Laptops...

[TheGuitarCock]

I am looking into getting a laptop. I have been looking around on the internet at places like Bestbuy, Circut City, Office Depot...I only need it for internet (email and getting on CockyTalk)! I would like to stay as cheep as I can...Could any of you help?

[CockynTN]

Wal mart has those with wireless that are fairly cheap......

[TheGuitarCock]

Huh?

[GapoGamecock51]

Huh?

If your willing to use Dell look up there "E" series, I have a E-1505 that wasnt extremely expensive, well I didnt buy it, but the cost wasnt to much for the person who gave it to me. Plus the Dell "E" series has some small laptops that are lightweight and can connect to the internet wirelessly.


http://www.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/inspnnb?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&redirect=1
Gapo

[cboom4250]

I am looking into getting a laptop. I have been looking around on the internet at places like Bestbuy, Circut City, Office Depot...I only need it for internet (email and getting on CockyTalk)! I would like to stay as cheep as I can...Could any of you help?


if you're looking for something cheap, go to the BestBuy and CircuitCity stores and look at the open box specials. they are great computers but were either demos or displays...they work great and they are about 40% cheaper.

also, the website edealinfo.com always has Dell deals.

[Spur's Addiction]

Check ebay for a used one if you want something cheap and all you will use it for is internet.

[cockyace]

I would also check out Tigerdirect.com. They generally have good specials.

[bjIII]

check out http://www.deals2buy.com/

[Spur]

www.apple.com

[acejrock]

if you want a good cheap laptop but dont care about future upgrades dell is a good place to go.. you can add and subtract features that you want to influence the price..

[TheGuitarCock]

Thanks...any more?

Could any of you fill me in on having the internet but not having to have the laptop plugged up or something? How do you get that>

[TheGuitarCock]

Bump..

[TaterHater1984]

lol. Like my picture? I'm going to try to take more later.

[TheGuitarCock]

YES! did you take that?

Fits well. I figured you wouldnt mind since its all for good. What other things have they done around campus for them?

[ColaCock]

I bought 2 of the same laptops about a year ago. 2 gateways from best buy...they were only $400 bucks so i couldnt pass them up...plus it was a tax free weekend. they are smaller and thin with the widescreen, has the no glare screen, and has been running great ever since.

[TheGuitarCock]

I bought 2 of the same laptops about a year ago. 2 gateways from best buy...they were only $400 bucks so i couldnt pass them up...plus it was a tax free weekend. they are smaller and thin with the widescreen, has the no glare screen, and has been running great ever since.


Thanks! Thats kinda my price range too. haha. Do you have a link or something? Oh yea, could you help me out with my question I posted above? Thanks!

[JspurW]

I have a Dell e1705 with a few upgrades, and it retails about $1200. Cheaper/smaller Inspirons will probably do what you want to do just as well as mine for about half the price. Check out Dell's website.

My only complaint is with their adapters: They are absolute utter pieces of crap. Read around the comments for the ones on their online store-average life is about 3 months before it dies for one reason or another. I highly suggest getting a modular adapter at Best Buy or something, it'll run you an extra $100 but save you $65 every 3 months.

[TheGuitarCock]

Thanks...any more?

Could any of you fill me in on having the internet but not having to have the laptop plugged up or something? How do you get that>


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[blaze]

www.geeks.com

[blaze]

Thanks...any more?

Could any of you fill me in on having the internet but not having to have the laptop plugged up or something? How do you get that>

it is called wi fi, most new laptops come with the capability built in, they might term it wireless, you will have to find some hotspots to use it in if you get it, or you can set up a wireless network up at home.

[TheGuitarCock]

it is called wi fi, most new laptops come with the capability built in, they might term it wireless, you will have to find some hotspots to use it in if you get it, or you can set up a wireless network up at home.

so when I go to bestbuy, circut city ect, ect.... they could tell me how to do that and all?

Kinda like how you can get on your aol explorer without being plugged up to the internet?

