Have a question about laptops

ASUS

SSDs are not too expensive. I would have used the dead hard disk as an excuse to upgrade to one of those, and they provide a significant speed improvement. My first encounter with a SSD in a laptop was two years ago... and seeing a machine boot Windows Server 2012 R2, from the PC maker's logo, to the control-alt-delete prompt in four seconds.

was_butnotnow wrote:
Our old ASUS laptop hard drive died last week. (Actually I dropped it) Went to Walmart and got a HP laptop (HP Black Licorice 15.6" 15-F387WM Laptop PC) with touchscreen for $329. I set it all up. Works great and at the right price. And do like Win 10. Also had installed Advanced System Care and Avast and Malwarebytes. And Acronis for backup on my Dell XPS 8300 desktop (which I just upgraded to Win 10 a while back) so put them on the new laptop. Been doing this for a long time and these are the programs I like. Also Use Open Office and Mozilla Thunderbird for email since I have my blogs on a private server.
After I upgraded my desktop to Win 10 and Advanced System Care went from boot time of over 5-10 min to about 1 min.

If your hard drive died, why didn't you simply replace the hard drive instead of buying a new computer? It would have cost a lot less than $329. You could have even upgraded to an ssd instead of an hdd and gotten a decent performance boost and still spent less than your new machine cost.

We spent last January in a South Carolina campground that had pretty decent wifi. I used my Acer Chromebook almost exclusively while we were there. No problems at all. It's fast and has great battery life. I am not a power user, mostly email, web surfing and Facebook. I had a Windows laptop with me, too, but rarely used it..

Our old ASUS laptop hard drive died last week. (Actually I dropped it) Went to Walmart and got a HP laptop (HP Black Licorice 15.6" 15-F387WM Laptop PC) with touchscreen for $329. I set it all up. Works great and at the right price. And do like Win 10. Also had installed Advanced System Care and Avast and Malwarebytes. And Acronis for backup on my Dell XPS 8300 desktop (which I just upgraded to Win 10 a while back) so put them on the new laptop. Been doing this for a long time and these are the programs I like. Also Use Open Office and Mozilla Thunderbird for email since I have my blogs on a private server.
After I upgraded my desktop to Win 10 and Advanced System Care went from boot time of over 5-10 min to about 1 min.

Laptop: Old term for a computer that could be held on your lap without injury
Notebook: New term for what used to be called a laptop:These computer generate a lot of heat and if you hold them on your lap, without first putting on asbestos trousers. You can get a very nasty burn, several people have, hence the name change. The trouser comment is a joke,

Netbook: Small notebook, generally a smaller screen, less memory et-al.

Chrome book. RUns the Google Chrome operating system instead of Windows

Thinkpad: Specific brand of Notebook/Lapto computers.


Now the operating Windows a,b,c,d 10

Windows 10 is the currently supported version of Windows, Microsoft is illegally dropping support for older versions. So go with 10 if you need windowsw.

If all you need is Internet access, Reading and replying to E-mail, Forum posts, and Researching which Widget to buy..; Chrome books are designed for that and cost less.

I recommend an alternate "Office" application.. Such as Open Office, over the high priced Microsoft product if you go with a windows box.

I also recommend Web Mail over client (Outlook or outlook express) mail For one thing you can access on any computer device, including your smart phone, and it's always synced, for another most web mail providers do a fairly good job of blocking malware before you see it.. (I tried once, got to about the 10th "Are you really really really sure you want to do this" prompt and gave up).

Yeah, if the OP can swing $300 he will do just fine for what he wants. I have a very high end laptop plus a $200 Dell tablet. I'm still amazed at how much the tablet can do--and it can do everything the OP wants.

Thanks avery one i am still looking . I still can't make up my mind. But checking on every thing you guys suggested .

If you have no special applications, buy HP, Acer, Dell, etc.

If you're going to trade every 2-3 years, buy something in the $300 range - it will do everything you want.

We're going to replace DW's laptop but she keeps her machine for a long time and is a bit of a power user. We're looking at a Dell Inspiron 7000: 1TB HD, 8GB ram, W10, ac wifi, 15.4" screen, 6th gen i5 processor, numeric keypad, etc. $799 Oh, NON-touch.

Nextbook tablet at Wamart for $129.99:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Nextbook-Flexx-10.1-2-in-1-Tablet-2-32GB-Intel-Quad-Core-Windows-10/46664255

Edit: Price dropped to $99.98