I need to buy a new laptop

[windsor88]

Thats what I got with 17" screen 

I got mine when it first came out and it was over 2000.  Now they can be had for half that.

[Tombo]

With dual/quad core systems and plenty of ddr3 ++ ram you will have no trouble with vista, believe me. oh and dx10 helps run alot of things faster.

[SAMSON123]

I want Windows XP... none of that Vista crap.

I usually buy from Dell.com, but all their stuff is Vista now.

Any advice?  I want a fast, tough laptop with a 17 inch screen at least.
$2000 or so?

Looking for a good place to buy them from.

thanks!

JUST INSTALL WINDOWS XP, BUMP UP YOUR MEMORY AND YOU CAN SAVE YOURSELF THE MONEY...

THAT IS UNLESS YOU JUST WANT TO BUY A NEW COMPUTER...PLACES LIKE CYBERPOWER http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/r05/ri05.asp  LET YOU BUILD YOUR COMPUTER TO YOUR OWN SPECIFICATIONS AND ADD THE OPERATING SYSTEM OF YOUR CHOICE

[Purple Aki]

JUST INSTALL WINDOWS XP, BUMP UP YOUR MEMORY AND YOU CAN SAVE YOURSELF THE MONEY...

THAT IS UNLESS YOU JUST WANT TO BUY A NEW COMPUTER...PLACES LIKE CYBERPOWER http://www..com/r05/ri05.asp  LET YOU BUILD YOUR COMPUTER TO YOUR OWN SPECIFICATIONS AND ADD THE OPERATING SYSTEM OF YOUR CHOICE

Their caps lock keys tends to stick, apparently.

[evandatp]

I want Windows XP... none of that Vista crap.

I usually buy from Dell.com, but all their stuff is Vista now.

Any advice?  I want a fast, tough laptop with a 17 inch screen at least.
$2000 or so?

Looking for a good place to buy them from.

thanks!

What do you need to run in XP?

[bigdumbbell]

toshiba or mac

[240 is Back]

i'll check out the toshiba, thanks.

My wife uses Vista, and it's horrible.  I want to avoid that as long as possible.

I use a desktop.  I would get a TON more work done if I could bring the laptop around the house while watching spongebob and racing cars all day.

[chainsaw]

I have a fujitsu I got from

www.frys.com

It is great.  Got XP with it.

Vista sucks.

240 you can get one built as well.

[SAMSON123]

Their caps lock keys tends to stick, apparently.

APPARENTLY...

[Bluto]

i must buy a new laptop so what do i do i log on to a site about BODYBUILDING

of course!!!

that make sense!!

[Figo]

i must buy a new laptop so what do i do i log on to a site about BODYBUILDING

of course!!!

that make sense!!

This is Getbig... not just a bbing site.

[Benny B]

Toshiba Satellite.Best laptop I ever used. It has a real size keyboard and a huge 17 inch screen.

Here is your answer...

[Brutal_1]

I've got a friend who keeps urging me to get the HP dv6700t


And he's Asian, so you know he knows what he's talking about 

[Moosejay]

I want Windows XP... none of that Vista crap.

I usually buy from Dell.com, but all their stuff is Vista now.

Any advice?  I want a fast, tough laptop with a 17 inch screen at least.
$2000 or so?

Looking for a good place to buy them from.

thanks!

You know they make these things so they are obsolete in a year or two and then you gotta upgrade

I'd say 1500-2000 for a good one

[triple_pickle]

I've got a friend who keeps urging me to get the HP dv6700t

hp is shit, i have a two-year old hp desktop and the cd/dvd drive started malfunctioning six months after i bought it, i also have a one-year old hp pavillon laptop and the cd/dvd drive started malfunctioning three months after i bought it, then the screen went blank.  it turned out the motherboard died.  i will never but an hp computer again.  (although the hp service was superb)

240, you can get a good laptop for under $1,000, i paid $1,400 for mine last year (2 gb ram, vista business, 256 mb video card, etc), now you can buy a laptop with better specs for half that price.  look for "back to school" specials.

[Bull Terrier!]

No thongs and dreamtan??

Down with this thread FFS

[Benny B]

As others have said, there is no need to pay over $1500 for a laptop unless you need to brag to friends about how much you paid. If you are a heavy game player, perhaps. If the majority of your use is to surf the web, buy a laptop for less and you'll still be able to do virtually everything the guy who spent $3000 can do.

[CT_Muscle]

I want Windows XP... none of that Vista crap.

I usually buy from Dell.com, but all their stuff is Vista now.

Any advice?  I want a fast, tough laptop with a 17 inch screen at least.
$2000 or so?

Looking for a good place to buy them from.

thanks!

Most likely your gonna have to buy vista and just put xp back on it  at least if you want a new laptop

[El Diablo Blanco]

You can buy it and say you want to put linux on it and don't want windows.  Then put your own XP on it.

[SAMSON123]

hp is shit, i have a two-year old hp desktop and the cd/dvd drive started malfunctioning six months after i bought it, i also have a one-year old hp pavillon laptop and the cd/dvd drive started malfunctioning three months after i bought it, then the screen went blank.  it turned out the motherboard died.  i will never but an hp computer again.  (although the hp service was superb)

240, you can get a good laptop for under $1,000, i paid $1,400 for mine last year (2 gb ram, vista business, 256 mb video card, etc), now you can buy a laptop with better specs for half that price.  look for "back to school" specials.

BOTH COMPUTERS YOU TALK ABOUT ARE STILL UNDER WARRANTY...WHY DIDN'T YOU GET IT REPAIRED???

[BayGBM]

I want Windows XP... none of that Vista crap.

I usually buy from Dell.com, but all their stuff is Vista now.

Any advice?  I want a fast, tough laptop with a 17 inch screen at least.
$2000 or so?

Looking for a good place to buy them from.

thanks!

Consider the Macbook Pro.  You can configure it to run XP or Vista, AND Mac OSX! 

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/features.html
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bootcamp.html

[Bluto]

This is Getbig... not just a bbing site.

cool i hope a few thousand people register then and start posting about anything and everything found on google

[Tre]

With dual/quad core systems and plenty of ddr3 ++ ram you will have no trouble with vista, believe me.

I don't believe you, because you're 100% wrong.

When I do ctrl-alt-del in XP, I get the Windows task manager immediately.

In Vista, I have to do ctrl-alt-del, then computer 'shuts its eyes' for 2 seconds, a menu comes up, and then I have to click on 'Start task manager'. 

Even formerly simple tasks like navigating between file folders requires extra mouse-clicks in Vista. 

Which begs the question:  Why would anyone design a 'new' product that's worse - FAR worse - than the old product? 

Vista is responsible for the re-emergence of Apple in the past year...which is great for the American consumer.

 

[triple_pickle]

BOTH COMPUTERS YOU TALK ABOUT ARE STILL UNDER WARRANTY...WHY DIDN'T YOU GET IT REPAIRED???

i did, this is why i said the service was superb but the point is that i do not want to send my computer in in the first place

[knny187]

Consider the Macbook Pro.  You can configure it to run XP or Vista, AND Mac OSX! 

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/features.html
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bootcamp.html

thanks for helping me prove that apple wasn't gay