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good laptops
Hi, i'm looking for a good laptop to take to school. Basically what I want is something that can handle my photography really well, and also regular school stuff, documents, etc. Simple, but fast and durable. I would also like a large screen. Anything under 2K is good.
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Buy a Dell.
Why?
PCs are better than Macs. Its a simple fact, they are more compatible and if protected correctly just as safe and reliable, and if you back up your data you can just reformat it and reload windows every 6 months and it will run until the hardware dies (my laptop is at the 5 year mark and on its way out)
Why Dell?
Because they have the best guarantees. You can get a great laptop plus a great warranty, and dell is by far the most customer friendly group you can deal with. Ive seen the inside of apple customer support and tech support. They have just as many if not more lemon computers going out, and once you've made it past the return period dealing with their tech is a nightmare. Dell, by comparison, will show up at your house and fix it for you if necessary.
You can build a desktop, but laptops you're going to get from a company, and simply put dell is the easiest by far to deal with. You can get a great computer for under 2k easily, you can design it yourself, and you can insure it against all kinds of crap. Accidental damage, parts wear, etc for 4 years.
I use alienware, but theyve been bought out by Dell (who is better with warranties and tech than even alienware was) and in the 3 years I had my computer Ive replaced a screen, a hard drive, my CD drive and the video card.
To give you an idea, I use computers hard. Lots of graphics intensive programs that generate alot of heat, lots of burned CDs, lots of everything. Downloading things for literally days without a break.
A Dell computer will last a good while and come relatively cheap.
If "school" means "college" you might want to look into your college's tech programs. At mine, they had a deal with microsoft to sell windows xp pro and microsoft office professional for 20 bucks instead of hundreds that it costs retail.
If thats the case, you could talk to dell about wiping windows vista and putting xp pro on it and ask how well it would utilize the system resources (I don't know how well XP runs with dual or quad core processors, or more than 2-3 gigs of ram. Something to research)
Go to dell.com and design one. Thats probably what you should end up buying.
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personally i love the apple computers
would not recommend the macbook air because it doesnt have that much space on it
maybe the macbook pro would be good... thats what i have and i love it
also macs last longer because they dont get viruses... i dont know why but every windows ive had has crashed in a few years and my mac is still just as fast as when i bought it
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Hp is the best or toshiba they can handle a lot of stuff and arent very expensive either.
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