Laptop Suggestions

No, the computer just has to be purchased from Best Buy. I would get another Toshiba, but I dislike all of their new designs and they've stopped making mine. My Toshiba was abused..the poor little thing. It had taken quite a few tumbles from my couch, but that time it landed wrong and took a hit.

I think the only thing I like about HPs are their aesthetic appeal. They look pretty, but I haven't really ever heard good things about them.

Hey! I joined the Apply vortex when I got my 3rd gen iPod nano. It's about 4 years old and it's still going strong!

And the warranty I'm talking about is a warranty provided by Best Buy that, as I was told by the Geek Squad guy when I took my laptop in, covers everything you could possibly do to destroy it. As long as they don't see tire treads, anyway. Then they just replace it.

I'm just going by what the BF has told me. Just don't get an Acer/eMachines. I bought one a few summers ago and it bummed out on me after only a few months.

I agree! Acer and especially the eMachine brand are horrible quality. I have an Acer laptop right now and it's already been sent away two times, and I baby everything of mine. Sigh. What garbage, last time I ever try to save a few bucks and go for the cheaper brand...

I think we have an Acer desktop at home. Or at least the monitor. I rarely use it because of my laptop, but I don't think we've ever had a problem with it.

But good thing Best Buy only has a small selection of Acers that I passed over because they were mostly little netbooks.

Their monitors are fine, it's the actual hard drives that are not worth a penny. Absolute junk!

DItto!!!! My friend has an acer laptop... ouffff, there's a reason why they are the cheapest laptops on the market.

Hahaha. Good thing I never considered them. They look a bit sketchy from the outside. When snooping at Best Buy, I skipped over the ones that looked cheap and sketchy. They were mostly Acers. A couple of the HPs looked really sketchy. I'm not much of an HP fan anyway, so those got passed.

Asus is a very reliable company. They have been establishing themselves as a all around business/gaming/leisure computer company for a few years now. I have an Asus desktop, and I don't regret buying it at all. Same for Asus notebooks. Well worth the value, and also very very reliable.
In comparison to a VAIO, Asus has as much reliability, just for a lower price. Maybe not as much power, but to me, VAIO's are a bit overrated unless you need extreme power to just type a Word doc.
If you're looking at a notebook for leisure and school work, stick to a Dual Core, with about 2-4GB DDR2(or 3) RAM, and about 250-500GB HD. If you are going to watch a lot of videos, or do graphic design or game, I would be looking at a Asus with an AMD graphics card(not bottom of the barrel).

Thanks.

I don't need a graphics card for anything at the moment. I don't game or anything. If I do happen to like Graphic Communications in school, then I might have an issue, but I have a feeling it won't be my niche either.

The one I'm looking at has a 4GB RAM and 640GB HD, which is WAY more than I need. I take a ton of pictures and have a decent amount of music, but it only took up 50% of my 320GB HD in my old laptop.

You are welcome.
You can never go wrong with more RAM or a large HD, especially if you take photos. =) I'm that way myself- running a Dual Core Asus Desktop with 4GB DDR3 RAM and a 1TB HD. More isn't a bad thing!

Sounds like you've picked out a good one, Asus is really good about their quality.