computer buying questions

Whatever you do, do not buy a Dell!

Bought a Gateway for the g/f a while ago and it has been awesome, which they are made by acer btw....

becareful of craigslist

Id go for the Dell (1st) but the gateway seems to have cards readers etc. might be better for school if its only got min on it.

IIRC, Gateway was bought out by Acer.

[link to tulsa.craigslist.org]

or toshiba [link to tulsa.craigslist.org]

Avoid Craigslist.

please help glp
which one is better

gateway is a better specification

what about a sony vaio ?

Of those two choices....the second one is the much better choice.
The Dell's are good....but that one doesn't have enough power (memory/cpu)to run Win7 well.

Go with the dual core Gateway.

Overpriced for what it is.

Go with gateway

The Gateway has the best specs of what you listed. Offer $100.

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Here's a good deal too on your same local CL...better than the Gateway deal.

[link to tulsa.craigslist.org]


$175

Last Edited by Useless Cookie Eater on 12/30/2012 04:13 PM

Try to find Lenovo, LG or Samsung laptops. Good quality for a reasonable price!

Non consumer serviceable drive and memory areas (no doors)....so you have to void warranties to upgrade.

Stay clear of them.

Last Edited by Useless Cookie Eater on 12/30/2012 04:19 PM

Never had any problems with any of those brands. My new Samsung kicks ass and it was cheap.

Try the local GoodWill store, the one in my town has a computer store and excellent values on used equipment. I think the have a return/warranty policy also.

They reload everything to as new on the system.

I think most are around 100/125 dollars.

Toshiba makes the best laptops. I have owned many of them over the years. Sold some but still have 4 left and all of them still work perfectly.

There is no comparison, the Gateway is by far superior. faster processor, better video, way more ram, Win7 Professional, guy said it's a clean install so it should run well for a while without much maintenance. Hell, *I* want that gateway laptop, it's a steal at that price.

The dell should probably be about $50-$75 and it's still much older tech and much slower.

what about this one ? [link to tulsa.craigslist.org]

what is the difference between that and this one ?
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Memory...drive size....CPU cores and CPU speed.
Better bang for the buck without question with the Dell.

Last Edited by Useless Cookie Eater on 12/30/2012 07:05 PM

+1

anyone have any advice on this
one


so far everyone says gateway

what about this sony vaio?

[link to tulsa.craigslist.org]


heres a new one its an hp
what do u think ?

Not even close to the specs of the Dell.

Not too bad for $100....but speed of the dual core CPU is not mentioned.