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Hi, I hav a Compaq laptop. The company isn't around anymore, and my laptop is currently "snapping in two" slowly. this happened to my friend too, and she had the same one as me.

I am currently trying to save up for another laptop, so I was wondering what laptops are good. I'm looking for a durable, widescreen one. But, just brand names will work too.

Thanks SOO much! my life is in my comp.

I would suggest IMMEDIATLY backing up ALL your data to an external source in case the computer finally crashes down. HP makes really good laptops. If you have an insane price rang I would suggest checking out alienware laptops. They are custom made to fit your needs and are really great machines, but have a pricey range.

Edit:
there are a few ways to backup your data.

The best and easiest being buying an external hard drive. It's is bassically a hard drive just like the one in your computer, but portable. You would need to buy one the same size as the one in your computer and then you could easily transfer your data to the new computer and store it until then. However these can be a bit pricey, though always useful to have around.

You could try burning your important files to DVD-R discs, but that isn't the easiest way to do it and is very slow. If you do this, I would recommend taking only your most important files.

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(Rating: 5) Thank you so much!!! I will deffinitaly do that, but what should I bac it up onto?

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