paysensmom
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jun 26, 2007
Motherboard on mine is toast. I mainly used it for pictures and research papers. What would you recommend? I would like it to be speedy, have a dvd drive, sd card slot and NOT have windows 8.
Budget? That's the biggest thing that will dictate responses.
My most recent is a Dell Inspiron 17R Special Edition, though I got my fiance an Acer not too long ago as well. (In both cases, a good dedicated graphics card was a big part of it.)
Recommended a refurb Inspiron 17R to my ex-SIL, who loves it.
Since you're looking for (presumably) Win7, shopping online and grabbing a refurb and/or new-old-stock model is almost certainly your way to go.
100% agree on the refurb. I would check Amazon.com or they come up on Woot.com a lot. Also I would recommend trying to get one with an i5 or i7 processor.
We also wanted a 4-core processer (seemed many, many were only 2).
As a general piece of advice, don't get too hung up on this, particularly when comparing AMD chips against Intel. The A8-4500, although four cores, is out-performed by any number of dual core processors, in particular all of the third-gen i5, and even most of the third-gen i3 chips.
At this price point, though (and for my home use only), I still think we got a fairly good deal. I am betting that here in Canada, we could not purchase a laptop with the high performance dual core processers for under $500.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009AF1DYI/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A2TC87EJKQMY9O
How about this one? It's much higher than i would like to spend, but hubby sent me the link.
this is off topic but does anyone have any info or refurbs I phones? you seem very wise on the computers so I thought I would ask! thanks