I'm Thinking.

[Siggie]

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I have had 2 Dell laptops and never a problem. Sony's are good too, but they're loud. That's all irrelevant to Lefty's question though because he doesn't want a laptop.

Էլիա, yes... The mac OS is lixus based.

[Sip]

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Sony's are good too, but they're loud. ...

It really depends. My main latop is a Vaio T350 and I has been VERY VERY good. It makes no noise at all pretty much, and the battery lasts a good 6 hours with normal use. It is very light and portable. I basically carry it around everywhere with me.

The larger VAIO's I have not been too impressed with in the past. Usually they are not as fun to use to me and they definitely get loud (most performance laptops do).

As far as Dell, I got my girl the latitude D420 and it has been an excellent laptop. My brother has the older 700m (I think) which has also been great although battery life is not the best.

In my experience, Dell power supplies have been horribly crappy ... both my brother's and my girl friend's died within the first few days. But on the other hand, a quick email to dell and they overnight one right away .. so pretty much they know they have a bad batch of power supplies The laptops themselves have all been champs.

I have a 5 year old Dell latitude something or other that just keeps going and going ... one of the LCD hinges is busted but I think that happened while traveling (a lot) in my bag as there was too much pressure on it at times.

Now, there are sooooo many choices out there it is hard to say what is good and what is not good. Typically you get what you pay for, except with MACs that always tend to be very overpriced. Sonys are also high priced at times and that doesn't always reflect quality. But in the super portable category, I think Sony has always been one of the best. For run of the mill, business class, take a beating and still keep working laptops, Dell will get the job done ... but HP, Gateway, Toshiba, Sharp, etc are also ok. Toshiba has some very nice and VERY cheap laptops if you want one that's super cheap.

[Fedayeen]

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How much you want to spend?

What are you gonna use for?

[Էլիա]

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You should get a computer with an Intel Core Duo processor, of course.

[Fedayeen]

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You should get a computer with an Intel Core Duo processor, of course.

Core 2 Duo*

[skhara]

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Just buy a case with a power supply, motherboard, cpu + fan, hard drive, and whatever other drives you want. Get an OEM version of XP, slap it all together, and you are good to go with a cheap, solid performing, without all the comercial crap, computer.

[crusader1492]

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A Commodore 64 should suit you.

You can research it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64

[crusader1492]

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BTW, the title of your post is "I'm thinking"...be careful - don't hurt yourself.

[Էլիա]

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^crusader, please stop trying to insult him already...

[crusader1492]

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^crusader, please stop trying to insult him already...

Pleeeease...I know good people who left this forum because it has been dumbed-down by MrLeftHye and his useless blabbering. I'm pissed because of that and I want his BS to stop.
What you call "insulting" is my version of negative reinforcement toward MrLeftHye's nonsense. I'm hoping one day, he takes the hint and acts with the decorum conducive to something that resembles thoughtful discussion.

With that said, why should the members of this forum suffer from the banality of MrLeftHye's post? In short, his presence is distracting. In fact, his posts are quite uniformed and many times just plain dumb.

Anyway, you're new here. Maybe you should gain some clout here before you make such pontificating requests of me.