cheap laptops

two slow · Post by **two slow** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 4:50 am

Newegg sent me a flyer with a 14" gateway laptop in it. This got me thinking. This would be a good gift for my youngest daughters B-day in a few months.
What do you think of this?

I haven't looked at dell for a long time but I will soon to see if the have something comparable. I would like to get some kind of accident warranty with it too.

ZYFER · Post by **ZYFER** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:22 pm

Dunno what to think, no info on what you are talking about

ZYFER · Post by **ZYFER** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:43 pm

Guessing this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6834101180

Only laptop I can find on there that fits what you mentioned

Not so bad of a price. For many that is more of a laptop than they would ever need. As long as your daughter isn't some kind of hardcore gamer that is.

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 6:55 am

Cheap is more than what most people I know need. Especially if they spend all day on Facebook.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 9:15 am

Don't be fooled by "Dual Processor". That's a Pentium processor not a Core 2 Duo. 6 year old technology. You get what you pay for.

Take a look at this for $80 more: http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/ ... reat_deals

Bigger screen, Core 2 Duo processor and 3Gb of RAM which is the real world minimum for Vista.

Everything is flash based now and requires more CPU than you may think. I see lots of Pentium 4 systems come across my bench that lag pretty bad on flash-intensive web sites.

two slow · Post by **two slow** » Sat May 02, 2009 11:08 am

FlyingPenguin wrote:Don't be fooled by "Dual Processor". That's a Pentium processor not a Core 2 Duo. 6 year old technology. You get what you pay for.

Take a look at this for $80 more: http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/ ... reat_deals

Bigger screen, Core 2 Duo processor and 3Gb of RAM which is the real world minimum for Vista.

Everything is flash based now and requires more CPU than you may think. I see lots of Pentium 4 systems come across my bench that lag pretty bad on flash-intensive web sites.

Thanks FP. That is a better deal.

two slow · Post by **two slow** » Sat May 02, 2009 11:11 am

ZYFER wrote:Guessing this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6834101180

Only laptop I can find on there that fits what you mentioned

Not so bad of a price. For many that is more of a laptop than they would ever need. As long as your daughter isn't some kind of hardcore gamer that is.

That is the one, I missed the sale price though. It was 399 with free shipping.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sat May 02, 2009 12:41 pm

That Dell Inspiron 15 I linked to is $449 now: http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/ ... reat_deals