I'm getting a laptop soon and don't know much about whats good and whats not. I want a really nice one. Its for me to take to college. It needs to be ethernet compatible.



I really don't know what brands of laptops are good and which ones suck. I'm probably going to be in the 1100 to 1300 range, so I can splurge a little....



i'm going to be using it mostly for school work, but It will see some gaming and lots of music related stuff, so I want lots of hard drive space. I also want it to be pretty fast.



what do y'all think?

 

Hmm...IBM Thinkpads are priced within your range and you can sort of customize them from their site, give them a look. As for gaming...I'm not so sure, but I know I'm getting one for tuning/college. Good luck.

 

ok.. something to check out at least....

 

eh... my HP is cool but it cost 2500 with the warranty but its got alot of good music gaming wirless stuff...

 

Ignore my earlier budget...



i'm prolly looking at a nicer one than that. this is just one option. I might end up with a desktop....

 

well if you dont need a laptop dont get one, the only reason to get a laptop is because you need something portable, for the price of a nice laptop you can get a REAL nice pc

 

I got a dell inspiron 5100 for about $1300... it works pretty well, i wish it had more hard drive space (only 30 gigs), and Ive only had to use dell's service # twice... once they couldnt help, once they could. Besides that (and that every year or so you really should clean out the fan and heat sinks, but i think this applies to all laptops)(or maybe just cause I live in dirty NYC), Ive had no real problems with mine, and its great cause I can take it to class to do autocad etc.

 

I have a toshiba satellite.

 

i as well have a toshiba satellite and i love it. top of the line graphics card nice speakers 15.4in monitor, i cant complain.

 

SONY Vaio ....there warranty is AWESOME!and the computer kicks ***!!