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Which laptop should I get?

Let’s say I have a thousand bucks- maybe two thousand. What is the best kind of laptop that I should get? Here is what I want from my laptop, and what I’d be using it for:

-Uploading videos, editing videos
-Recording video gaming videos from my TV
-Downloading music
-Listening to music
-Using the internet, and many flash-heavy sites
-AIM
-Ventrilo

I want a fast laptop. It needs to be able to open quite a few tabs with a lot of stuff going on in Firefox, it needs to have Frostwire run smoothly with other programs running, etc… My current PC is very limited and doesn’t do these things.

A good graphics card is a plus, though I won’t be doing any computer gaming, so it’s not a necessity.

Any ideas? Please share!

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n0tacr00k offline Verified User (8 months, 2 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
An Unknown Location | 7 months, 1 week ago (7 minutes after post)

Asus EEE netbook would be good so long as you’re not rendering any heavy 3D as in playing more than WoW

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An Undisclosed Location | 7 months, 1 week ago (9 minutes after post)

The PC sounds good, despite it’s tiny size. I don’t want to sit on it and break the thing… :P

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An Unknown Location | 7 months, 1 week ago (12 minutes after post)

It’s actually quite sturdy and comes with integrated 4MP webcam and many ports: only problems are gloss finish that attracts fingerprints, and comes with Vistaids although XP works better once you load some drivers.

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An Unknown Location | 7 months, 1 week ago (14 minutes after post)

Check out the dell XPS series… good products, great support.

they got 13,15,17 inch models.

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An Unknown Location | 7 months, 1 week ago (18 minutes after post)

mayneverkno wrote:
Check out the dell XPS series… good products, great support

overpriced for what they are, but always a good solution if you don’t want to mess with it: the Mac of PCs. However, you get a bad one, you know it; my friend’s used to blue-screen out of the box.

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An Unknown Location | 7 months, 1 week ago (30 minutes after post)

http://www.shopping.hp.com/notebooks;…

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An Unknown Location | 7 months, 1 week ago (7 hours, 20 minutes after post)

n0tacr00k wrote:

mayneverkno wrote:
Check out the dell XPS series… good products, great support

overpriced for what they are, but always a good solution if you don’t want to mess with it: the Mac of PCs. However, you get a bad one, you know it; my friend’s used to blue-screen out of the box.

true, a bit pricey, but prices have come down nicely. You can get one for a good price… I’d consider myself a power user, so worth it in my case.

for video editing, keep in mind you want a good graphics card.

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An Undisclosed Location | 7 months, 1 week ago (11 hours, 19 minutes after post)

mayneverkno wrote:

n0tacr00k wrote:
mayneverkno wrote:
Check out the dell XPS series… good products, great support

overpriced for what they are, but always a good solution if you don’t want to mess with it: the Mac of PCs. However, you get a bad one, you know it; my friend’s used to blue-screen out of the box.

true, a bit pricey, but prices have come down nicely. You can get one for a good price… I’d consider myself a power user, so worth it in my case.

for video editing, keep in mind you want a good graphics card.

Alright, thanks for the tip.

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chevyluminaeur wrote:
http://www.shopping.hp.com/notebooks;…

Warning: HP is so bloaty out of the box you’ll just install Ubuntu anyway

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