computer question

[gsneff]

i was thinking about getting a laptop and looked on ebay and saw you could pick one up for about $100 without the operating system. well windows 7 only costs about $75 i found with a quick search of google. is there something i should know about getting one of the computers? i have very little knowledge about computers so help me out as much as possible. also what in your opinions should i get for memory and ram and stuff for casual use?

 

[themcfarland]

You cannot go wrong with one of the HP pcs from walmart...

any of the new laptops are fast enough to support anything you should ever want to do..

as a rule price wise.. if you can afford one with more ram.. get it.. even if it has less hardrive..

 

[gsneff]

the biggest thing is i want to take some classes i have available to me during my down time at work. i work in a model home and on slow days with bad weather i don't have much to do. the work provided computer has too many limitations to allow me to do what i need to do. i need to have a cd drive for many of these classes. a secondary use would be watching movies during trips.

 

[gsneff]

well most netbooks don't have a cdrom drive so scratch that

you can find some great deals on the outlet pages of major laptop manufacturers:

http://outlet.lenovo.com
http://www.dell.com/outlet
http://www.shopping.hp.com/outlet

it's hard finding a good used laptop that's worth a damn. chances are the people selling it are doing so for a reason whether it's a piece of hardware that is failing or just not fast enough for modern software. it's like buying a used car, you never know what you're going to get.

if you can find one cheap though i can probably hook you up with a legit windows 7 key. i've got a bizspark account with a bunch of keys i'm not using.

thanks.

this is what the couress say i need for the class' software. if i get the 'recommended' level will that be pretty decent for other things as well?

Pentium III 600-megahertz (MHz) processor or equivalent (1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor recommended)
At least 256 megabytes (MB) of RAM (512 MB recommended)

 

[LACamper]

A few weeks ago I bought my wife a compaq (made by HP) laptop for about $350. It was a full sized new laptop w/ a gig of ram and 128megs of vram. It had a cd rom and a 250 gig hard drive.
If I hadn't found that I was going to buy one of the asus remanufactured netbooks from www.mwave.com for $160.
http://www.mwave.com/mwave/skusearch_v3.asp?scriteria=BA37756

It doesn't have a cd rom but you can add a usb cd rom for not much.

btw, customer service from mwave has been fantastic. I called them one afternoon about a driver problem a few years ago for something. They said they'd get back to me the next day. 10am the next morning fedex was at my door with a burned cd-rom. Can't get better service than that!

 

[W1nds0rF0x]

i was thinking about getting a laptop and looked on ebay and saw you could pick one up for about $100 without the operating system. well windows 7 only costs about $75 i found with a quick search of google. is there something i should know about getting one of the computers? i have very little knowledge about computers so help me out as much as possible. also what in your opinions should i get for memory and ram and stuff for casual use?

Um, where are you buying Win 7 for $75??

 

[gsneff]

Um, where are you buying Win 7 for $75??

http://www.google.com/products/cata...S6Fp_g2QTauZXzBQ&sa=title&ved=0CA0Q8wIwATgA#p

 

[CZowner07]

I just bought this PC from Office Depot. I am satisfied so far...
http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/271242/HP-Pavilion-dv4-2164us-141-Widescreen/

 

[W1nds0rF0x]

http://www.google.com/products/cata...S6Fp_g2QTauZXzBQ&sa=title&ved=0CA0Q8wIwATgA#p

That's an upgrade...

 

[gsneff]

That's an upgrade...

just showing how little i know about computers and what not!

hell i get confues about ram, rom, and hard drive!

 

[BigNick73]

I would spend a bit more and get something along these lines

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834114789

That should cover everything you need, and do it fast enough that you don't throw it out the window.

 

[W1nds0rF0x]

I would spend a bit more and get something along these lines

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834114789

That should cover everything you need, and do it fast enough that you don't throw it out the window.

Yep. Also I saw Tiger Direct had off lease Lenovo T42's for $300 last week.

 

[kajuntriton]