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<blockquote data-quote="Scoobydoo" data-source="post: 5403699" data-attributes="member: 564934">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&#039;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&quot;My current laptop is a 14&quot; 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 minuteIt depends on what you are going to use it for, but for a college student you&#039;re gonna want some decent cpu power and portablilityI haven&#039;t seen it mentioned yet, but IBM/Lenovo make one hell of a nice laptop at a decent priceIf I were in college I would get a 13-14&quot; Dell XPS or IBM Thinkpad along with a 22&quot; lcd to hook up to while not mobileBut, hey, I dont work at Best Buy in the Geek Squad so whattaiknow<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Scoobydoo, post: 5403699, member: 564934"] 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;) [/QUOTE]

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