Looking 2 purchase laptop...

[linabunnie]

Good morning! So, I have never had my very own laptop b4.. I am very excited 2 be getting 1 for Mothers Day! I'm hoping 2 find 1 of good quality but not 2 expensive. I am open to any suggestions. Thanks 

[kapeh12]

Like buying any major purchase, first think about what you intend to use your laptop for - if it's mostly surfing the net and email, you may want to consider getting a netbook.  Reason, they are smaller and cheaper, and basically designed to be light-weight laptops.

If you have plans to do business or club stuff - and need things like a word processor or excel - then consider the laptop, but you may not need one of those suped-up versions.  For those, do some comparison shopping online to find a brand that you'd feel comfortable with.

If you have plans to do video or picture editing or gaming - you'll want to look for how much RAM the laptop has.  The more RAM, the better processing power the computer will have.

Other than that, consider how much space the laptop has (hard drive Gigs - or Terabyte) - if you are planning to download lots of videos or have lots of pictures, you'll want to get a laptop with more space.  An alternative to make this cheaper is to consider getting a cheaper laptop with less space, and buy a separate external hard drive to extra space if this is something you need.

As far as brands, I tend to prefer Dell - that brand has always been very stable for my needs.  HP is another quality brand I'd recommend.  Also several of my friends own Sony Vio's and they are happy with those.

Good luck on your shopping!

[debrabassler]

hi!
i like acer's they are  good and easy

[linabunnie]

hi!
i like acer's they are  good and easy

I have seen some resonable prices on Acer... But how's the quality?

[ejholt]

I bought a HP laptop little over a year ago and I have never had a problem with it.  I have my printer hooked up to it and it works wonderfully.  I hope you find one that you will get good service.  I bought mine at Walmart.

[Linda67]

I have a desktop and an HP Netbook.  I like my Netbook if I'm not going to be doing a lot of typing because the keyboard is obviously very small it has a 10 inch screen.  It also only has about 3 hours of battery life and I've heard that the Acers have closer to 5 hours.  I'm not sure if that's really true maybe someone here knows.