1. What is your budget?
My budget is about $400-$500 Canadian, trying to keep it under $500 after taxes if possible or close to it.
2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?
I haven't ever had a laptop before, so I'd say standard size and screen, but not the mini notebooks.
3. What screen resolution do you want?
Well maybe 15-17" monitor, so w/e resolution that gets
4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
This laptop is just for a family member, it is not a replacement for a desktop, it's just so they have something to use at any time.
5. How much battery life do you need?
The more the better, not sure the av. battery life. But I imagine it will be used at home mainly and plugged in.
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)?
Seeing how it's for my mother probably not, but it wouldn't hurt to be able to run non graphically intense games on low-med.
7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.)
This laptop will be mainly used for internet surfing, and watching videos/movies.
8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need?
320Gb maybe+, but this isn't much of a concern as long as it has 100+ Gb at least.
9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links.
www.tigerdirect.ca would be option number 1, as I can do a pickup etc. www.newegg.ca will do also if the laptops there are better, which I assume they have a wider range and better prices.
10. How long do you want to keep your laptop?
As long as possible. Like mentioned earlier this is mainly for net surfing/video/movie watching. Some thing that we won't have to immediately replace because it's getting slow with apps and such.
11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ?
The more the merrier, but I would at least like it to have one regular dvd drive, don't necessarily need a ROM/WRITER.
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 sure about which brands as laptops aren't my area of expertise. I know desktops but not sure about lappy's. So whatever is best for the price range stated.
13. What country do you live in?
Canada