1. What is your budget? $300 (read: as low as possible - just want to know how close I can get)
2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? 11"-14"
3. What screen resolution do you want? 720 or better
4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? This would be for portability/work at the office/on site; have desktop that suits my needs when at home.
5. How much battery life do you need? 5-6 hours should be ample
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)? Not necessary
7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.) Will be used for a majority of web-based tasks, but also use Open Office, Gimp, maybe SketchUp
8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need? I think 250GB would be enough
9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links. Nothing favored but I do frequent MicroCenter and browse Newegg a lot.
10. How long do you want to keep your laptop? 3-5 yrs; this is meant to be a more entry-level purchase to get me going in a new profession
11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ? I don't think this is a critical item to have, so if it doesn't it just weighs less
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. Am open to pretty much anything
13. What country do you live in? USA
14. Please tell us any additional information if needed. As I said, meant to be kind of an entry level machine to get me going for the first few years as I change careers; will be working some from an office, but the company has gone to a lot of web-based documents and 99.4% of my client information is going to be coming from the web, but I'm a desktop user at heart and favor a handful of open source stuff. Have already considered updating an old laptop that is out of date enough that it really doesn't make sense to, and have also looked into going with a budget Chromebook and loading Ubuntu to take care of the web and my programs, but seems that printing (or relying on the ability of the office's IT guy to know enough about Ubuntu (I don't!) to install and support the office printers and such) is where that train of thought is coming to an end. Other important things to me are quick boot (thinking SSD) and responsiveness of programs.
2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? 11"-14"
3. What screen resolution do you want? 720 or better
4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? This would be for portability/work at the office/on site; have desktop that suits my needs when at home.
5. How much battery life do you need? 5-6 hours should be ample
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)? Not necessary
7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.) Will be used for a majority of web-based tasks, but also use Open Office, Gimp, maybe SketchUp
8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need? I think 250GB would be enough
9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links. Nothing favored but I do frequent MicroCenter and browse Newegg a lot.
10. How long do you want to keep your laptop? 3-5 yrs; this is meant to be a more entry-level purchase to get me going in a new profession
11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ? I don't think this is a critical item to have, so if it doesn't it just weighs less
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. Am open to pretty much anything
13. What country do you live in? USA
14. Please tell us any additional information if needed. As I said, meant to be kind of an entry level machine to get me going for the first few years as I change careers; will be working some from an office, but the company has gone to a lot of web-based documents and 99.4% of my client information is going to be coming from the web, but I'm a desktop user at heart and favor a handful of open source stuff. Have already considered updating an old laptop that is out of date enough that it really doesn't make sense to, and have also looked into going with a budget Chromebook and loading Ubuntu to take care of the web and my programs, but seems that printing (or relying on the ability of the office's IT guy to know enough about Ubuntu (I don't!) to install and support the office printers and such) is where that train of thought is coming to an end. Other important things to me are quick boot (thinking SSD) and responsiveness of programs.
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