In The Market For A Laptop

[TheAntiSummit]

I have started looking around the internet for deals on laptop computers and I was wondering if anyone who sees this knew of anyplace I should check out. I have been looking at Dell and HP (I'm not interested in Macs) and have been hoping the ideal system would show up at Ubid.com. I am looking for a decent machine in the $1000 range, nothing elaborate but for some basic gaming needs , wireless internet, and word processing. If anyone knows of good sites with discounted, refurbished, or just plain cheap laptops, I would apreciate the info. Thanks.

 

[gariig]

ERrr, that's not going to happen. On board wireless doesn't occur until you get to mid to high range(looking at base 1200). If you want to play some descent games you are going to need a Radeon Mobile 9000 and you just got into the high end laptop.

Realistically, you are looking at scraping the bottom of the laptops with only $1000. If you landed some HOT deal with stackable coupons and insane rebates you might land a mid-range laptop at around the $1000 mark.

So, what we need to know is..what is the primary use for the laptop? If you want something to takes notes, do work processor, and surf the internet the low level laptops will work just fine. My girlfriend got a Dell 1100 for $1200 minus rebates and it works well for all of those purposes. If you want me to try a game on it I will as a test.

Gariig

 

[HellHound]

I have an IBM Thinkpad A30 series (top end of the A30 series...) with internal wireless. It is expensive and not that impressive all things considered. My desktop system is far superior to it, and is two years older (and cost about 2/3 of the price of the laptop when it was brand new 2 years ago).

 

[Macbeth]

I've got a Dell Insprion 1100, and it works great. The entire deal (Pentium 4, 3 hunderd some Mb RAM, 30 Gb hard drive, external floppy (just in case!), USB memory key) was just around $1000, with some rebates. It runs games fairly well, but the Integrated Intel Extreme Graphics is nothing to write home about. Wireless internet will have to be through an external card, but thats not too bad. The only downside is slightly large physical dimensions, as laptops go, but nothing horrible.