Laptop Crisis!

[sincere]

Laptops are the bane of my existence. And yet, I crave them.

refracting recommended a Vaio like this.
maladaptive recommended this Dell.
madfnorder recommended the third-party WidowPC.

I do not want to spend more than $1800 on a laptop.
I'll want to buy it over the weekend. It's a sales-tax free holiday weekend, so I'll pay no sales tax, la~

What do you think?

[Poll #790003]

If you have any nightmare stories about how Dell sent out a crew to repair your laptop and they used your drapes for handkerchiefs and ate your kitten, please share them. If you have any glowing praises about how a Vaio laptop rescued your neighbor's children from a burning building, please share them! You can also share if you want to tell me that Totally Random Computers makes a wonderful laptop that actually runs, has decent battery life, and doesn't burst into flames like my HP laptop did.

Just don't tell me about Macs.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

well, I wish i could have afforded the lenovos or a vaio, so if you can go for one of those high-end machines, do it! :D mine shouldn't be too bad though... it's got the same stats as the black macbook, like I said, which means 2gHz duo core intel processor, 512mb RAM (I'll buy more later from newegg, it's easy to upgrade yourself up to 4 delicious gb!! and they just rape you for it if you get it from the manufacturer), 80gb HD (ditto, if I need bigger I'll just buy one), not to mention more USB ports (4 lovely ports!!!! it may be almost enough!?!?), weighing apx 5-6 lbs. And a 14.1" screen WHICH I PAID EXTRA TO HAVE god wtf, how come a smaller screen costs more (at every single place?). the 12" vaios cost like 5 billion dollars. srsly like every single manufacturer I checked charged more for a screen that wasn't a massive 15"+ screen. I don't understand. >_<

it cost the same as the white macbook, which is pretty cheap btw. the similar lenovo or vaio would have cost about $300 more so yeah. XD

as for mac OSX... eh... I haven't had to work with it much and it's been pretty okay on machines belonging to my friends, but other than feeling a tragic sadness that I can't video-iChat with my friend in australia and that iTunes will never respond as fast as winamp (I'd go back and just use the winamp ipod plugin, but I'm addicted to playlists now, and let's face it, every single other music program has shitty playlists comparitively), I have zero reason to want OSX. Whereas I have lots of reasons (read: windows-only programs) to keep Mr Gates' crappy product. There was ONE program I wanted really badly to be able to run on the mac... but it's an OS9-only program and won't run on OSX anyhow. D'oh.

if i had bought the macbook I would have just installed windows and never used OSX and then I was worried about if the hardware would be compatible and such. Although I am sad about the magnetic power plug and the magnetic latch. SRSLY SO COOL ZOMG. XD

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oops that was me btw XD