What would you consider buying for the least cost, but best computing power for school work... i probably will not be gaming on it, because i just dont lol

Dell Inspiron's seem to hold there value quite well for $700.
Friend has one, fully upgrades, and it runs like a trooper.
Great for gaming aswell.

Ive been looking at the HP thats like a step below the power house? idk the name of it i saw it at best buy and my friend suggested it so idk... my friends dad is an hp tech too

I would never buy a Dell, personally.

Asus makes decent laptops.

care to explain why? i'm just curious.

Dell is notorious for using outdated and integrated hardware so you can't really upgrade and you have to buy another Dell within two years, just to keep afloat.

They might have cleaned up their laptops since I last bought one (2004), but I doubt it.

Whitebox laptops are the best deal for the price, though. You get exactly the components you want and at a minimal assembly charge.

Install linux and gg.

I have a dell inspiron that I bought 2 years ago and its still rockin. I've never had any problems with it, but I've also never tried to upgrade it(other than RAM and HD I don't know what you would want to to, but w/e). My sister also just bought a new inspiron and it too is very nice, but it was not under $700.

As for HP I would never buy one, I don't have any facts to back up my opinion, only personal experience, but every single one that I have seen/worked with has sucked ballz.

So you know I'm not just blowing BS out my bunghole: I am a network technician in the Air National Guard, my job is mostly taking care of infrastructure including, but not limited to small computers. The AF has a contract with HP and that is where we get all of our PC's and they are all garbage. All of them.


My suggestion: Dell/Acer

This post was edited by mrnate01 on Aug 12 2009 09:35pm

but you pay a price for the name here...