlon and Turion chipped laptops that are near $400 new, as are desktop towers with the i3.