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[mllelaurel]

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.

Comments

[amet.livejournal.com]

The problem you're stuck with here is that there's just no such thing as an indestructible laptop, they just don't have the shelf life of their desk-y counterparts.

That said, my whole family owns Dells, laptops and desktops, and we've only really had problems with the ones my brother gets his hands on long enough to spyware up. I'd rec them a thousand times over for being both cheap and pretty durable (my old Inspiron lasted through about four, five years of torment). My personal experience warns against Toshiba, as my very first laptop came from them and it snapped in half a year in after a long, painful battle with the sound system (that liked to crash and leave a giant florescent VOLUME marker written across my screen at all times). HP is also not a favorite of mine, as Sephy's desktop was from them and their service is awful. The thing lasted forever, but it never seemed to want to run any of her problems properly after the first couple of years. >>;;

Anyway, that's my $.02

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

Spyware's actually another excellent point. A friend suggested I back up my stuff and reformat the harddrive before going out to buy a whole new machine, and it sounds like a damn fine idea to me.

HPs are evil. My first computer was one. One day, I turned it on and it told me it no longer had a D-drive. Nuff said.