could you help me with a laptop purchase please? (wga question)
windows update question
Sunday, May 28, 2006 by werewolf | Discussion: Personal Computing
Acer, HP, Gateway, Dell, Avaratec, Toshiba, Compaq, Lenovo, Sony.....
Oy.
My daughter just graduated high school and I would like to get her a laptop to take to college. It doesn't have to be anything fancy, but something around $1k is all I can afford.
Basically this system:
15" tft monitor
60g hdd minimum
512mg ram minimum
8-12 cell battery lithium ion
wifi enabled/lan
fast processor (have no idea what kinds of processor options I was looking at.)
fast graphics (128m vram)? She doesn't do computer games.
probably some other stuff I'm not even thinking about...
and the biggie: RELIABLE TECH SUPPORT/warranties, on site stuff, as I saw on the Gateway site. I'm not going to be down the hall to help her when problems arise.
So after days of looking around on the net and reading forum articles here and CNET and others, looking in Amazon, Newegg, TigerDirect, some of the brand name sites, I'm just confused and have a headache. Some of the machines were just what I was looking for, but I've never heard of the manufacturer, some of the places had good prices, but I saw no way of upgrading.
I just need some recommendations/suggestions. I would certainly apprectiate the help.
david
Oy.
My daughter just graduated high school and I would like to get her a laptop to take to college. It doesn't have to be anything fancy, but something around $1k is all I can afford.
Basically this system:
15" tft monitor
60g hdd minimum
512mg ram minimum
8-12 cell battery lithium ion
wifi enabled/lan
fast processor (have no idea what kinds of processor options I was looking at.)
fast graphics (128m vram)? She doesn't do computer games.
probably some other stuff I'm not even thinking about...
and the biggie: RELIABLE TECH SUPPORT/warranties, on site stuff, as I saw on the Gateway site. I'm not going to be down the hall to help her when problems arise.
So after days of looking around on the net and reading forum articles here and CNET and others, looking in Amazon, Newegg, TigerDirect, some of the brand name sites, I'm just confused and have a headache. Some of the machines were just what I was looking for, but I've never heard of the manufacturer, some of the places had good prices, but I saw no way of upgrading.
I just need some recommendations/suggestions. I would certainly apprectiate the help.
david
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Reply #41 Tuesday, September 5, 2006 8:31 PM
That's the problem I've been reading about. I paid a bit extra to get Windows XP on my daughters machine. If she installs the WGA and it says it's an invalid install and suggests that I buy WinXP again I would be upset.
From what I've read, validating only costs a few dollars less that the full install disk set, so that would again be bad.
However, all this is kind of moot at this point because that auto patcher thing works really well.
When I was investigating all this I decided from the get-go to get the most they had to offer in the deal (as long as it didn't go waaaaay outside my price range) so as to avoid having to upgrade anytime in the future.
After seeing what her machine can do, I'm not sorry I did.