Re: [H] Laptop for College Student

2014-07-26 Thread Joshua MacCraw
Randomly de-lurking for my annual my $.02 post! ;) Depending on the cost there are also brand agnostic ADP insurance plans from the likes of Safeware, Worth Ave Group, etc... After all these years I still do not agree with Thane about Acer being a quality brand and it's certainly not one I hear

Re: [H] Laptop for College Student

2014-07-26 Thread Vincent Winterling
I have always liked Dell. That said yesterday I bought a refurbed Apple MacBook. A couple of years ago I bought my wife and granddaughter Toshiba L series laptops. While mostly plastic at the time their recent offerings are here: http://www.toshiba.com/us/customlanding.to?page=Satellite_L_Series

Re: [H] Laptop for College Student

2014-07-26 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 09:39 AM 26/07/2014, Joshua MacCraw wrote: I'd recommend HP personally but when you're talking $500~600 market I'm quick to say save your money a few more months or consider non-windows tablet alternatives where that kind of low end hardware maters not. By low-end I refer to what was once AMD

Re: [H] Laptop for College Student

2014-07-26 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Thanks for all the info, guys. At this point, I'm not sure how she is going to do her schoolwork, she might not either. She's been online schooled until this point. I don't know if she's ever been exposed to the massive hall lecture. Nor am I sure how they do it anymore. I've seen it

[H] Used to know how, but I forgot. Help?

2014-07-26 Thread DSinc
Years ago, I recall a process/task/way to get M$ to lift its' 'GAMES Directoy' on the DVD back to my harddrive and stitch it into the new localdrive's glop post install. Thank you for any help you can share. Best, Duncan