If you'd like you can skip to the end for the criteria but here's a little back story. My girlfriend has had an HP pavilion for a few years now (i believe its the dv-1400(?)). The screen randomly started to go black and after some trouble shooting i figured it was one of the inverter cables. I generally deal with tearing down desktops that have wayyy more room making it such an easy job, but i followed the simple steps and it wasnt too bad. Issue is when i started to open it up I unleashed a can of worms with plastic pieces just randomly floating around, and even discovering that the metal bracket that was holding the LCD was snapped. Instead of spending more time breaking it down and putting it back together with no reassurance it'd work or last very long, she concluded that its about time to buy a new laptop.
She's on a tight budget, being a college student, and needs a laptop for internet surfing, streaming shows, word processing, and some light gaming. Her budget is tops 400$ and id prefer she spends less than that unless is a considerable difference in upgrade. Coming from the desktop scene, im not the best at figuring out laptops so i came to the community. Im not a fanboy of either AMD or Intel, i go with whichever is the best value at that price point. Rather it not be a chrome book or netbook, and i have a few licenses of W7 left so a laptop without an OS can work too. Thanks.
1. What is your budget? 400 at most, prefer less.
2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? 15" or above
3. What screen resolution do you want? preferably 1080, 768 is ok.
4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? desktop replacement laptop
5. How much battery life do you need? Not a crazy requirement but the longer the better
6. Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)? Very light gaming (some portal and flash games) any setting.
7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.) Web surfing, streaming, word processing
8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need? preferably 500gb but any hdd will suffice.
9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links. Im ok with any major site such as newegg, amazon, tigerdirect, etc
10. How long do you want to keep your laptop? as long as possible. 4 years+
11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ? DVD/CD-R
12. Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons. Not a fanboy, just looking for value and reliability.
13. What country do you live in? Good Ole USA
14. Please tell us any additional information if needed. n/a
She's on a tight budget, being a college student, and needs a laptop for internet surfing, streaming shows, word processing, and some light gaming. Her budget is tops 400$ and id prefer she spends less than that unless is a considerable difference in upgrade. Coming from the desktop scene, im not the best at figuring out laptops so i came to the community. Im not a fanboy of either AMD or Intel, i go with whichever is the best value at that price point. Rather it not be a chrome book or netbook, and i have a few licenses of W7 left so a laptop without an OS can work too. Thanks.
1. What is your budget? 400 at most, prefer less.
2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? 15" or above
3. What screen resolution do you want? preferably 1080, 768 is ok.
4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? desktop replacement laptop
5. How much battery life do you need? Not a crazy requirement but the longer the better
6. Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)? Very light gaming (some portal and flash games) any setting.
7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.) Web surfing, streaming, word processing
8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need? preferably 500gb but any hdd will suffice.
9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links. Im ok with any major site such as newegg, amazon, tigerdirect, etc
10. How long do you want to keep your laptop? as long as possible. 4 years+
11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ? DVD/CD-R
12. Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons. Not a fanboy, just looking for value and reliability.
13. What country do you live in? Good Ole USA
14. Please tell us any additional information if needed. n/a
/www.amazon.com/ASUS-K55N-DB81-15-6-Inch-Laptop-Black/dp/B00COR29XI/ref=sr_1_3?m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1378481134&sr=1-3
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