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Kalimirella 
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 Posted: 27 May 2010 at 1:28pm |
Hmm I've got an Acer but its an older model, 2-3years old and still going strong. Maybe I just got lucky but was nice and cheap (only $800 new) and obviously fairly good quality as I've never had any issues with it and I used to be quite a gamer (World of Warcraft anyone  ) so its seen fairly hard use. Maybe try one they aren't as bad as some seem to be saying.
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flakesitchyfeet
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Posted: 27 May 2010 at 4:04pm |
Okay, so people in the know, if you could choose between
Option One
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or Option Three
What would it be?
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MrsH23
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Posted: 27 May 2010 at 4:38pm |
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Personally I would go with option 2, more RAM and bigger hard drive.
ETA -It also has the home premium version of windows 7 instead of the starter version.
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High9
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Posted: 27 May 2010 at 5:30pm |
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One or two. I have an HP Mini, I got it on sale for $999, gutted because it's only 60gb and all the others were 8gb mem, a few weeks later they bought out the ones with more memory!
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Posted: 27 May 2010 at 7:55pm |
 MrsH23 wrote:
My DH is into the IT stuff, he says that Dell is rubbish because they use cheap parts, hence the cheap price. He doesn't recommend an Acer either I don't think. He's not home for me to check what he recommends but we have an HP which he likes. I know to avoid an AMD processor, Intel is definitely superior and at minimum a dual core (or quad core is faster).
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Same here Dell is a piece or s**t you get what you pay for.
Dh has only ever had toshiba and it has lasted really well. And get a extended warranty just in case if something does go wrong .
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flakesitchyfeet
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Posted: 27 May 2010 at 8:16pm |
Extended warranties are a waste of $$ IMHO This is the second Toshiba in 3 years. Its under warranty, but I'm not sure they're going to cover it. We'll see  They're nice, but not as wow as they're made out to be. For me, anyway.
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Posted: 28 May 2010 at 7:53am |
nkap9 wrote:
HP isn't that better either TBH. If you leave the laptops charging all the time it actually ruins the battery and they need to be constantly charged. Happened to 1 of my laptops and 2 of my friends as well. But their computers are better.
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Had both of these problems with our HP... highly recommend taking the battery out if you are not using it remotely!
We have a Dell and so far so good, for what we wanted in our price range a couple of our IT friends actually recommended Dell.... if we had more money we would have gone Mac but unfortuately we are on a tight budget...
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Is Dell that bad?
