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First and foremost - I'm in the market for a laptop. There is no way in hell I'm dragging my shitty-ass desktop out with me, and my mom has offered to buy me a laptop. Which means I have to pick one out. She's got someone who's a Toshiba vendor and can get us pretty good prices, but I've been hearing mixed things about Toshiba when it comes to laptops. I'm also looking into ThinkPads, as while they are truly unattractive, they're also basically indestructable, Dell, because apparently if you don't buy the cheapest system avalible (ie, aforementioned piece of shit desktop) they don't suck, and Skuld gave me the link to this place, which she's consistently heard good things about.
However, I'm looking for more suggestions/opinions about these brands (or other recs for custom places), or specific models or whatever. Doesn't have to be the OMG greatest laptop ever - looking for less than two thousand US - but something that at the very least can run Photoshop without horrible lag, and at least 60 GB harddrive, if not more. I'm not planning on gaming on this thing, although it would be nice to have the option, and it'll be my only computer on campus (other than the PC labs, anyway).
In other news, Jo is on her way home. I haven't forgotten about posting about our other adventures, but I got four and half hours of sleep and am sticky and hungry and in no mood to write it all out. I am also about to kill someone at UBC out of sheer frustration. I have to call tomorrow and have him put on my student account or something, because otherwise they won't tell him any tuition payment stuff (you know, despite the fact that he's the one paying it). I also have to apply for a work permit from Immigration if I want to do any co-op stuff (I do), which means more forms and officials glaring at me, and they close the residences for half of winter break, which means finding somewhere to stay. Argh kill it.
(And damn, I need to make myself a CrazyEyes!Crichton icon. Because he does the best crazy-eyes.)
However, I'm looking for more suggestions/opinions about these brands (or other recs for custom places), or specific models or whatever. Doesn't have to be the OMG greatest laptop ever - looking for less than two thousand US - but something that at the very least can run Photoshop without horrible lag, and at least 60 GB harddrive, if not more. I'm not planning on gaming on this thing, although it would be nice to have the option, and it'll be my only computer on campus (other than the PC labs, anyway).
In other news, Jo is on her way home. I haven't forgotten about posting about our other adventures, but I got four and half hours of sleep and am sticky and hungry and in no mood to write it all out. I am also about to kill someone at UBC out of sheer frustration. I have to call tomorrow and have him put on my student account or something, because otherwise they won't tell him any tuition payment stuff (you know, despite the fact that he's the one paying it). I also have to apply for a work permit from Immigration if I want to do any co-op stuff (I do), which means more forms and officials glaring at me, and they close the residences for half of winter break, which means finding somewhere to stay. Argh kill it.
(And damn, I need to make myself a CrazyEyes!Crichton icon. Because he does the best crazy-eyes.)
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Date: 2006-07-05 07:45 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2006-07-05 07:27 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2006-07-05 11:53 am (UTC)From:However, I've heard excellent things about the Sony Vaio. I don't own a laptop myself (never have), but friends have raved about the Vaio on several occasions.
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Date: 2006-07-05 07:24 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2006-07-05 12:20 pm (UTC)From:My dad showed me one last night--after he customized it it was really good and still under $2000-I'm just not sure what he did with what computer
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Date: 2006-07-05 07:24 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2006-07-25 03:27 pm (UTC)From:sorry about the delayed reply--been in Europe
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Date: 2006-07-07 07:26 am (UTC)From:On the other hand, I have an older Inspiron (I forget the number) that barely works, does some fairly bizarre things (like beeping loudly while booting and randomly scrolling downward without cause--problems that a complete hard drive wipe failed to fix), and runs so slowly that you think the damn thing froze. So my evaluation of Dell laptops is mixed at best. My brother has always been able to pick them up for dirt cheap at online sales though, which is why I got the newer one despite the massive suck of the older model.
. . . and that's about all I know about laptops. Sorry.
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Date: 2006-07-07 08:09 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2006-07-07 08:44 am (UTC)From:Every Dell computer I've seen has a tendency to crash. But none of them were mine, so I can't say whether they were all the cheapo models or not.
I've also borrowed a Sony Vaio a few times; not a fan, but that has more to do with the shape of it than anything else, it works all right.
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Date: 2006-07-07 06:34 pm (UTC)From:Out of all the people recomending Dell to me, the only one I know who actually uses one is my Dad, and he treats his a lot differently than me. I've had all sorts of problems with my desktop (it was the $300 model, but that doesn't mean it should destroy the CD drives or whatever it did), but if the laptops came reccomended well enough, I was willing to give it a try.