Laptops for College

Music4life

My Budgets between 500-700euro.
I need it for college work.Sound Recording,Music,Videos,internet,e-mail,Word processing,DVD+/-RW,A decent hard drive etc.
Mobily isnt important.I'd like to have a good warranty.
Im not too happy with HP Pavillion because I hear the power supply has a tendency to breakdown & cant be repaired.Im told Acer & Dell are my best option.

Thanks

AmyG

Music4life wrote: »

My Budgets between 500-700euro.
I need it for college work.Sound Recording,Music,Videos,internet,e-mail,Word processing,DVD+/-RW,A decent hard drive etc.
Mobily isnt important.I'd like to have a good warranty.
Im not too happy with HP Pavillion because I hear the power supply has a tendency to breakdown & cant be repaired.Im told Acer & Dell are my best option.

Thanks

Acer all the way stay away from dell!!!

Music4life

Why not dell?

cheekay

i just bought the sony Vaio NR 38. It was 1200 a few eeks back got it for just over 500 today.lovely computer.thought the harddrive is smaller than what i hoped for (160 gb rather than 250) the processor is good and i got the guy to throw in a reduced price external hard drive so im happy

Music4life

Where did you pick up that sounds good?

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cheekay wrote: »

i just bought the sony Vaio NR 38. It was 1200 a few eeks back got it for just over 500 today.lovely computer.thought the harddrive is smaller than what i hoped for (160 gb rather than 250) the processor is good and i got the guy to throw in a reduced price external hard drive so im happy

Where did you get that?

Tom Dunne

AmyG wrote: »

Acer all the way stay away from dell!!!

Music4life wrote: »

Why not dell?

Every so often, you will get an utterly uninformed post like that. Possibly because a friend of a friend's uncle's cat bought one and it took more than one minute to open Microsoft Word.

Dell are fine. Like all manufacturers, they have a percentage that have problems, and like all manufacturers, they have warranties and support structures. So, ignore ill-informed nonsense like that and give Dell some consideration.

What exactly does sound recording involve? If it is simply a case of a line in, then most, if not all laptops will have one.

If it requires specialist hardware, then expect to pay a premium for it.

Music4life

Well im going too be learning how too record in college.Maybe using protools.Dont exactly know what ill need for that.No I dont think ill need hardware.

Cormic

Tom Dunne wrote: »

Every so often, you will get an utterly uninformed post like that. Possibly because a friend of a friend's uncle's cat bought one and it took more than one minute to open Microsoft Word.

Totally agree. All companies have failures. I am happily typing this on my Latitude D420 while my wife is using my old D400. Apart from the D400 battery gradually going south (which happens with all batteries) I have not had any problems.

I have friends that own them and never had problems and I have had friends that have and have got them resolved. Some of them had hassle getting repaired some of them did not.

Ajoe

Another vote for Dell here. Any laptop which looks very flashy/stylish are generally hard to work on (eg Sony & Acer). Dell's & HP's business lines are very robust, good support & relatively easy to source/swap-out failed parts.

4Xcut

Another vote for Dell here.

However, get the cheapest suppport you can from them and keep the rest in case anything goes wrong and you have to get it fixed. They still provide a basic warrenty on parts, just you loose the privilage of listening to a nice indian chap reading from a script.

Dell are good if you want to buy what they sell - good, reliable, cheap, laptops with poor tech support. But you won't beat them on price really.

yop

AmyG wrote: »

Acer all the way stay away from dell!!!

Post of the month :rolleyes:

Since December of last year over 40 laptops have passed through my hands and out of that I had 1 which needed to be fixed, so personally I would recommend the Dells.

Have a look at the Inspirion 1525 or the Vostros on the Business section of the Dell website. May not have a webcam though

Music4life

Cheers lads i ordered a dell