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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.

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[thesleepingkat.livejournal.com]

I'm on the don't buy HP train--don't know about other computers but when I am able to I'm getting Anything But HP. Could be my model, but both my old roommate and I had the same kind of HP computer and different things have gone wrong. I've gone through 2 harddrives in the past 2-3 years, a battery, and it overheats constantly--and if you don't get extended warranty fear HP service prices. LoL. Whatever you get, go for the warrenty.

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I, um... third the No HPs motion. They are of the crap.