Me neither, I am guessing his is a typical uninformed response.
Buying a laptop is just as hit or miss as buying any other electronic component. Just cause it is not a name brand doesn't mean it isnt a good product. Most companies use the same hardware anyway, it is just rebadged. You can see this in the lcd threads here when people say Olevia, Visio, Westinghouse, etc. **** because they are sold at Walmart. Those are some of the same people that buy Bose speakers and Monster cable to go with their name brand lcd.
I had a Compaq r4000 laptop for a few years and just sold it a few months ago. The thing worked flawlessly, but it was a brick and not very portable at about 6 pounds and 15.4"
My current laptop is a 14" Dell P3 1ghz that gets 7 hours hours per charge and I cant bring myself to sell it for anything less than $300 because that is what it is worth to ME. It will do all the web browsing and word processing anyone needs forever on a single charge, but of course it wont play games very well or compute a 1M of Superpi in under 1 minute
It depends on what you are going to use it for, but for a college student you're gonna want some decent cpu power and portablility
I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but IBM/Lenovo make one hell of a nice laptop at a decent price
If I were in college I would get a 13-14" Dell XPS or IBM Thinkpad along with a 22" lcd to hook up to while not mobile
But, hey, I dont work at Best Buy in the Geek Squad so whattaiknow
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