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So. My laptop is a piece of shit. It won't play DVDs anymore. It freezes up when faced with anything more challenging than a pageful of plain text. It won't defrag completely.

Conclusion? I need to buy a new computer stat, before I can't access the internet anymore and thus am rendered incapable of buying said new computer.

Discuss.

Basically, I need to know what laptops qualify as non-shitty. My bare qualifications are: DVD player/burner; able to connect to the internet; more harddrive space than my current 55 gigs.

I'm none-too-fond of the Mac interface, but if I'm given assurances that Macs are less likely to break the hell down, it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

Cheap would be nice, as I need an external harddrive and/or an ipod to move all my junk onto. I can't think of another way to transfer it from one harddrive to another, but then I'm no expert.

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I'd prefer to buy something that lasts. But if it costs over $2000 - or over $1500, really, I simply won't have that option.

I'm not sure. Considering half the student body have Macs and there are Macs in the computer lab, it shouldn't be a huge problem. In theory, anyway.

Awww, your computer sounds adorable!

I'm going to have a lot of discussions with my parents, who'd have to help me finance this endeavour, so taking time is a good thing.

I'll definitely be getting an iPod. External hard drive may have to wait. I just googled the price of the things and oi...

Thank you!

We got our external harddrive for 60.00 at Wal-mart. What are you googling?

My google search was "external harddrive". It came up with prices like $350. Those were the recommended brands, but still.

Are you interested? It sounded like you needed one right now, but if you're willing to wait, having someone I can sell the old one to would go a long way towards acquiring the new one. I'll need to get a way to appraise it, but it certainly won't cost as much as a new one and should last for some time if you're primarily using it for movies/writing/Internet. I just can't guarantee anything yet, but it's a possibility.

I might even be bringing it over on Sunday so I can use the bus ride to study.

If you get an iPod (and they come big), you shouldn't need an external HD at all. :) (You should still CD-backup up movies, TV episodes, and other files you're not going to actually edit -- external HD's can crash too. Use them for things like documents, pictures, and things you'll need to access frequently and edit.)

There's no gigantic emergency - just annoyance. I've talked to my mom, and plan to do more talking, but for now she's pretty adamant about getting a brand new computer.

Most of the stuff on my harddrive is movies, episodes and the like. Downloading is my happy shiny friend. I'm trying to burn off as much as I can.

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