Re: Laptop troubles

In article <THAWh.2422$lq2.1666@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
rpiehl5REMOVETHISFOR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
Carl Navarro wrote:
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:44:34 -0400, T <nospam.kd1s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

In article <132i6tsmj8nta39@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, zbang@xxxxxxxxx says...
Carl Navarro <cnavarro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Almost 2 years to the date my current laptop is dying. Being
chea^h^h^h^h frugal, I'm serioulsy looking at an Acer Aspire with
Bluetooth, Wireless, Wired and 1G memory and 120G HD for $600.00.
I've been using IBM Thinkpads for years, and so far they've been the
best I've seen. Not as robust as the panasonics, but enough for most
people. You can usually find refurbs for reasonable prices and memory/
batteries/disk/etc are cheap enough.

It has Vista something equivalent to XP Media Center.
Then add the cost of installing XP back on it, vista is generally not
ready for prime time, and some of your programming apps probably won't
run on vista.

z!

Actually Dell is now letting people buy computers with XP instead of
Vista. The outcry was so loud that they had to do it.

Yes. What a dilemma. For $699 I can own a Dell with a special
screen, same specs as the Acer Aspire, and Win XP, with a 12 month on
site warranty.

I may have to suck it up and get that deal instead.

Carl


Any time you buy a computer you face the same kind of dilemmas - which
OS, when is a sale or a 'special offer' truly a special offer, do I want
the standard version of a preinstalled software or the 'deluxe.' It's
almost as bad as buy a new car.

True - usually just go for one with bare minimums on it but a good
mboard. Memory and hard drives are dirt cheap now.

For example, 2 months ago I priced maxing out my laptop to 2GB, it was a
bit over $350. I bought the upgrade a few weeks ago for $143 and now I
see it's down to $117.

.

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