Hey, I'm looking to purchase a laptop for college within the next few months, and I'm researching what would be the best buy, so I thought getting different opinions would be a good idea. I'll explain what I am looking for then list the laptops that I am currently interested in.
■Concerning the price range: I don't want to spend more than 1,000 ($)bucks. I'm looking in the ~800$ range, but I am lenient either way.
■I want the laptop to serve its purpose - for school. So decent battery life is a must, what good would it be if it did not work?
■Seeing as how I will be carrying it around school, it will probably take a few hits here and there, so a good warranty or sturdy laptop would be good.
■Concerning screen dimensions: I don't really mind, but I assume the 15" will be the way to go for this. Also, I don't really need HD for this.
■Concerning weight: I don't really mind carrying it around, but the lighter the better I guess.
■I'm leaning towards the Intel Core 2 Duo processors, but if one can convince me otherwise, then that would be alright too.
■I'm not a heavy gamer obsessed with graphics, but I do like to bust out the Counter-Strike or Warcraft every now and then. So it will need to be able to handle some light gaming (I don't mind turning down the visual effects).
■I will put music and pictures and such on this, so I say a minimum of 120 gigs with a DVD R/RW drive as well.
■Also, I will be taking advantage of the wireless internet, so it must have some easy to use wireless functionality.
■I'm not really interested with loading it up with a bunch of software, so a lot of pre-requisite stuff isn't a requirement for me.
Now, I have mainly just looked into Dell's laptops, and have found the Inspiron 1525 (http://www.dell.com/content/product...=dhs&cs=19&~oid=us~en~29~inspnnb_1525_anav2~~)
to suit my needs, however I have heard some not good things about Dell's laptops.
Please, any suggestions or comments will be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
■Concerning the price range: I don't want to spend more than 1,000 ($)bucks. I'm looking in the ~800$ range, but I am lenient either way.
■I want the laptop to serve its purpose - for school. So decent battery life is a must, what good would it be if it did not work?
■Seeing as how I will be carrying it around school, it will probably take a few hits here and there, so a good warranty or sturdy laptop would be good.
■Concerning screen dimensions: I don't really mind, but I assume the 15" will be the way to go for this. Also, I don't really need HD for this.
■Concerning weight: I don't really mind carrying it around, but the lighter the better I guess.
■I'm leaning towards the Intel Core 2 Duo processors, but if one can convince me otherwise, then that would be alright too.
■I'm not a heavy gamer obsessed with graphics, but I do like to bust out the Counter-Strike or Warcraft every now and then. So it will need to be able to handle some light gaming (I don't mind turning down the visual effects).
■I will put music and pictures and such on this, so I say a minimum of 120 gigs with a DVD R/RW drive as well.
■Also, I will be taking advantage of the wireless internet, so it must have some easy to use wireless functionality.
■I'm not really interested with loading it up with a bunch of software, so a lot of pre-requisite stuff isn't a requirement for me.
Now, I have mainly just looked into Dell's laptops, and have found the Inspiron 1525 (http://www.dell.com/content/product...=dhs&cs=19&~oid=us~en~29~inspnnb_1525_anav2~~)
to suit my needs, however I have heard some not good things about Dell's laptops.
Please, any suggestions or comments will be greatly appreciated. Thank you!