i need to get a laptop today for work tomorrow. ive never bought a laptop before. does anyone know where would have the best deals? i only have like $760 to spend and it needs to be new. oh im in san jose so somwhere in that area. thanks !

 

i'd say buy a sunday newspaper and go through the ads

 

http://newspaperads.mercurynews.com/...23595&cat=3525

Good luck. If you are looking for a laptop for office work you budget will work.

 

thanks for the quick answers, i appreciate it. i think i will go pick up the sunday paper before i hit up a store

 

stay the **** away from sony... they might look nice and run okay from the get go.. but problems will arise.

 

usually dell has really good deals on laptops.
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they usually show a sale on a laptop once a week.

 

Get a Mac at the Apple store. I don't think you can go wrong, but that is a little out of the price range you stated. For the price though, it is definitely worth it.

 

Costco

 

+1 for Macs, although since those are out of the price range, look at some toshibas, they are supposed to have pretty good warranties

 

Toshiba makes some pretty good value laptops. IBM makes a really nice laptop but I can't remember if they come in at your price range. Dell's are OK and you can usually get more for your money than with other brands with their coupons and sales.

Edit: HP is pretty good as well. Also, with almost every laptop it helps to go through and get rid of a bunch of the preloaded crap that slows it down that you won't need.

 

hey everyone, i just got back from circuit city and i got the hp dv6426us but if thats a bad buy i can return it. mac35g mentioned to get rid of the preloaded stuff. which stuff should i get rid of?

 

everything that you don't need... the different surveys, programs that you will never use... Run msconfig and get rid of the programs that start up when you turn on the computer. it makes boot up that much faster.

 

Yeah clear that stuff for sure.. When i bought my dell xps there was 76 programs running at start up lol.. even though it was under 0% load i removed all that i wasnt using.

 

ooo i forgot about macs. Very good choice if you get a mac. to many adware and spyware, viruses, trogans etc... are mainly targeted at the windows OS since a majority of the public is using them. There are some for macs but few compared to windows. In the long run you will def have LESS trouble/problems with macs. Especially if the laptop was used for work! Macs are just much more safer IMO. though ease of use, eye friendly you would go with windows. Dell is cheap and the parts are easy to source since everybody buys a dell.

 

cool, thanks right now im on the phone with linksys trying to set up wireless internet because i have comcast but its wired to the desktop