Your reccomendations for a laptop, you have any?

Well I dont know what I am doing, I said so, you can sit here and make me feel more stupid which is fine, but its not going to help me any.

Money isnt the issue here but I will hire someone to help me elsewhere, I think thats my best bet,

Arent there geek helpers you can pay?

I'm not trying to make you feel stupid. You asked sensible questions. And the one you found on amazon was a thinkpad... You just happened to have the bad luck to pick the one thinkpad line that Lenovo dropped the ball on. No way you could have known that.

park it in the garage and drive it a few miles a week?

just another of my unbelievably helpful tips.
(emphasis on the unbelievable... )

Thats okay, this was a bad idea to ask

I just cant drive to pick it up for myself and I need some help to write what my husband needs to know (so he will make a better purchase) or what I need to know.

I just ran with your reccomendation, it seemed to have higher reviews

I would like to purchase something tonight if doing so online is all, if not I have to hand something to my husband so he can pick it up for me, thats all.

You seem to have a preference for widescreens, and you seem to prefer amazon over ebay... have you looked at Asus?

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_p...escreen&ie=UTF8&qid=1425348591&rnid=562215011

There are some Asus laptops with Windows 7 and widescreen. Asus is generally reliable hardware. And the screens are usually brighter than most thinkpads.

Sorry Lynx, Im just irritable, not feeling up to the task, a bit rushed, and just fustrated at trying to make an educated decision on one of these things.

No I hadnt, thnk you. Largeness of screen is good I have bad eyesight, brightness is not so important though. I'll look at these then,

Although, may I ask you, if there is a specific reason these have no ratings and the other had so many?

I cant help but to ask that sometimes

Thanks,

I... have no idea about the ratings. With that page of Asus I have strayed into unfamiliar ground, as I only have one Asus laptop and I don't go for widescreens in general. The Asus I have is a great little machine, the best in my current lineup, and Asus in general enjoys a good reputation for reliability. But I've never tried any of those specific Asus laptops. I threw it out based on your stated preferences and based on the fact that Asus is a reliable brand with laptops that are a bit better looking than Thinkpads, but I know little about those specific laptops.

Thanks Lynx I apreciate your help and honesty about that with me here.

God bless you

I have said laptop, its mine. my husbands laptop crashed a couple months ago... So he bought me one as my birthday present. Best. GIFT. EVER!

if i can help it i will never buy another product from Dell again, ever.
lots of bad experience with desktops. my son's laptop is a Dell (i didn't have any input in that) and it's been fritzy too.


i got a "desktop-replacement" laptop a couple years ago. it came down to HP vs. Lenovo for me; from what i read and experienced they are two top brands. i needed a lot of processing power and was looking for durability and a full keyboard/numberpad. wanted to stay away from Mac's because some softwares i have to use have compatibility problems.

i got an HP, a pretty expensive one; it had all i needed and was a little cheaper and i think a little better build quality for a similar Lenovo. i built what i wanted through HP's website rather than get an off-the-shelf model. i called to ask some questions and a salesman offered me a very large discount if i would be willing to buy it over the phone - i ended up saving well over a thousand bucks! this is an high-end model tho, that was necessary for some things i had to do for work, and i think they were willing to make price cuts to sell their top-of-the-line stuff. depending on what you need to do with a laptop, you don't need to spend anywhere near what i did to get every capable machine.



the only complaint i have is that the battery is only good for about 2-3 hours when i'm making a lot of use of it, but i expected that.

HP can be good if you get the right one. The HP models at Walmart are... not the right one. There's a reason they are at Walmart, that's all I'll say. >.>

I know they're expensive but I've had my Macbook pro since 08. Still going strong.

Mac is actually pretty good - for normal people who have a lot of money. For getting online, checking facebook, checking the forum, checking email, watching a youtube video - you know, all the stuff normal people do with computers - mac is good. And it's pretty reliable. Macs don't break down nearly as often as HP, Acer and the other junk Walmart has.

On the downside Macs are limited in capabilities for power users. If you want a program that does X job, you are more likely to find the perfect program for your needs with a PC than with a Mac. Normal people don't have to worry about this, but someone who is using a computer for a high-end work computer might. And Macs are inordinately expensive.

Having said that... when a missionary goes out to a country without good tech support, I'm always glad when he's carrying along a Mac. If God called me to go to a place where I couldn't get Ebay or amazon.com delivery, I might want a Mac too. Or a Thinkpad. Either is a good reliable choice.

Thanks posthuman, now my daughters computer was a HP, but ended up getting her a dell, I had good luck with those, except once with the hard drive which seemed more like a fluke.

Thanks for giving something more to consider,

God bless you

I have a MacBook Pro. I've had it for 4 years now and it works well
I used to have a Dell laptop and it only lasted a year and a half before it broke down.

I had my last dell for 10 years too

Praying that God will lead you to the right pick and good on your eyes and that you and your husband will be satisfied with and that will serve you well for a long time... small things matter to Him if they matter to us... no stress <3

i've had my HP for about 3 years now..

Did I read that right─77 replied in 4 hours??

I recommend Asus, Lenovo, Toshiba, and Dell above other brands (except Apple).

HP has a bad reputation in the laptop sector (consequently, Compaq isn't so great either), and Fujitsu's are poor in build quality.

Acer and Gateway are just whatever. Their entry level laptops aren't good, but they're not completely awful either.

I concur with all of that... with one qualifier. There are two different breeds of Toshiba. The real Toshibas are good. The Toshibas that Best Buy and Walmart carry are worse than HP's bargain basement offerings. It's like they are made by a different company and they slapped the Toshiba name on them. For that matter, maybe that's what happened - Toshiba may have licensed a cheap company to use their name. All I know for sure is there are two different, and widely disparate quality levels for Toshiba laptops.

Now a good Toshiba Tecra, I could use one of them right now in a project I'm running...

Oh, that reminds me. Any laptop you get for a really low price on Black Friday is going to be a lemon. There's a reason they are selling them so cheap. I can't count how many friends have asked me to fix computers they got on Black Friday.