Buying a laptop... What should I do? (was forum=28)Follow

Um, you would need to post the specs to get a decent answer.

I'm currently running on a Compaq Presario that I've been using for the last five years (no other computers). Never really had a serious problem with it, everything runs smoothly. The next generation of games will make it look like a dinosaur, but I'm guessing I still have a year or two on this thing before I'll need to upgrade.

Ask your self what you wanna do with your laptop.

Gameing (hardcore) - $1200+ is a good rule of thumb on those. These are mostly for people who game hardcore and dont own a desktop. These are also good because they wont go out of date as fast as a cheaper laptop.

Gameing (normal) - $800-$1200 is an average price of a moderate gaming laptop. This will perform ok on most games and do all graphic things with ease still. This is probably your best bet for something in the All-N-Wonder Laptop.

Average laptop (walmart woot) $400-800 is the price of the laptops at walmart. These babies are crap pretty much. They are the low end of the current wave of hardware trends. Only goof for surfing the intrawebz and watching movies.

All these prices are general. There are exceptions to all this.

As for brand wise:

Dell: Dell is pretty good. They can make some decent stuff but they have their bad points. Customer service kinda sucks at times and most of their laptops are notorious for sucky abttery life and batteries/hard drives falling out. Also the fans on the laptops dont last very long.

Gateway: Not so sure on the laptop department. I have a few friends with them and they enjoy them ok. not as good as dell but none of the falling out peices. Customer service from my point of view is better then dells.

Compaq /HP: Just say no. These are the crap shoot of computers. These thigns suck. Doesnt matter how much money you shove in them HP/Compaq blows hard.

Alienware: Havent owned one but I have seen them in action and dealt with customer service. In general they are the better of Gateway and Compaw/HP. They rank up their with Dell.


My advise to you is to not get a laptop. You can spend way less money or the same on a desktop and get way more power.

Thanks for the decent replies. So... HP/Compaq a definite no? Hmm.. I was actually planning on going for the Compaq too... And no on Alienware? Crap. All right, I'll check out widowpc, see how it goes price wise. (I really don't want to go over 1600 dollars... But, there may be an exception I guess. 1000-1200 is like, perfect.)

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Scroll up a few posts. No, not the one by the guy who calls it "gameing."

i have a presario v2000 and it runs WoW fine.


no problems with it and its fairly light and has some great features. and i payed like 600 bucks for it at walmart.

i am computer savvy, i movedd to l.a. and needed a notebook this one just so happens to play wow fine, just untill i get my desktop out here in a few months.

came with 1 gig of ram , ati radeon mobile, amd 1.5 ghz (i think)

lots of memory card readers, and its widescreen.