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meadowlands   12-30-2006 at 12:53:10 AM

I was thinking of selling my old Inspiron 8500 notebook (going for about $300 on ebay) and buying a new one. My warranty ran out in may and if it breaks I am screwed. Good idea?

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Bronze Laptops badge lostandwandering   12-30-2006 at 02:30:00 AM
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Seeing as the 8500 is way outdated, yes I believe it would be a good idea. Your price seems about right for the age of that notebook.

Any ideas on what you want to get and what it would be used for?

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meadowlands   12-30-2006 at 04:50:35 AM
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Probably a new dell laptop since this one served me well. I priced out a core 2 duo, 256 meg ati card. 1 gig ram, 80gb hdd etc for around 1k with a 3 year warranty.

I looked at others too but dell usually has decent deals. Anything you can recommend besides dell? I generally use my laptop for movies, gaming and general stuff like word, excel etc. Nothing too crazy :) Thanks!

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Bronze Laptops badge lostandwandering   12-30-2006 at 05:05:00 PM
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HP and Toshiba are good choices as well, though I have more experience with Dell. I would recommend the DV9000 series from HP. Pricing is about the same as the Dell and you can choose between AMD and Intel processors.

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craxx123   10-29-2007 at 01:09:40 AM
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The most important part of your purchase will be an extended warranty. If you plan on keeping the laptop longer than a year, most laptop warranty periods, I would highly recommend spending the money. Dell's are great machines, but have issues with motherboards failing, as do others.

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