Toshibas are decent. Honestly, anything you can get your hands on that is up to date will be nice to have. I suggest you wait untill black friday and pick yourself something up depending on what the sales are.

If you really want a steal, you might have to line up outside of best buy for a day and half and be amongst the first 10 or so people in line when they hand out vouchers the morning of black friday. Thats what I do with a group of friends every year, and we just flip whatever we can get our hands on through ebay, usually coming near doubling what we spent.

A Pentium processor (single core at that) and a GMA integrated graphics chip? Bah. That thing was outdated five years ago.


Last Edit: Oct 26, 2010 18:01:01 GMT by Josh

that link did not even take me a laptop. but based on what TS said, hes right

Where are you getting that from?



That's what you linked to processor wise.

And at this point, a single core i7 (which doesn't exist, btw) would be worse than a dual core Pentium depending on clock speed. We're to the point where clock speed doesn't matter as much as number of cores.

Not sure what the hell you are looking at. That's the link you posted (and I have tried on two different comps now)

Shoot for an i5 if you can, and specifically, an i5 quad-core instead of the dual-core one.

If you replace Sony and Apple with Toshiba and Asus, you would be correct.

So yeah, HP, Toshiba, Asus. Hard to go wrong with one of those.

I can understand Toshiba, maybe. But Asus? Never heard their name thrown out there when it comes to mid-to-high end machines.

Processor is more than likely fine, but you didn't give a product/model number for it. However, I've not really heard complaints about the processors, but it's always a good idea to search the components and read what people say about them.

He was referring to the components themselves. Never go by Best Buy, either. Always go by Newegg, CNET, or Amazon (preferably Newegg, though). Their customer bases are far more tech knowledgable and much more picky. You'll get better reviews through those three sites.

Which is why I also listed CNET and Amazon. You also have to remember that Newegg is a site for tech heads who build their own machines. I get the feeling you probably just found your machine on there, you want to search for components on Newegg (since that is their big business).

...seriously?

Asus is more low-to-mid range, isn't it?