Help picking a laptop!please help laptop owners?

Rhonda G

Ok I need a laptop for school work and I need a longer battery 3 hours or more and it needs to be under $700
please help

I need all the help I can get
also tell what brand you have
thanks

Answer
I can help you choose a laptop, but firstly you'lll have to give me a little more detail as to how you will be using it.

For example, does your schoolwork involve creating word documents and/or spreadsheets? Or are you taking lessons in music or media which may involve working with music production or video editing?

Secondly, are you intending to have a secondary use for the laptop, for example use at home after school hours, or will it be purely for working at school?

I live in England so I'm going to have to round down your price into Pound Sterling's, which means your $700 would equate to roughly £420 at the current exchange rate. This is more than enough to buy a laptop with a battery life capable of 4 hours and over if you are looking to just simply do basic web surfing and word processing.

I'd recommend a Dell Inspiron 17, incredibly good value for money, with all the specifications you ask - even if you are doing media creation, and it comes below your budget price at a cheap £369 ($608).

I paste the link below as a reference.

I hope this helps.

What is the best laptop for audio and video production on limited budget?

Crazy Carl

I'm prety much looking for the biggest bang for my buck! I would like to buy a used laptop to use for audio production and video production. Audio production is more important to be able to be done completely on (hip hop production as far as running audio program, preferably Cubase, run VSTs and other plugins smoothly for effects and instruments, and record vocals.) I would like to be able to do video production as well but more just loading videos and playback, partial editing but as far as more intensive post production can be done on pc. Platform does not matter (windows or mac). Price is more important and looking around $200 and topping out at $500. Lower the better! Battery power is my second concern and would like at least 2 hours life. Size does not matter, smaller may even be more desirable because of portability and battery life. Any suggestions? Also if possible where to get information to optimize system for audio and/or video production.

Answer
I would say you are going to be struggling pricewise to find a decent laptop for $200 for music production running the software you are talking about.

For Video you would be looking at Final Cut Pro and for Audio either Cubase, Pro Tools or Logic Studio.

My suggestion hardware wise would be for a MacBook or MacBook Pro - get one 2nd hand from Macmall or ebay if need be. You would be looking at 4GB of RAM and a base budget of $1500+ otherwise you will just be buying your self a who bunch of trouble if you go too cheap

Here is what the pros think about Macs and music production
http://www.macworld.com/article/132032/2008/02/grammys.html

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What is the perfect laptop for me?

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Ian

I need a laptop for school, and would like it to be fast, reliable, durable, and fairly portable. Besides using it for school, I need it for organizing and editing lots of music, photos, videos, and other files. I like to game sometimes, so it needs to be powerful enough to be able to handle new games set to high quality. Clearly it needs to be very powerful, however it still needs to be portable enough for me to take it anywhere. I really like macbook pro's for their quality, size, durability, and aesthetics, however I would much rather have a pc.

Answer
I actually just bought a laptop after over 10 days of looking and found a pretty cool deal for a very powerful computer. Great for a student, heck, at this price and with this power it's great for anything. At this point I couldnât be any happier with my new laptop. Thereâs a seller on Amazon called "Electronic Mind" that is selling some really powerful Acer Aspires way below retail value and has the lowest price on Amazon all together.

Here is the link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003YD9â¦

I donât know how they can sell them so cheap but I have had mine now for 2 weeks and I am very happy with my choice. Iâm playing some awesome games such as Fall Out New Vegas, Black OPâs and other cool games. Best of all all of the games play really smooth. I use this for my college classes and work as well in addition to audio engineering programs.

With Acer Aspire you canât go wrong. The laptop is wicked, I am running very strenuous programs on it such as music production software and hardcore games and it can take anything I throw at it

Why don't notebooks come with Core 2 Extreme processors ?

Rockstar D

Only gaming notebooks have a Core 2 Extreme.
Toshiba X305 has got it. Dell's XPS has got it.
Why not all new laptops ?
Wouldn't it be better than Core 2 Duo ? Even if the Laptop is used for applications like Photoshop / Video Editing and Music Productions that use heavy VSTi's and samples.

Answer
One size doesn't fit all.

I guess market research has found that most people using laptops don't require a high end device. I'm guessing the majority of laptop users are either business people that do general office work on them or students doing papers and some audio/video playback. These users may be more interested in weight/size, power efficiency, heat discharge, and other similar features. Performance is probably in there too, but not at the level that you may be thinking.

