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<blockquote data-quote="John B. Miller" data-source="post: 40549" data-attributes="member: 1031">Re: What laptop computer to buy?Computers these days are WAY more powerful than most people need them to be. My mother-in-law just spent $1500 on a Macbook Pro to do her email, internet browsing, and word processing...(sigh). I offered to give her an old laptop for FREE that I have around here that works just fine. Would I edit video on it? No, but for her needs, it&#039;s perfect. My wife&#039;s sister took her shopping to &quot;look at&quot; some computers, and they were summarily talked into buying the Macbook by the salesman. Arghh!!If you want to record a bunch of tracks of audio or do photo and video crunching, get a fast computer, otherwise save your money.What I&#039;ve heard from friends in the computer biz is that the entry-level laptops, while cheap, are also more prone to failures throughout their lives, and since they usually come with maybe a 90-day warranty, ya takes yer chances. For $279 though...it&#039;s almost disposable, which is good and bad. In many cases, their advice has been to buy a 2-3 year old business-grade machine off a lease, which is what I have done a couple of times now and have been very happy.I have a six year old laptop that runs smaart all day long. It&#039;s sure not as cool as a new Macbook, but I&#039;d rather take the $1500 and save it for retirement. Just me...j</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John B. Miller, post: 40549, member: 1031"] Re: What laptop computer to buy? Computers these days are WAY more powerful than most people need them to be. My mother-in-law just spent $1500 on a Macbook Pro to do her email, internet browsing, and word processing...(sigh). I offered to give her an old laptop for FREE that I have around here that works just fine. Would I edit video on it? No, but for her needs, it's perfect. My wife's sister took her shopping to "look at" some computers, and they were summarily talked into buying the Macbook by the salesman. Arghh!! If you want to record a bunch of tracks of audio or do photo and video crunching, get a fast computer, otherwise save your money. What I've heard from friends in the computer biz is that the entry-level laptops, while cheap, are also more prone to failures throughout their lives, and since they usually come with maybe a 90-day warranty, ya takes yer chances. For $279 though...it's almost disposable, which is good and bad. In many cases, their advice has been to buy a 2-3 year old business-grade machine off a lease, which is what I have done a couple of times now and have been very happy. I have a six year old laptop that runs smaart all day long. It's sure not as cool as a new Macbook, but I'd rather take the $1500 and save it for retirement. Just me... j [/QUOTE]

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