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Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:18 pm

This may be a tad bit off angled, but... I'd like your opinion for something.

My little sister is planning to get a laptop. it needs to be:

User Friendly
Decent performance (not a killer Gaming PC that can run Bioshock with full on full on Everything turned on can-see-beads-of-sweat-on-forehead kind of performance.)
and Last, but not least, NOT A MAC She hates them after the warrenty deal on her iPod and threatens that if she does get a MacBook, no matter how good it is, will send her foot through the screen.

Price Range for this one is a bit high, set at $1,200 USD.

I originally was planning to get her a decent Dell Inspiron, or an HP. Building one is not an option in this case, and Integrated Webcam/Mic would be a plus, but not a requirement. Please take into consideration that this is in fact a Young Girl in Japan. Something Chromed out sleek and sexy would be a plus, as well, but again it is a girl, and knowing my sister, she'd like pink.

Ragdoll · Post by **Ragdoll** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:25 pm

I found a good deal here. You can customize it any way you want ( make it pink xD) But it's an amazing laptop for a great price.

Fixed hyperlink.

bibbit · Post by **bibbit** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:33 pm

tomg44 wrote:Edit: for some reason when hyperlinked the url messes up.

You screwed up the BBCode.

Plus, it seems there is no pink color.

sneakyn8 · Post by **sneakyn8** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:42 pm

i personally have a dell desktop and my only complaints is that it is rather old and does not age well also the customer service people always have an indian accent that is to difficult too understand

0m3g4Muff1n987 · Post by **0m3g4Muff1n987** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:21 pm

Well duh the customer support is going to have indian accents, they're all in india.

HPDarkness · Post by **HPDarkness** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:36 am

Try to find a Toshiba laptop. Good ones run for around $599.

Hawaiian Modder · Post by **Hawaiian Modder** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:30 pm

I recommend buying a virus software with that. My sister always clicks those "Your A winner" ads, depending on your sisters age, she probably will to. Also something with at least 1 gig of ram, As a computer gets older it gets slower, so 512 eventually won't cut it.
I would go with a HP or Dell, I think the new dells are extremely customizable.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:57 pm

Surprisingly, my sister has been well trained in the art of that stuff. With her desktop computer, her main issue is Limewire and Game downloads. After 3-4 Reformats, she has learned not to use untrustworthy P2P programs. She's been without antivirus for about 5 months now and hasn't required a reformat yet.

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:37 pm

guess thats alright (a whole reformat is pretty shocking ;p)
go dell laptop. XP 1gb ram, 80gb hdd, core 2 duo 2.2GHz and maybe anti virus...However I absolutely hate anti virus programs, especially norton and mcafe...Their intrusiveness pisses me off sooooo much. If those programs were people they'd be underneath my foot.

But really, if she is a somewhat casual user and actually will use a laptop for whats its for, some of the dell lappy's have quite good battery life (mines 9 hours). Plus at least in Australia, their service rules. Next day fixing for free ftw. I recommended XP coz I assumed she'd already be used to it. Vista could be daunting for people very much used to XP...Yet its excellent for people who haven't used computers much (which isn't many people really coz they all use XP)

Plus it'd probably be cheap for you (especially since everything over in America is cheap compared to the rest of the world [for no real reason] coz you all suck).

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:10 am

I don't know what it is, but she learned on both almost equally. Her desktop PC in Japan was XP. All the time she spent here, she used my Dad's PC with Vista Ultimate, and got pretty acquainted with it. I sent her a few of the links, including the one from ibuypower. She liked the stats, and now she's split between the XPS (Non-Gaming, of course) and the one from ibuypower. Any new suggestions would be great, but which of the two would you suggest?

Cryticfarm · Post by **Cryticfarm** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:04 am

Hawaiian Modder wrote:I recommend buying a virus software with that. My sister always clicks those "Your A winner" ads, depending on your sisters age, she probably will to. Also something with at least 1 gig of ram, As a computer gets older it gets slower, so 512 eventually won't cut it.
I would go with a HP or Dell, I think the new dells are extremely customizable.

No
HP.

Hawaiian Modder · Post by **Hawaiian Modder** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 12:31 pm

Any reasoning behind your reply.
Also, even if she is good with all the staying away from viruses, I still recommend any type of virus protection, just so the computer doesn't go to shit once you get a virus. I use Trend Micro and It is really helpfull, scans don't take 4 hours like norton and It ask's me before I do stupid stuff in a little notify pop-up, so I really like it. It also warns me if it finds out a program might be a virus immediately and quarantines anything virus like then notify's. All in all it's a good program.

JunkfoodMan · Post by **JunkfoodMan** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:39 pm

Well, if she does want anti-virus, just get AVG Free =\

Munsie · Post by **Munsie** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:54 pm

JunkfoodMan wrote:AVG Free =\

I dislike AVG a lot, I went to the lengths to remove it. Slowed my computer down far too much and found very few threats.