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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Beezy on December 21, 2009, 08:25:40 PM

Title: Need help finding a decent laptop for $500 or less
Post by: Beezy on December 21, 2009, 08:25:40 PM

It's for my brother and my mother isn't willing to spend more than that. He's not a big PC gamer, only plays some old and free games. So far I found this:

http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/special-offers.workflow:find-config?category-id=653343E0DE54435882FABC3CE1BC569A&filter=Starting%20at%20Price_0,&show-page=2

It's the very first one. Comes up to $450 after adding a coupon code. What do you guys think?

Title: Re: Need help finding a decent laptop for $500 or less
Post by: Beezy on December 21, 2009, 08:46:14 PM

 :gloomy

Title: Re: Need help finding a decent laptop for $500 or less
Post by: Himu on December 21, 2009, 08:47:52 PM

Hp is pretty damn swank for notebooks, bro.

http://www.amazon.com/Pavilion-DV2-1110US-12-1-Inch-Entertainment-Laptop/dp/B002BH4O70/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1261446570&sr=8-5

Title: Re: Need help finding a decent laptop for $500 or less
Post by: Beezy on December 21, 2009, 08:56:53 PM

I know, I own one. But I can't find one better than the Lenovo I posted for $500 or less. Is the graphics card in that one better than the Lenovo's?

Also, I'd prefer if it had Windows 7.

Title: Re: Need help finding a decent laptop for $500 or less
Post by: Beezy on December 21, 2009, 09:03:37 PM

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/HP+-+Pavilion+Laptop+with+Intel%26%23174%3B+Pentium%26%23174%3B+Processor+-+Espresso+Black/9663058.p?id=1218140710767&skuId=9663058

How is this compared to the lenovo?

Title: Re: Need help finding a decent laptop for $500 or less
Post by: Himu on December 21, 2009, 10:07:18 PM

I don't know shit about this graphics media accelerator shit mayne.

But the HP has hdmi support.

Title: Re: Need help finding a decent laptop for $500 or less
Post by: Akala on December 21, 2009, 10:24:34 PM

if you don't really care about a graphics card, most everything you get around $500 (online) will be decent. odds are, even if it's kinda crap, the recipient will never know.

Title: Re: Need help finding a decent laptop for $500 or less
Post by: duckman2000 on December 21, 2009, 10:33:27 PM

As soon as you drop dedicated GPU from the list of priorities, you can get some pretty sweet systems at that price point.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834200027

Title: Re: Need help finding a decent laptop for $500 or less
Post by: Tauntaun on December 21, 2009, 10:35:40 PM

Y'all wiff da knowledge best be droooooppin dat on my boy beezy AIGHT?!?!?? /hot 97 dj

 :interracial

Title: Re: Need help finding a decent laptop for $500 or less
Post by: Beezy on December 22, 2009, 02:00:36 AM

Quote from: Akala on December 21, 2009, 10:24:34 PM

if you don't really care about a graphics card, most everything you get around $500 (online) will be decent. odds are, even if it's kinda crap, the recipient will never know.

Quote from: duckman2000 on December 21, 2009, 10:33:27 PM

As soon as you drop dedicated GPU from the list of priorities, you can get some pretty sweet systems at that price point.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834200027

Still not sure what to get, but thanks. Probably gonna  check out some stores tomorrow so that we won't have to wait for it to get shipped.