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Recommend me a laptop for under $350

Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 9:49 pm
by Mike
Need a new laptop. Something used for mainly internet playing. Would like to have decent battery life and possibly backlit keyboard. Windows I guess would be good. Not sure what else is important. Right now walmart seems to be the best options.

Re: Recommend me a laptop for under $350

Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 9:50 pm
by WLJ
Win 7 or Win 8?

Re: Recommend me a laptop for under $350

Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 10:07 pm
by 1fastmach1
Well if it's new, your gonna be hard pressed to find anything that doesn't have windows 8. Windows 7 has went by the wayside. You mentioned something used, it's gonna have shit battery life.

Re: Recommend me a laptop for under $350

Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 10:12 pm
by WLJ
1fastmach1 wrote:Well if it's new, your gonna be hard pressed to find anything that doesn't have windows 8. Windows 7 has went by the wayside. You mentioned something used, it's gonna have shit battery life.
In a retail store yes W8 is about all you'll find, but order off some place like Newegg.com and buying a NIB win 7 notebook is no problem. I'm typing on a brand new Win 7 notebook right now. Dell, Acer, Lenovo and others are still pumping out w7 machines.

Re: Recommend me a laptop for under $350

Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 10:16 pm
by 1fastmach1
WLJ wrote:
1fastmach1 wrote:Well if it's new, your gonna be hard pressed to find anything that doesn't have windows 8. Windows 7 has went by the wayside. You mentioned something used, it's gonna have shit battery life.
In a retail store yes W8 is about all you'll find, but order off some place like Newegg.com and buying a NIB win 7 notebook is no problem. I'm typing on a brand new Win 7 notebook right now. Dell, Acer, Lenovo and others are still pumping out w7 machines.
He mentioned Walmart so yeah. That's why I made that comment. Newegg is pretty good. I got the parts for several of my desktops and my current server there. Awesome place to do business. I actually had gotten a VGA card that was DOA. They replaced it with no questions asked. Great company.

Recommend me a laptop for under $350

Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 10:18 pm
by Toddinlou
MacBook Pro for the ultimate in porn surfing without as many worries about virus and spyware.... But then there is the apple tax


Oops missed the under 350 part. Off by about 10x

Re: Recommend me a laptop for under $350

Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 10:18 pm
by WLJ
Plus many w8 machines have a downgrade license.

Re: Recommend me a laptop for under $350

Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 11:11 pm
by ProCroation
Acer has served me well for many years and HP has not failed me yet but it's only been a year. Go acer I guess is my opinion.

Re: Recommend me a laptop for under $350

Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 11:12 pm
by KYgundude