Need a new laptop

Okay, so because of my drunkeness, I destroyed my Dell laptop. I'm looking to buy a new one - but I don't want to spend a bunch of money. Any recommendations?

I have a lenovo and aside from it weighing 1000 lbs, ive been happy with it. Had it over a year and I use it like 10 hours a day and its still pluggin along..

Do you need to have a PC? I'm in love with my (err Papi's ) macbook.
It did help that I had some IT friends trick it out for me with all the applications.

also to respond to Mama I have a macbook and it was the worst purchase I have ever made. I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate it. I'm apparently a PC only kind of girl.

I have a Dell laptop and it's great. They are also having a President's day sale: http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/24hr_presidents_day_deal?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs

If only the keyboard is broken, those are easy to replace.

I apparently knocked over a cup of soda and it sat in the puddle all night. It won't even power on. I'm thinking of getting a HP mini. Macs cost a freakin' fortune.

damn, sorry to hear that Carmen. I've done PC's and Macs. Many kinds through the years. even some freaking high end Mac's that cost my job thousands. They turned me out. I'm a ho for a mac now. The video ichat, the iphoto, the silly photo booth and widgets galore. and not a single virus ever!! Despite all the porn (HA! I kidd!) the remote control apps, the music, oy love it... it works really good for social activities.

I love my mac and it was freeeeeee for meeeeee!

Subject: Re: Need a new laptop

Anastasia Beaverhausen wrote: Okay, so because of my drunkeness, I destroyed my Dell laptop. I'm looking to buy a new one - but I don't want to spend a bunch of money. Any recommendations?

I'd stay with the drunkeness. Cheaper and more satisfying. Probably more interesting people to talk to.

What do you use it for and what's most important to you?

Portability?
Price?
Power?

Do you have a strong OS preference?

Anastasia Beaverhausen wrote: I apparently knocked over a cup of soda and it sat in the puddle all night. It won't even power on. I'm thinking of getting a HP mini. Macs cost a freakin' fortune.

If you want a netbook, I'd say get the Asus: http://www.amazon.com/10-Inch-Netbook-Processor-E-Storage-Battery/dp/B001GIPSAC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=pc&qid=1234813853&sr=1-1

Mougar wrote: [quote=Anastasia Beaverhausen]I apparently knocked over a cup of soda and it sat in the puddle all night. It won't even power on. I'm thinking of getting a HP mini. Macs cost a freakin' fortune.

If you want a netbook, I'd say get the Asus: http://www.amazon.com/10-Inch-Netbook-Processor-E-Storage-Battery/dp/B001GIPSAC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=pc&qid=1234813853&sr=1-1
What about the Dell Mini 9 or the new Samsung NC10?

This Samsung feature may be of particular interest to the Beave:

Another slightly usual feature of the keyboard is that it's covered with an antibacterial layer. Its coating of ionic silver particles will apparently prevent bacteria living and breeding on the keyboard, effectively eliminating 99.9 per cent of all know germs within 24 hours, according to Samsung.

Carnivore wrote: [quote=Mougar][quote=Anastasia Beaverhausen]I apparently knocked over a cup of soda and it sat in the puddle all night. It won't even power on. I'm thinking of getting a HP mini. Macs cost a freakin' fortune.

If you want a netbook, I'd say get the Asus: http://www.amazon.com/10-Inch-Netbook-Processor-E-Storage-Battery/dp/B001GIPSAC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=pc&qid=1234813853&sr=1-1
What about the Dell Mini 9 or the new Samsung NC10?

This Samsung feature may be of particular interest to the Beave:

Another slightly usual feature of the keyboard is that it's covered with an antibacterial layer. Its coating of ionic silver particles will apparently prevent bacteria living and breeding on the keyboard, effectively eliminating 99.9 per cent of all know germs within 24 hours, according to Samsung.

They're all fine, but I say the Asus because it has Windows and a full size (160GB) hard drive. The Acer Aspire is also basically the same thing. The dell you linked to is the sale one with linux only and has a very small solid state drive. The Samsung is good too but runs about $100 more than the Asus.

The Acer is supposed to have terrible battery life. The Samsung has Windows and a 160GB HD, although I'm thinking that if you're going netbook, an SSD (even a lower-capacity one) makes more sense, especially since you can put so much crap on a USB jumpdrive now that you don't have to keep all your files on the main SSD. The Samsung keyboard is also supposed to be much larger and easier to use than the mini keyboard on the Asus (not to mention the anti-bacterial properties), and it outperformed the Asus on some of the benchmark tests in the article I linked to above.

EDIT: Personally I'm a Mac guy, but I've been thinking about a netbook and I'm not crazy about the Macbook Air. After seeing an awesome Hackintosh that someone I know made out of a Mini 9, I've been looking into these things over the past few days.

The three-cell Acer probably does have terrible battery life, I was thinking of the 6-cell which should have the same battery life as the Asus and Samsung 6-cells. The Samsung appears to have the best keyboard, but I've used one of the smaller Asus's with my big hands and been fine.

I personally wouldn't need the 160GB HD either since I use a NAS, but it sounds like this would be beave's primary computer and she probably doesn't have external storage.

Um...nerds? Just pick one for me. Christ.

Good points. I don't think a netbook makes much sense as someone's primary computer though, unless it's basically just going to be used for Internet browsing. If this is a desktop replacement laptop, she probably wants a little more power than a netbook can provide.

Question - do you really need a laptop? If you need one, great, but most people with 'em don't need the portability and you'll be paying more for something with less horsepower, less storage space, higher chance of being damaged or stolen and less likely to be easily repaired...

While I totally agree, I don't have the space for a desktop.

i know far too much about killing a laptop and needing another: this happened friday night.

i bought the low end macbook and i LOVE it (sorry carmen). seriously, i would have sex with this thing if i could. LOVE IT.

speaking of, if anyone cars to share programs like, say, photoshop, n design, etc., i'm accepting software donations

I guess I hate the mac for a few reasons:
1) SUPER overpriced. For $1400, I expected it to run reasonably quickly (especially considering I dont really DO anything with it.) It doesn't. Its slow as shit.
2) You can't do anything PC business related with it. I've tried every dualboot and every MS office freeware thing I can get my hands on and NOTHING works well enough to actually mimic a PC. I cannot run windows on it because it is too slow. The mac versions of MS office applications suck and eat a ton of memory.
3) I really honestly can't figure out how to do anything on it. As someone once told me "think dumber...think of what someone who is computer retarded would do, then do that. Thats how macs are designed." This has helped, but being reared as a PC person (not just MS either, I used redhat and fedora for 3 years for business) I just can't adapt.


The built in camera is fun, but lots of PCs have those now and will give you way more bang for the buck.

mine was $999 and it's pretty zippy.

but. they have exceptional resale value, carmen, so if you hate it sell it and get yerself a pc.

I agree with Carmen. For what I use my computer for, I can't justify dropping 2K on a Mac. Plus I'm super cheap.

hello? didn't spend 2k

But I know me. I'll start adding shit, etc.

i've never paid any $ for shit. what shit?

My shit is kinda special.

No room? Pffft - lookie at my wife's cramped desk and the little 'puter I put together for her (middle desk cubby on the right).

Um...yeah. I don't even have room for that.

i still don't understand what shit you need.