Whats a good brand laptop to buy from a price range of $200- $400?
I will use the laptop for: games,movies and school work.
Is HP any good?
Thanks for any replies.
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BTT: I think Asus and Samsung are good brands
At that price range, Acer or Asus are probably a good bet.
Eesh, I was gonna say that I play games on my laptop all the time, but not for $200-$400. All I can tell you is that I have an HP, and while it works well most of the time, it hasn’t worked as well as any other computer I’ve ever owned. For example, games running on the original build of Source crash violently and repeatedly, the auto-update feature has never worked, and HP didn’t see fit to give me a windows reinstall disk, so if I were to need to reformat, I would have to do so from a recovery partition (which eats up 12 gigs of the already inadequate hard drive and isn’t user-accessible).
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ITT: GoaT bitches about HP.
You’re not going to be gaming on a $400 laptop.
With that established, in my mind you’ll do pretty well getting a used thinkpad on craigslist, not the best specs, but respectable, and built to last. Plus the abso-fucking-lutely best keyboard of any laptop out there. Including macs.
In your price range, probably Asus is a good bet. I have no idea about samsung.
Otherwise, lenovo makes decent laptops, ideapads are ok I guess, New thinkpads are going to cost a good bit though, kind of out the question. They last longer than any other computer that I’ve seen though, far after their hardware is obsolete. I have a 3.1 thinkpad and a 95 thinkpad, still run perfectly, apart from their batteries. Oldest computers that I’ve ever used, besides an MSDOS “laptop” gathering dust in my dad’s closet.
This.
I dropped 2 grand on my laptop (Canadian, so a lot less American) last June. It runs great, but gaming isn’t a high point. It runs everything, but nothing spectacularily. So don’t expect to get anything out of a $400 laptop.
god tier:
lenovo, sony, dell
average tier:
gateway, asus, toshiba
shit tier:
hp, acer
Fix’d
protip: laptops are generally not meant for gaming.
Seriously, look at alienware “gayming laptop”. Look at it’s size. It’s the fucking desktop.
https://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-alienware-m17x?c=us&l=en&s=dhs
Gateway, Toshiba, and Lenovo have always given me problems of various kinds, but i have yet to find anything unusual about an HP.
We use HP at work for our servers, desktops and laptops and I’ve always found the lappys to be reliable, although I’ve never really used one with a decent laptop video card (oxy moron?) so I don’t know how they fare in that regard.
Unfortunately you’re going to have to drop a lot of money in to a lappy if you want it to be able to play current gen games decently. It’s just not what they’re made for.
lol Alienware
I used to want an Alienware desktop on my 15th birthday. Now though, this is just ridiculous.
fun fact: alienware = dell
So in practice, your “fix’d” was completely useless.
HP’s stuff is indeed unbreakable, but it’s shit in general, it’s hard to find an hp laptop with any decent parts for the same price as the competitors. I think the prices are almost as bad as sony vaio prices.
Oh gee, I forgot about that.
Still, Dell ain’t got that alien head made full of win
Alienware is hugely overpriced. All it has is the “gaming laptop” brand on it, and kids go apeshit about getting something that will run their games.
I guess experiences with laptops differ. My dad works for IBM/lenovo and my sis and i brought thinkpad laptops from the company. I brought my shitty thinkpad like in 2003 and the thing always breaks down every year for me and my sis. I take good care of it yet the mofo still breaks down on me… i want to kill its family including the children :3
Hmmm i want to change the price range from $200-300 anything good?
You’re pretty much fucked.
Laptops cost real money, unless you want a used one(can’t really say much, just make sure it’s hard drive isn’t dead and the battery holds at least 2h of charge) or a netbook, in which case go asus (and go HDD, not ssd)…
Which model do you have? I’m talking T series, I wouldn’t really go R/SL series, maybe W if you need a workstation… (My T42 has survived several 5 foot falls. Gotta love titanium cases.)
Go on craigslist or ebay and try to scope out something used. Most of the time it’s people trying to sell their computer for way more then it’s worth, but sometimes you can get good deals.
I had about four thinkpads and they were all overused because people thought they were immortal, one had a cracked screen, the other had a cracked keyboard, the third one had no battery and the last one had a broken ram slot.
The best laptop I’ve had is a toshiba because it had a geforce 5200 that was surprisingly very overclockable. I clocked it high enough that I could play any source game at 60fps.
And it’s battery lasted for at least 4 hours.
Ok, Dell laptops ive never really liked. desktops on the other hand, dell all the way, but not for laptops, at least not for gaming. my dell laptop i was never impressed with its gaming capabilities.
HP laptops, i despise. for any sort of use. HP loads their laptops up with so much crap that you dont need and yells at you if you try to get rid of it, and in the end slow down everything. plus you can get equal capability for less money elsewhere ive found
Sony is good, i like sony, except for sony’s prices… which is why i have never owned a sony laptop. they are expensive (very nice, but very expensive)
personally, i say Toshiba is the way to go. i have a Toshiba i use for school work / gaming (more for gaming, my dell is for school) ive had no complaints about it, its not overloaded with crap programs like HP, its very functional and happy and it isnt ridiculously expensive like sony. however i dont see very much from any brand in your price range that will be all that great at gaming.