Need PC laptop recommendation

jillianmb · May 2010

Our PC is dying. We have a MacBook which we love, but DH needs a PC for a certain program that won't run on a Mac. The dying one is a Dell Inspiron and we were not impressed with it. Any recommendations? Budget wise, trying to stay under $750.

Deeder522 · May 2010

I can't help with any suggestions but I think you should be able to find a a resonable laptop for under $700. Would the program that your Dh needs to run work if you were able to boot a mac as a PC? I know you can make a mac boot as a windows machine and there are also programs that will let you run windows OS virtualy on the mac too.

jillianmb · May 2010

Deeder522:
I can't help with any suggestions but I think you should be able to find a a resonable laptop for under $700. Would the program that your Dh needs to run work if you were able to boot a mac as a PC? I know you can make a mac boot as a windows machine and there are also programs that will let you run windows OS virtualy on the mac too.

Yes that would work, but the cost of buying a second macbook and all the stuff to boot it as a PC is high. Plus why buy a mac if we are just going to use it like a PC, you know?

adreajoy713 · May 2010

I was going to recomend the Dell...It's the brand that I've had the best luck with. DH and my sister have HP laptops that are a few years old. They are both very happy with theirs.

Deeder522 · May 2010

jillianmb:
Deeder522:
I can't help with any suggestions but I think you should be able to find a a resonable laptop for under $700. Would the program that your Dh needs to run work if you were able to boot a mac as a PC? I know you can make a mac boot as a windows machine and there are also programs that will let you run windows OS virtualy on the mac too.
Yes that would work, but the cost of buying a second macbook and all the stuff to boot it as a PC is high. Plus why buy a mac if we are just going to use it like a PC, you know?

Totally get you on that. I guess the only thing I can think of is also check craigslist for computers. I have found some good finds on there.

LBethG · May 2010

DH has a Toshiba Satellite that he loves. He's had it for about a year and so far he hasn't had any issues. We both previously had Dells that we didn't like.

Desmond&MollyJones* · May 2010

Dells are AWFUL. I wish people would stop buying that crap so Dell would just go out of business already. Stick out tongue

I have an HP which I really like, but I have heard that HP is notorious for having bad motherboards. My motherboard went bad about 6 weeks before the warranty was up. I would have been livid if it went bad after. It would have cost about $450 to have it replaced, and I only paid about $650 for the computer itself.

Before my HP I had an Acer which I loved (and still do.) It still runs pretty great and I've had it for 6.5 years.

Tz's_Bride_2B · May 2010

We have a Toshiba Satellite that we have been really impressed with. It was also rated really well by Consumer reports.

MissyNa · May 2010

I have a HP that I love! My husband just bought an Asus. So far he likes it. Oh. Ben just told me there's a laptop on Newegg.com that's $600 after rebates. It's a HP Pavilion Model number DV6-2150US. (Yeah, he's done a lot of computer research lately. LOL!) He said that there's a few others on there that are reasonably priced depending on what you need.

jillianmb · May 2010

Thank you so much for all this advice! I also asked this question on FB and got similar responses: bad reviews for Dell, great reviews for HP and a few good comments about Acer.

I'm going to do some more research on HP and Acer.

THANKS!

LVila · May 2010

I loved my Dell laptop. The H buys Dells for his work ALL the time. He has a different point of view b/c he gets a corporate customer service number and gets right through to an English speaking tech support person. I'd buy Dell over HP, but my mom has gotten some TERRIBLE HPs.

I have an Asus Eee PC netbook. We bought an extra 1GB of RAM and an external DVD-ROM. It's 3lbs of awesomeness.

Have fun with the new computer!

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