[CockyBlock]

i use a sony vaio and its great!!!!! try lookin up on www.jr.com they usually have pretty good deals

[TaterHater1984]

YES! did you take that?

Fits well. I figured you wouldnt mind since its all for good. What other things have they done around campus for them?Nah, I don't mind at all. I saw you changed it. It's nice to see someone else wanted to use it.

[TheGuitarCock]

Yea I did. still trying to find something that looks good. It would be coll if somebody made one that had like each universitys symbol on it or something with fire kinda in the back and have like Remember...

idk...just an idea

[ColaCock]

Thanks! Thats kinda my price range too. haha. Do you have a link or something? Oh yea, could you help me out with my question I posted above? Thanks!

Almost all laptops are built in with a wireless card/adapter now. If you find one that isnt, it will at least have a slot where you can insert one. At any rate, this is device that will recieve internet communication "without hooking up" to an actual router or modem. If you have a wireless network set up at home, you can connect to that...or your computer will scan for other networks in range that you can use. If you are at a motel or coffee shop or other busy part of a city...you can often pick a signal up and its free access. From my house, I usually have 4 or 5 signals I am receiving in the Shandon area...but I have my own home network that I connect to just for reliability and speed.

[TheGuitarCock]

So it lets you use the internet whereever? How do you have wireless network at home? Do you have to buy a seperate internet from your home internet?

[ColaCock]

So it lets you use the internet whereever? How do you have wireless network at home? Do you have to buy a seperate internet from your home internet?

Wireless and wired are no different except for the obvious...the wires. You have a wireless network at home by using a wireless router. It broadcasts the internet signal through the air instead of through a wire. Think of a cordless phone...except you have the ability to use anyone else's line that you can get a signal from as long as it isn't secured with a password.

If you have internet at home already and use wires, just buy a wireless router...connect one of the cables from the modem into the router...and it will broadcast the wireless signal. My laptop and my desktop are both recieving internet wirelessly. No hassle with cables and all that junk...

[TheGuitarCock]

oh okay.


Thanks.


Could you give me a list of things I would need to buy with my laptop.

so do you have to buy a whole seperate internet service with your notebook?

[ColaCock]

oh okay.


Thanks.


Could you give me a list of things I would need to buy with my laptop.

so do you have to buy a whole seperate internet service with your notebook?
If you don't have a wireless router at home, and if you want to have wireless internet in your house so that you can move your laptop around the house and still get online...get one. They will explain how to set it up, it isn't very hard.

You don't need a seperate internet service for your laptop. It's just like buying another desktop for your house...you'd just hook it right up with the wire and start surfing. Same concept...no wires. Unless you have a desktop that is wired to the modem, you can keep that wired...OR you can do what I did and go COMPLETELY wireless and get a wireless adapter for the desktop (if you have one). My desktop will never move...but I still made it wireless just so I didn't have to deal with the cables. If I do ever decide to move it, where ever it goes in the house it will be receiving the connection still.

Wait...you don't have dial-up internet, do you?

[TheGuitarCock]

nope.

[TheGuitarCock]

I mainly need it for taking my laptop places and getting online. Away from my house.

[ColaCock]

I mainly need it for taking my laptop places and getting online. Away from my house.

Then don't buy a wireless router. All you need is the laptop. If you go somewhere that has a wifi hotpot (you can look some of them up online) then your laptop will pick the signal up. Most hotels, coffee shops, and even lots of restaurants now have it for free to customers. If you are in a bigger neighborhood, you can also get a signal free sometimes. Apartment complexes are another good spot.

[TheGuitarCock]

Dont you have to have some kinda card or something?

Oh okay! Cool.

So how do I get internet on my laptop once I get it.


Because I can use my same internet service I got at home.

[ColaCock]

Dont you have to have some kinda card or something?

Oh okay! Cool.

So how do I get internet on my laptop once I get it.


