What laptop do you recommend for a student?

Question

i would mostly be using it surfing the internet,uploading pics,music and saving documents so i need lots of free space.so any recommendations???i heard hp were a good brand and not to pricey does any1 have 1 an r they any good?

is the Dell inspiron 1501 any good?

Answer 1

I would recommend HP and Toshiba, a friend has a HP and is very good, I have just purchased a Toshiba and is much more reliable than my old Packard Bell.
I would stay away from Dell's from personal experience, overpriced for what they are.

Go for a laptop with XP if possible, will run a lot smoother than Vista, wait till its been ironed out before upgrading.

Answer 2

The brand name is really not important. I would get a 250GB hard drive (that is huge ), an Intel Duel core (1.86GHz) processor,and 1024 MB of RAM.Like I said,the brand is not important,Dell,hp,Gateway (etc) are all about the same,but if I were to pick one,it would probably be Dell.You should focus on the Processor,hard drive,and Random Access Memory (RAM).I could talk all day on this subject,but these things are the basic things to concentrate on.Also,if you are into gaming,you should have Graphic card with it's own memory.Mine has 512 MB of Hipermemory.

Answer 3

HP and Dell are your top two sellers, offering good value and choice. The new Dell inspiron line with it's eight colored choice alloy case has made a big hit.

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Answer 4

HPs are fine. I don't look at the brand actually, I look for the specifications (memory, clock speed, front side bus [fsb], hard drive, 802.11 connection, processor and others) because there are some Laptops that performs more faster or the same as the branded ones but at bit more cheaper.

Answer 5

The HPs are good however if you have a prolem with it all of the help is abroad and so costs alot! I recently got a Acer laptop and that was really cheap, i would keep an eye out. A good place to check out laptop specifications is www.comet.co.uk or it may be comet.com

Answer 6

Yes the hps are just fine, if you get one with windows vista you should get one with 1gb of RAM or more otherwise the performance is very bad, Also dell has good laptops if you want to look there also.

Answer 7

Check out the Dells. They are running a back to school sale with all sorts of discounts and free shipping on certain laptops. Go to www.dell.com

Answer 8

Well .. since you need it for music and pics and documents .... then you can easily use a Mac ... it's more efficient, more secure, and since you don't want it for gaming ... it's suitable ... Macbook would be a good choice .. since It can run Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows .. here is a link for the laptop features ...http://www.apple.com/macbook/macbook.html .. and this link is for the prices .. http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore?family=MacBook

Answer 9

I would highly recommend a Toshiba Satellite M65-S9092 for a student.

Answer 10

I love IBM. It stays for a longer period of time as I experienced. You just have to add or upgrade your computer's (any brand) hard drive to bigger capacity to have a lot of disk space.