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What is the perfect laptop for me?

best laptop for video editing and music production image

Ian

I need a laptop for school, and would like it to be fast, reliable, durable, and fairly portable. Besides using it for school, I need it for organizing and editing lots of music, photos, videos, and other files. I like to game sometimes, so it needs to be powerful enough to be able to handle new games set to high quality. Clearly it needs to be very powerful, however it still needs to be portable enough for me to take it anywhere. I really like macbook pro's for their quality, size, durability, and aesthetics, however I would much rather have a pc.

Answer
I actually just bought a laptop after over 10 days of looking and found a pretty cool deal for a very powerful computer. Great for a student, heck, at this price and with this power it's great for anything. At this point I couldnât be any happier with my new laptop. Thereâs a seller on Amazon called "Electronic Mind" that is selling some really powerful Acer Aspires way below retail value and has the lowest price on Amazon all together.

Here is the link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003YD9â¦

I donât know how they can sell them so cheap but I have had mine now for 2 weeks and I am very happy with my choice. Iâm playing some awesome games such as Fall Out New Vegas, Black OPâs and other cool games. Best of all all of the games play really smooth. I use this for my college classes and work as well in addition to audio engineering programs.

With Acer Aspire you canât go wrong. The laptop is wicked, I am running very strenuous programs on it such as music production software and hardcore games and it can take anything I throw at it

Why don't notebooks come with Core 2 Extreme processors ?

Rockstar D

Only gaming notebooks have a Core 2 Extreme.
Toshiba X305 has got it. Dell's XPS has got it.
Why not all new laptops ?
Wouldn't it be better than Core 2 Duo ? Even if the Laptop is used for applications like Photoshop / Video Editing and Music Productions that use heavy VSTi's and samples.

Answer
One size doesn't fit all.

I guess market research has found that most people using laptops don't require a high end device. I'm guessing the majority of laptop users are either business people that do general office work on them or students doing papers and some audio/video playback. These users may be more interested in weight/size, power efficiency, heat discharge, and other similar features. Performance is probably in there too, but not at the level that you may be thinking.

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What is the perfect laptop for me?

best laptop for video editing and music production image

Ian

I need a laptop for school, and would like it to be fast, reliable, durable, and fairly portable. Besides using it for school, I need it for organizing and editing lots of music, photos, videos, and other files. I like to game sometimes, so it needs to be powerful enough to be able to handle new games set to high quality. Clearly it needs to be very powerful, however it still needs to be portable enough for me to take it anywhere. I really like macbook pro's for their quality, size, durability, and aesthetics, however I would much rather have a pc.

Answer
I actually just bought a laptop after over 10 days of looking and found a pretty cool deal for a very powerful computer. Great for a student, heck, at this price and with this power it's great for anything. At this point I couldnât be any happier with my new laptop. Thereâs a seller on Amazon called "Electronic Mind" that is selling some really powerful Acer Aspires way below retail value and has the lowest price on Amazon all together.

Here is the link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003YD9â¦

I donât know how they can sell them so cheap but I have had mine now for 2 weeks and I am very happy with my choice. Iâm playing some awesome games such as Fall Out New Vegas, Black OPâs and other cool games. Best of all all of the games play really smooth. I use this for my college classes and work as well in addition to audio engineering programs.

With Acer Aspire you canât go wrong. The laptop is wicked, I am running very strenuous programs on it such as music production software and hardcore games and it can take anything I throw at it

Why don't notebooks come with Core 2 Extreme processors ?

Rockstar D

Only gaming notebooks have a Core 2 Extreme.
Toshiba X305 has got it. Dell's XPS has got it.
Why not all new laptops ?
Wouldn't it be better than Core 2 Duo ? Even if the Laptop is used for applications like Photoshop / Video Editing and Music Productions that use heavy VSTi's and samples.

Answer
One size doesn't fit all.

I guess market research has found that most people using laptops don't require a high end device. I'm guessing the majority of laptop users are either business people that do general office work on them or students doing papers and some audio/video playback. These users may be more interested in weight/size, power efficiency, heat discharge, and other similar features. Performance is probably in there too, but not at the level that you may be thinking.

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