doublejj's BIG 2015 adventure.....

nuggs

nuggs

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Mohican said:
@nuggs - Get a Toshiba laptop. They are the best. $800 will get you a great model. We returned two other brands in two days from the $400 dollar range. Not worth the trouble. The Toshiba is rock solid and fast!
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Thats what I have Mo. Got it at best buy 2 years ago. Came with windows 8.1 .. I had bought the protection plan with the geek squad. the hard drive went out so they sent it back east for repair. came back with windows 8 . I just did 150 updates this morning. so I'll see how it works now. seems to be ok,if not i'll install 8.1 . it is a great laptop. that's why I didn't want to buy another one.
 
doublejj

doublejj

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Mohican said:
@nuggs - Get a Toshiba laptop. They are the best. $800 will get you a great model. We returned two other brands in two days from the $400 dollar range. Not worth the trouble. The Toshiba is rock solid and fast!
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I do the opposite. I buy a cheap laptop $300-$400 and when it gets corrupted after a year or 2 I buy a new one. Just don't keep anything important on it...disposable like a bic lighter
 
nuggs

nuggs

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I understand that JJ and you might be right. especially using RIU . I'm just trying to get my moneys worth on this one. My geek squad warrenty is up tomarrow on the 27th. They wanted 477. to renew the protection plan. can you believe that ? So when this go's out next time I'm going back to a desktop. I can get a dell tower for 400 and some change. I already have the other pieces. monitor speakers cordless mouse and keyboard.
 
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757growin

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nuggs said:
I understand that JJ and you might be right. especially using RIU . I'm just trying to get my moneys worth on this one. My geek squad warrenty is up tomarrow on the 27th. They wanted 477. to renew the protection plan. can you believe that ? So when this go's out next time I'm going back to a desktop. I can get a dell tower for 400 and some change. I already have the other pieces. monitor speakers cordless mouse and keyboard.
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Lols that's what my wife did. My laptop is hooked up to a old large screen monitor with some speakers on the side. Lols. Too much going on it confuses me so I hack away on the phone.
 
Mohican

Mohican

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You need 16GB of ram with Windows 8. Nothing comes with 16GB of ram! You are luck if you get 8.

The two cheapies we bought wouldn't even boot! We just got it for my wife to play internet games and facebook.

The fan on our Lenovo was sounding like a mack truck. We opened up the case and cleaned the fan. It ran quiet for another 2 months and started again. It also took 20 minutes to shut down. The new Toshiba is silent and lightning fast :)

Watch for specials at Frys and Micro Center. Get one with an SSD hard drive. They boot almost instantly!
 
Mad Hamish

Mad Hamish

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Mohican said:
You need 16GB of ram with Windows 8. Nothing comes with 16GB of ram! You are luck if you get 8.

The two cheapies we bought wouldn't even boot! We just got it for my wife to play internet games and facebook.

The fan on our Lenovo was sounding like a mack truck. We opened up the case and cleaned the fan. It ran quiet for another 2 months and started again. It also took 20 minutes to shut down. The new Toshiba is silent and lightning fast :)

Watch for specials at Frys and Micro Center. Get one with an SSD hard drive. They boot almost instantly!
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16 gigs of ram 3.6 i7 8gigs graphics silent case etc, cost me around what would be 1000 US Dollars... when it comes to computers it pays off to just Max out completely. If you want to go mobile but have all the juice you could possibly need MSI's gaming laptops are a brilliant deal. Pretty too.
 
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