Because I can use my same internet service I got at home.

If you buy a laptop, the card will be built in. You won't see it. You will just see an extra connection icon at the bottom right of the screen...it will either have an X for no signal...or it will search for signal and allow you to connect.

To get internet, you do what I said above. Or if you have a cable you just plug it in. That is all...open Firefox or IE or whatever browser you use and roll with it!

[TheGuitarCock]

Cool.


Thanks.

[TheGuitarCock]

Cola...can you post the link for the one you bought?

[Jolly Roger]

These are refurbished pcs & laptops...not sure about the prices though...


http://www.dell.com/outlet

[TheGuitarCock]

http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/computer_can_series.do?storeName=computer_store&category=notebooks&a1=Usage&v1=Everyday+computing&series_name=C700T_series

[recock]

http://www.bestbuybusiness.com/bbfb/en/US/adirect/bestbuy?cmd=catEnhancedSearchResult&shopByBrand=N&mfrName=&filter=400+to+600&breadCrumb=0%24600767%2F600783*%0C4%24400+to+600&showAll2ndLink=false&filterGroup=-1&lineItemsChecked=&lineItemsQuantity=&OP=changeSortCriteria&sortCriteria=sortByPrice&prevSortCriteria=sortByScore&sortAscending=true&currPageNum=0&showImage=true&numberSelected=0&clearTopQueryTerm=false&startNewSearch=false&matchKeyword=true&matchKeywordDict=true&includeSuperseded=true&search=advanced&SubOp=




http://computers.search.ebay.com/_Laptops-Notebooks_W0QQcatrefZC2QQfrppZ25QQsacatZ51148QQsas sZrecoupit


http://www.microseconds.net/?page=Products_Laptops


Hope this helps

[recock]

http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/computer_can_series.do?storeName=computer_store&category=notebooks&a1=Usage&v1=Everyday+computing&series_name=C700T_series


I have seen some issues with this laptop. Not all but some. There is a bios conflict with the wifi and simply will not allow it to boot up. You may not get one that does this but hp still has not corrected this issue.

[Gearhead]

Guitar... how were you posting going down the road to TN if you don't know how wifi works and don't have a laptop? Just asking??

[TheGuitarCock]

It wasnt mine. It was my dads. I use his when I REALLY need one for something. I just asked him if I could take it on our trip and he said yea. I don't know how it works he just told me what to do.

No prob.

[Gearhead]

It wasnt mine. It was my dads. I use his when I REALLY need one for something. I just asked him if I could take it on our trip and he said yea. I don't know how it works he just told me what to do.

No prob.

gotcha :thumbsup:

[blaze]

every time I see the thread topic, it brings back bad memories.

[ColaCock]

GuitarCock:

Mine was a Gateway MX3231, not sure if they still sell them or not...but I bought it last October. For $400 bucks even, I couldn't beat it at the time...so I bought 2 of them and gave one to my little brother.

http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/Q106/MagicLC/MagicLCnv.jpg

Intel® Celeron® M processor 370
1.50 GHz | 1 MB L2 cache | 400 MHz FSB
Via VN800 chipset
14-inch Widescreen Ultrabright™ WXGA TFT
S3 UniChrome™ Pro integrated graphics
512 MB DDR2 memory
60-GB hard drive
CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive
Intergrated 802.11g wireless LAN
Intergrated 10/100 Ethernet LAN
4-in-1 Digital Media Manager
6-cell Lithium-ion battery
Microsoft® Windows® XP Home

[TheGuitarCock]

Thanks

[recock]

Walmart has this deal beginning at 8:00am friday morning. Acer laptop with 1 GB ram for $348.....Thanks to JAYBEZ for the link below.

http://holiday.ri-walmart.com/?section=secret&utm_source=Walmartcom&utm_medium=POV1&utm_content=secret1&utm_campaign=holiday&povid=cat14503-env15844-module117144-lLink1

[TheGuitarCock]

Thanks...