If you like sir, you could just put the money in a small pile and set fire to it.

Much better use of it than pissing it away on Acer hardware, frankly.

Any of the travelmate series are good. I just bought 2 of the 4000 series with 2gb ram.

My missus has an Aspire 5550 that is a good machine.

I have an Aspire 1703 (Desktop Replacement)

I have another 2 veriton desktop PC's

Also an early 2000 series travelmate is good if you can still get them

btw remember, computer manufacturers are like holden and ford. They are all the same but everybody will tell you how one is a piece of shit over the other.

ps stay away from Dell they are pieces of shit

That's somewhat true, but I know I've spent several hundred hours on piece of shit, cheap, nasty, awfully pieced together Acers, and about three hours total fixing busted Dells

Toshibas haven't been that far behind Acers for me either... IBM have a better record, but are generally quite pricey for a good unit.

^^^that reminds me of the 'Chasers war' segment about dell laptops blowing up.. hope they fixed the problem



Tode: get a 999bux laptop with the 100bux redemption and get a 'safe' tune on ya car with the money you save just a thought

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MY00 GT Forester with STi goodies

You've got better chances of winning lotto than having a laptop battery ignite on you.

Besides, the affected batterys were manufactured by Sony and fitted to Dell, Apple, IBM, Toshiba, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Panasonic and Sharp devices.

The Chaser was occasionally pretty funny, but not exactly an accurate news source.

Mate buy a Macbook. Case closed. Go use one, you'll be very impressed.

Macbook ftw....its definitely going to be my next laptop. After using my friends Macbook Pro, I'm converted.

If you wanna stick with something non-Apple, Dell laptops. Never had any problems with mine, and a few friends with Dell's have had the same experience...and they are damn cheap for the features you get! Spare parts are also dirt dirt cheap for them if you ever do need them i.e. plastics, etc. I wore my keyboard out after 3 years of hardcore usage, and it cost me 16 dollars for a new one!!! New batteries for them are also quite cheap.

The new Inspiron 640m with 2ghz Core 2 Duo processor, 60gb SATA 7200rpm drive (or 100gb 5400rpm drive for the same price), high definition screen and 1gb ram can be had for well under 2500 bucks! Its also very light, and small. You can configure a 640m with slightly less features, for under 2k.

HP Pavillion dv2000.

Awesome value for money - Had mine about 2-3 months now with no problems thus far.

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you mirin?

I'll be in the market for a new system next year, tossing up whether to go a Macbook Pro or a pimped 24" iMac. It's a close race right now, but I won't be getting myself another Windows box.

I have a MacBook Pro and a Mac Mini, both are awesome machines but this is a Looking for a decent laptop thread for $1500. That will buy him maybe the apple logo of a macbook