My garage laptop...
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My garage laptop...
took a dump today. Well, the power supply did. It'* an older laptop, AMD 1.2MHZ, good enough for forum stuff and whatever. So, instead of scouring the internet for a new power supply, I figure I would check the local pawn shops for a decent laptop.
After 2 computer stores and 1 pawn shop, I found a HP Pavillion G7, 17"display, 500gig HDD, 4G ram, Bluetooth, full size keyboard and a QUAD core processor for $180. Come to find out after checking HP'* website, this thing is STILL under the factory 1 year warranty. 8 days left anyway. But who cares? Still even had the stickers on it.
After 2 computer stores and 1 pawn shop, I found a HP Pavillion G7, 17"display, 500gig HDD, 4G ram, Bluetooth, full size keyboard and a QUAD core processor for $180. Come to find out after checking HP'* website, this thing is STILL under the factory 1 year warranty. 8 days left anyway. But who cares? Still even had the stickers on it.
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#2
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i love hp'*. sounds like a good deal. my laptop is company purchased they keep buying pos dells even though they break all the time and i cant do my job while its getting fixed. but to the fools that buy them no sweat if i have to cal them 3 times to do major surgery during the warranty period. i buy hp'* for my desktop and usually for the wife for laptops they always last without having to mess with them at all
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Good luck I went through 3 HP laptops and a home PC in 5 years. Be careful with the hinge on the laptop, and the scenes like to go out and my wife'* power supply was replaced 4 times under warranty. I gave up on HP and bought an apple. The operating system took a little while to get used to but I like it way better.
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My recommendations are Apple and HP (at least the business models; the home stuff is hit-or-miss). I've heard good things about newer Toshibas, too.
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I've had pretty good luck with HP'*. My main computer is a HPTouchsmart 310, kids computer is HP, new laptop is HP, the media server in the basement is from a mix of HP parts lol.
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we dont have any media server but i turned the old desktop hp into a tv pc with pics on it so we could let it go on the pics screen saver, interesting when we people over
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I've heard of people doing that. Take an old 25" plasma, mount it on the wall, hook a small pc to it and turn it into a nice random picture.
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