Laptops/NoteBooks/UltraBooks

[X]

I prefer my personal hack of classic shell. I just use too many damn programs to like the newer designs by Microsoft.

Tell ya what...sell me that, and i'll give my wife my current laptop.


$200? I'll pay for shipping.

 

[Jester]

I develop on both OSX(Macbook) and Windows. For the home user either platform is fine but Apple is way overpriced and proprietary. I prefer developing on the macbook due to OS X and Unix family OS. As purely home user I enjoy my Windows laptop, much more power for the same price.

 

[FrenchieBully]

Given your price range, I can't suggest anything cheaper than this one. Because it's going to have a NetBook(Atom/AMD E-Series/ARM Chrome) CPU, which is niche for usage and slow for performance compared to standard 5-6 year old CPUs that your wife may already have. Basically a disappointment.

Low-end. $430+delivery http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-K55N-DB81-15-6-Inch-Laptop-Black/dp/B00COR29XI

It's actually an outstanding unit for the price. Good AMD APU model(you have to know which AMD chips are good, and which aren't), this one is IMO is among the best because you wont match the performance for the price with other AMD chips or Celeron/i3 systems with wimpy Intel GMA graphics. It's native 720p resolution is the downside.

High-end $550+delivery (of your spectrum)
http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/retail-product.jsp?poid=2000071695 Which can be found here for sale. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Toshiba...lver/9041726.p?id=1218974707505&skuId=9041726

Good specs all around. For your wife's needs, it will outperform the laptop above, but it will be significantly slower for games that require directx(games that use 3D) due to the basic Intel HD graphics. Better resolution and screen in general.


HP sucks for budget anything now. Everyone who knows anything is pretty baffled at how they can remain in the laptop business. Dells are okay if you buy an enterprise model, nothing in your range is an enterprise-type model :nope: and even then, you need something very specific to make it worthwhile over their competition.

This post reminded me of my boss talking smack about her $350 gateway (or some other garbage brand) PC her family uses as a backup and saying how Macs are soooooo much better.

 

[Ares]

This post reminded me of my boss talking smack about her $350 gateway (or some other garbage brand) PC her family uses as a backup and saying how Macs are soooooo much better.

Price = Quality ... did you not know this? /sarcasm :lol:

 

[Monk]

You can try Open Office instead of the MS Office.

I recommend Open Office. I use it at work and have created a database so we can log and track jobs as they move through our shop. It's pretty good.