IHAFUF Posted November 23, 2010 Report Share Posted November 23, 2010 What laptop do you guys recommend for my sister?Shes those kind of people who use use msn,webcam and skype a lot. Her laptop was not even able to last for two years ==' Shes got a **** load of virues that leech our net making my ping around 500ms when I play in a local server sometimes even 1000. She doesn't even have a anti-virus (GOD HELP ME!) She was thinking of getting a Mac book. She does also need it for her school work. Which laptop best suits her ==' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
† L4ugh Posted November 23, 2010 Report Share Posted November 23, 2010 First I would get her some antivirus software, if money is tight, some free ones are avast, avira, and avg. A good place to find antivirus and spyware software as well as some other software goodies is http://majorgeeks.com. While I do trust this site, for the most part, I still recommend downloading any software from the developers home site. A quick googling of the software could also help prevent "unwanted difficulties."As for the laptop I would recommend a asus eeepc netbook. They have a built in webcam, and also come with skype preinstalled. Their lite weight and have good battery life. Doing your homework on any potential buys is recommended as well because some models are hard to upgrade, if they even offer the ability to upgrade at all. For example my sister and I both have netbooks, mine is an eeepc 1000HE, and hers is some kind of HP. Her's is newer and in all honesty has a better layout, but it isn't possible to upgrade ram. You can't upgrade the HD without taking the entire thing apart because its buried behind the case. On the other hand, mine has a nice big door on the back that allows me to quickly upgrade both ram and HD. HaHaHas aside, all I'm really trying to say here is some laptop models are designed to be obsolete at launch, and only homework can prevent you from being stuck with a lemon.The eeepcs aren't really made for games but I have gotten alot or my old emu roms to run it, and who doesn't love playing the Knights of the Round arcade where ever they want.Hope this can help, if you have any other questions just ask.L4ugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IHAFUF Posted November 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2010 First I would get her some antivirus software, if money is tight, some free ones are avast, avira, and avg. A good place to find antivirus and spyware software as well as some other software goodies is http://majorgeeks.com. While I do trust this site, for the most part, I still recommend downloading any software from the developers home site. A quick googling of the software could also help prevent "unwanted difficulties."As for the laptop I would recommend a asus eeepc netbook. They have a built in webcam, and also come with skype preinstalled. Their lite weight and have good battery life. Doing your homework on any potential buys is recommended as well because some models are hard to upgrade, if they even offer the ability to upgrade at all. For example my sister and I both have netbooks, mine is an eeepc 1000HE, and hers is some kind of HP. Her's is newer and in all honesty has a better layout, but it isn't possible to upgrade ram. You can't upgrade the HD without taking the entire thing apart because its buried behind the case. On the other hand, mine has a nice big door on the back that allows me to quickly upgrade both ram and HD. HaHaHas aside, all I'm really trying to say here is some laptop models are designed to be obsolete at launch, and only homework can prevent you from being stuck with a lemon.The eeepcs aren't really made for games but I have gotten alot or my old emu roms to run it, and who doesn't love playing the Knights of the Round arcade where ever they want.Hope this can help, if you have any other questions just ask.L4ughWe're never tight on money man, its something called " Typical Asian Parents" anyways thanks for the suggestion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hagi Posted November 29, 2010 Report Share Posted November 29, 2010 you can just buy an HP dv or G series laptop...there very good i have one of each series and it works real good...wen i do encodin and decodin of videos.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oathkeeper75 Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 I would recommend a mac, if she attracts a lot of viruses. I've had my mac for 3.5 years and have yet to get a virus. HOWEVER on mac she can't use her webcam for MSN but if she really needs it she can just instal windows on it with either bootcamp or virtual box. I have virtual box on mine and it works great, however it should only be used if your going to run 1-3 windows only programs, since I'm not sure if you can change the memory of the OS once you set it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
didgest Posted March 29, 2011 Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 What ever type you choose, I would recommend you get a laptop that has a physical switch on it for wifi, not some function key command. it will make things a lot easier if you want to put Linux on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilwill00 Posted March 29, 2011 Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 How much is the spending limit??? The last laptop I bought is very good and performs well..Never had a problem with and does any and everything i want it to.. Comes with alot of software to do almost anything... Don't cost that much but the price is still up their..Link---> HP Pavilion dv7-4069wm Laptop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theonehell Posted April 1, 2011 Report Share Posted April 1, 2011 My personal choice of laptop is somthing from the upgraded acer aspire serise. it's never let me down and to a certain extent fairly cheap i got mine for around £200. still it depends on what you see and belive as reliable source, in truth i'd much rather have a towered PC somthing i can fidle with and make better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
† Anras Rune Posted April 1, 2011 Report Share Posted April 1, 2011 How much is the spending limit??? The last laptop I bought is very good and performs well..Never had a problem with and does any and everything i want it to.. Comes with alot of software to do almost anything... Don't cost that much but the price is still up their..Link---> HP Pavilion dv7-4069wm Laptopi would recommened the pavillion series as well...we have three of the buggers in total, they come with some brilliant software pre installed and are defo worth the larger price tag...not to mention they look very good!! ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4evervideo Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 MacBook Pro if $ allowed. You could run both PC and Mac at same time like I do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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