Windows 8
12 Gig
1 month or 2
It Rocks lol....Good speed and processing
Nothing yet



What all would you be doing on it?

I mostly play on the net.....surfing, also have my own forum so I do graphics for that.....but store them in PB and Picasa. My DH needs excel for his accounts........and I need word for my work stuff. I also want photo storage and good documents storage. .....but I think for the most part we're just normal users. Nothing fancy.

And Michael Dell is a right wing hack who makes billions shipping jobs overseas. Avoid like the plague!

Plus when I see a Dell, it's usually in a doctor's office. Yuck.

Love this laptop. Probably the best I've ever had.

New or used. No, they're not shiny pretty. They're tough, reliable workhorses.

Personally, I buy used machines. I've had this refurbished T60 (released 2006) for a year and it's still going strong. I got it for less than $100, slapped a 500GB hard drive in it, installed Windows 7 and it works like a charm.

I have a 560X (released in 1997) that works as well as it did the day I got it (used) in 2001.

I've been researching, reading reviews and browsing Amazon and I think I've narrowed it down between a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E535 and a Toshiba Satillite Professional C850. Both with Windows 7, both with 4GB and both 15.6 inch.

Just put your finger on it and give it a wiggle. With it, you can move the cursor to a desired place and then use the left/right buttons just below the keyboard to left-click/right-click. The Trackpoint, in combination with the left-right buttons, takes the place of trackpads and plugin mouses. You can even download software from the Lenovo site to disable the trackpad so it won't get in the way of your wrist when you use the eraser mouse.

People either love or hate the red button. I love it. I find it much more intuitive to use it as my pointing device than a mouse and I despise trackpads.

Last march I got a I-5, 4 gigs ram, 500 gig slow hard drive, 14" screen, blue ray burner, usb 3.0, for $301.22. It was still windows 7 and they had switched over to windows 8, so it was on clearance. I wiped the hard drive and put Kubuntu on it. It just works great. It is a little on the hefty side. If money was no object I'd get a lighter one with an SSD drive. I was going to put an
SSD drive on this one but it hasn't bugged me enough to bother.

If you don't want to spring for the SSD, then pay some attention to the speed of the HD as well as the size (7200 is better than 5400).

Here's one thing you should know. There is a new version of intel chips called Haswell coming out right now. So you may start seeing the current generation of laptops drop in price. Be careful that you aren't paying a premium price for an Ivy Bridge processor which is on the way out. If you get a good deal on an Ivy Bridge great. If it is the same price get the Haswell because it is better on battery life. It may not be easy to tell. They may call Ivy Bridge "3rd generation" and Haswell "4th generation." There is also Sandy Bridge "2nd generation" still around out there. Another difference is that if the laptop is using the integrated intel graphics - if it doesn't have a dedicated graphics card - then the later the generation the more advanced the integrated graphics.

If you are putting some money in, look for IRIS graphics, matte 1080p display. For good money economy come down from there.

Its a personal issue, but I'd stay away from windows 8. That's just an opinion.

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Got my vote!

I think Windows 8 is a spawn of Vista . . .

just sayin'

That's why I searched for a new 'puter with Windows 7.

And I'm happy I did so.

CC

and love it. The only thing I dislike is that Apple doesn't put CD drives in any of their computers anymore.
I also love the financing (with no interest) that Amazon offers with their store card. I didn't buy mine that way, but I did for my daughter. Even if money isn't a concern why not use other people's money and earn interest (such as it is these days) on your own.

amazon.com/financing

It just works and I haven't missed the cd drive at all.

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1. What brand do you have?

Dell Inspiron 15R

2. What Operating system does it have?

Windows 7 with all the upgrades (heard bad things about 8 so avoided it)

3. How much memory?

8 gigs Ram

4. How old is yours? How's it holding up?

Brand new

5. What do you like about it?

It works fine!

6. What sucks about it?

Nothing yet



Other questions you might want to ask

How much storage (Hard Drive) ?

Mine is 900 gig.

Processor Speed ?

Mine is 1.8 Mhz( megahertz) with a boost to 2.5 on demand.

Screen size?

Mine is 15.6"

Does it have HDMI? (capability to hook up to big screen TVs)

Mine does

How many USB ports, of what family?

Mine has 4, all USB 3.0

and all sorts of other goodies.

I'm happy with it.



CC

I put an 8 gig solid state hard drive in it, and 512 meg memory.

It chokes on full screen video, otherwise it works just fine.

It runs Debian (net install) with LXDE.

I won't touch Microsoft or Apple computers for less than $40 an hour.

1. What brand do you have?
Toshiba Satellite
2. What Operating system does it have?
Windows 8...so far, I don't hate it, just find it aggravating, but use the desktop most of the time.
3. How much memory?
6 GB
4. How old is yours? How's it holding up?
1 week, so far so good
5. What do you like about it?
Powerful, fast, only weighs 5.3 lbs. I play a lot with Photoshop and it runs the program without any issues. I bought the
laptop at Office Depot. It was on sale and I got a really terrific deal...that was really nice. Office Depot has been running
really good specials lately.
6. What sucks about it?
So far, nothing really. Windows 8 is different but I haven't had any real issues with it. I do use the desktop. Don't like
photos are accessed, just may be I'm not familiar enough with how to use it yet.

Love this laptop.

Intel i5 2.4 Ghz, 2 gb RAM, 32 bit, Windows 7. I bought it almost 3 years ago and it is holding up pretty good.