[kwlug disc.] looking for techie thoughts on laptops

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

Why buy for that price celeron AND refurbished, when you can buy new for
the same price?

http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10108457&catid=

http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10107468&catid=

Laptops tend to break easier and not easy to replace parts, so the
difference
for a new one for warranty is worth it. Even buying extended warranty to
cover a couple more years is worth it too. One battery replacement and it
pays for itself.

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>wrote:

>
>  not strictly speaking a linux question but, given the abundance of
> HW expertise out there, i thought i'd ask, anyway.
>
>  a friend is sending her son off to college this fall, and needs to
> get him a laptop.  i pointed her at tigerdirect.ca and told her to
> poke around.  she came back asking about an acer celeron-based laptop
> for $640. celeron.  gack.  so i suggested she check out a refurbished
> gateway, of which i have a number and all of which have behaved pretty
> well so far.
>
>  it appears that you can get pretty decent deals on refurbed gateways
> these days.  i mean, there's this:
>
>
> http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3945800&CatId=3444
>
>  and this:
>
>
> http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3887566&CatId=2289
>
>  and if the son is willing to accept a smaller screen, this with
> 64-bit AMD CPU:
>
>
> http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3901460&CatId=1902
>
>  thoughts on, say, the tradeoff between an intel duo core, and an AMD
> turion?  beyond that, getting at least 2G of RAM and at least 160G of
> HD seems adequate.
>
> rday
> --
>
>
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>
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