Category: Garage Sale
I am looking for a resonably priced laptop or where to get one. I mean like a website or something.
How much are you willing to spend?
Cortney
Well, actually, you can get new laptops relatively cheaply now from places like Best Buy! About a year ago, I bought a HP ZE4315 with an Athlon XP1800Plus processor, CDRW/DVD-Rom combo drive, 30GB hd, and 256MB of ram for $899. The price for even better machines has gone down more since then! Don't sell yourself short! Buy brand new, and just remember, AMD works just fine! Intell is the computer mafia, along with Microsoft!
Ya, if you have any credit at all, and you don't need much, you can probably pull down 12 months same as cash on a laptop, so you have a year to pay it off without interest.
Well I really don't have a spending limit meaning I don't know how much I want to spend. I want to get a laptop that uses a regular keyboard. Or I should say a standard desktop keyboard. I have never used jaws on a laptop. So I have to admit my ignorance in that department. I have looked at the keystrokes and they seem like much much much more combining of keystrokes.
The HP mentioned is very good. I have it's 'ugly' brother a Compaq presario 2100 which I bought for $799.95 with the same more or less specifications. Whatever u buy do not buy a Toshiba satelite. I had a bad experience with it's hard drive and sound card.
If you want to work with a desktop computer's keyboard, you have to add it to the laptop for it to work. It might be slower, but it is better than nothing.
i got a p4 2.8, 256 meg, and a 40 gb hd for £740.
it really depends on what you will be using it for, so you would expect to pay less for word than for a laptop for music.
if you want to use one for word, pc world (in the uk) will do you:
p4 1.5
256 meg
20 gb hd.
but have a look on ebay, i saw the same laptop that i got on there for £450, but i wanted something new.
b3n.
My favorite places to look are www.circuitcity.com (under "this week's special) and on BestBuy, also possibly on Buy.com (BestBuy has their own credit card and so does Circuit City). You often get very very good deals if you tolerate the mail-in rebate stuff. If you have someone who can help you photo copy and send in the mail-in rebate forms you can often make $300 to $400 off of the price, it's such a pain in the you-kn-w-what that people really don't want to do it which is why you can get a good deal if you have someone suffer through it with ya. I got an Acer TravelMate for my sister and it's proven a great laptopt, got a Compaq too and it's been ok, not as good (it was $799 actually, and perfectly fine for my dad, the cd-rw drive works great). AMD is ok, Intel are slightly faster (at least in the tests I've seen) but nothing you'd ever notice, I'd recommend you have 256mb of ram no matter what, Jaws and Windows XP both eat up Ram so 256 will keep you confortable. Look for laptop reviews on Google, they often have stats about battery life and such like, whatever feature is important to you.
Good luck
-B
Going back to the keyboard thing, I think it's possible to buy external numeric keypads, which should give you all your Jaws hotkeys. I don't know much about them, because I don't use either Jaws or laptops very much, but from what I've heard and experienced, this arrangement should work.
about the ram, mine had 256, and i'm thinking of upgrading it to 512.
but 256 is fine for work.
also, if it don't have a fdd, don't get the shops one, they go on ebay, some new from £5 to £19.99 (pc world tried to make me pay £29!).
i have used two laptops in my life, and they have both been dell's. i don't like them.. for some, they may have had no problems but problems is about all I've had. We have a Compaq Presario desktop and I like it fine. The laptops have both been used for notetaking and such in school. They are loaned, but especially the older one is a total piece of junk. The new one seems a little better but not much.
Just my thoughts.
In Him,
Dixie