- Sep 29, 2000
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I am having a laptop bought for me this afternoon. I won't be there to input the final decision and parry the idiocy from the Best Buy employee and block his attack of lies with +4 deceit.
What in particular should I direct the purchaser to look for? This is going to be a fairly entry level laptop. Is there any tier that should be observed? E.g. if you spend $600 instead of $500 you start moving into laptops that would have some semblance of competency with games? I've been happy with my last two PC's Athlon setups and I see dual-core is available even at the low-end.
My belief with electronics purchases that have extended warranties based not on brand but cost is to buy the most features possible from the sh*tiest brand and get an extended warranty, so I am not concerned with brand really.
A blu-ray burner would be nice because I'm tired of burning multiple DVDs to back things up but not sure what coin has to be dropped for that.
What in particular should I direct the purchaser to look for? This is going to be a fairly entry level laptop. Is there any tier that should be observed? E.g. if you spend $600 instead of $500 you start moving into laptops that would have some semblance of competency with games? I've been happy with my last two PC's Athlon setups and I see dual-core is available even at the low-end.
My belief with electronics purchases that have extended warranties based not on brand but cost is to buy the most features possible from the sh*tiest brand and get an extended warranty, so I am not concerned with brand really.
A blu-ray burner would be nice because I'm tired of burning multiple DVDs to back things up but not sure what coin has to be dropped for that.