The climax of a truly crappy day

[ellid]

My computer is either dying or dead. I'm going to try to get it back long enough to save my files onto a flash drive, but it looks like I'll need a new computer Real Soon, since my laptop won't be enough to handle everything.

Recommendations on something inexpensive and reliable would be greatly appreciated....

Comments

[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

Well, drat.

I really like my little Acer, it was $300. No disc drive, tho'.

[varianor.livejournal.com]

They tend to do that. We've had excellent results with some Dell laptops that we bought at Best Buy. Cost about $500 (plus a little more to get a current version of Word installed), have nice big screens, 4 GB of RAM, built-in wireless, built-in webcam, lotsa cool features. It took a little bit to get used to Vista, but it's actually a fairly decent (for Windows) operating system

[thickets.livejournal.com]

It's crazy, but I think most new computers that you're going to buy now are going to have Windows 7. It happened really fast over the last month. I've been looking for a cheap netbook to carry around and use for writing so I can keep my other laptop for gaming, and one day I went into Best Buy and bam! Almost everything had Windows 7 on it.

[cluegirl.livejournal.com]

Get a netbook.

Any needs for storage can be met with external hard drives and/or external disc drives (for uploading software,) they are light weight, they are fast, and they are reliably under $500 -- WELL under. The one I'm flying right now was just about $300, and it's brilliant.

9 hours or more of battery life, kick ass and quick processors. The only drawback is that its speakers are for crap. But that's why God made headphones.

[ellid.livejournal.com]

What kind would you recommend? I can use my laptop for a while until I know my needs are.

[cluegirl.livejournal.com]

Mine's a Toshiba NB205, from Best Buy. It came with Windows XP, Skype, bluetooth, and WiFi soft/hardware installed, as well as a built in webcamera, three USB ports, and an ethernet port. It can run a line out to a printer, and headphone/microphone/speaker jacks, and a slot for a memory card on the front.

It really is a very versatile piece of machinery, and it has a lot of functions I don't particularly need, but I got it because it had a big enough processor that I could run nearly everything I needed online with it. CPU N280 1.66GHz. 0.99GB of RAM.

It was on the high end of price for the netbooks they had in the store, but it was also the one they couldn't keep on the shelves. And, having used this one for several months now, I am in LOVE with it. HIGHLY reccomended, even with the potential additional price of the USB storage and/or USB disk drive. (You can find those for under $100 easily these days, BTW.)