Help choosing laptop, transferring data

myself | 10/22/07 | me

[stylin19a]

absolutley...or he could just leave the data on the portable and use it that way.

[ThePythonicCow]

What laptop? That question keeps coming up here.

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From In the market for a laptop. Post 9 of 9:

I made a couple of posts in response to a similar question, on the thread COMPUTER HELP-Looking to buy a laptop computer..

Here's copies of what I posted. See this thread for more discussion.

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I'd recommend first choosing the retailer, not the laptop. In particular, I recommend DiscountLaptops.com. They have consistently had extremely high ratings from ResellerRatings.com over the years.

The brand that DiscountLaptops sells the most of is Sager, which is little known. They are a major manufacturer of high end gaming laptops under other brand names, such as Alienware.

So I'd go to the DiscountLaptops site and choose based on features and price.

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Dell gets a rating of 4.37 on ResellerRatings.com, on a scale of 10. DiscountLaptops gets a lifetime rating of 9.98. Dell works by driving down their parts and manufacturing costs, and covering for the resulting lower quality with a good replacement warranty. Better to have quality hardware to start with, and still get a good warranty, as Sager Notebook, the primary laptop manufacturer supplying to DiscountLaptops, does.

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Bump on the memory recommendation. Not even 512 Mb is enough. I've got a Toshiba laptop, and its got 768 Mb, and it is barely enough. If I open more than a couple of apps, it gets dog slow, terribly slow. I'd go for 1 Gb for any Windows XP or Mac OS laptop (or desktop for that matter), at a minimum.

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Newegg is the only way to go

Yes - I am a big fan of Newegg.com. Anytime I know what I want, I buy there.

But in cases like this, where I don't know just what I want, a place such as DiscountLaptops.com is better, since it guides one to good choices.

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From Vanity: FReeper TechnoGeeks-Computer Advice Needed! Post 19 of 19:

The other supplier of pre-built PC's that has long had, and still has, an excellent ResellerRatings.com rating is

• ECS Envision Computer Systems, with a current rating of 9.90

The two top rated laptop vendors for a long time now have been and continue to be

• PowerNotebooks.com, with a perfect 10.00 rating, and
• DiscountLaptops.com, with an excellent 9.86 rating.

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

Thanks for the great advice, everyone. Freepers ARE the greatest!

[Echo Talon]

no problem, and good luck.. remember you want to "copy & paste" your precious data off the old hard drive and not cut and paste it... its safer that way.

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[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

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