(sorry for this non-relevant to anything post, I just wanted to ask for advice.. again… lol)

Sooo for graduation my grandparents gave me $1000 (which, it was really funny when I saw the check, because at first I thought it was another $100 one, and then I looked again and was like “wait, there were 3 zeros..” lol… THhe look on my face was priceless).. which, is really helpful, because I do need teh moneyz. I really want to get a laptop for college, so I decided to use the money for that.

Now my big dilemma is that I have no idea what is the best laptop to get.

I can tell you what I would be using it for:

Going online, Playing SIMS, using Word to type stuff, and saving pictures/music.

I’m not a big gamer or anything- just sims lol.

And my dad check the computer that we have at home (which I am using right now). It’s got 512 MG of memory and 80 GB of Hard Drive, and it runs fine with all the crap we have on it (and we have SIMS 2 on here, iTunes, a zillion pictures, my dad uses AutoCAD… so there is a lot of stuff). And most of the laptops we saw were 2-3 GB memory and 200-320 GM of hard drive. So the computer I am using at home right now is one sixth that amount. Now that I know that I’m not too worried about those numbers, since I don’t think I’m going to be doing any intense graphics or anything with it.

The brands I looked at the store and liked were 1 Toshiba, 2 Dells, a Sony, a Gateway and an HP. I wrote down all the stuff about them but I don’t have it with me at the moment.

Our computer we have now is a Gateway, but it isn’t a laptop, and I don’t know how their laptops are. Most of the comments I found online said they pretty much suck, but at the store they were the best price for memory and hard drive (it was like $750 for 4 GB and 320 GB)….

blarggg… I don’t know… I hear a lot of people saying good thing about macs/apples. But I know nothing about them.

It seems like none of these brands are the best, because there is always a negative comment for every positive one. Dell and Gateway got more negatives than positives, Toshiba was in the middle, HP got more positive than negative, and Mac got all positives pretty much (other than that they said if you havn’t used it before it is weird for PC users, plus it’s more expensive). But it seemed all the people who had Macs thought they were amazing and built to last and just all around the best.

I’m just wondering what laptops you all use and WHY you love/hate them. Or if you know laptops and know what would be good for me, since I have no idea what laptop is best for online-SIMS2playing-typingstuff-andstoringpicturesandmusic. Or any other all around laptop purchasing tips (I heard that “hp’s laptops. They also have an academic purchase program that knocks another 10-20% off the price you qualify for as a student.”). Stuff like that. Like I said, my price range is up to $1000 (I could maybe go a bit higher, but I’d rather have extra money to use for paying actual tuition lol).

Sooo.. any advice would be wonderful. Or just tell me, if you have a laptop, what you love about it, or if you had one that you didn’t like, why didn’t you like it.

I’m going to check out SamsClub sometime this week, since their prices are always great.

(and I promise this week I will have… ACTUAL posts lol. I was too busy yesterday about going to my Target interview. I have to go back today so I’m still on my nerve train and won’t be getting off for another day. Plus, I have to get pictures uploaded and take pictures for the book post and I just havn’t gotten around to doing so. But IT WILL BE DONE! I do have all summer here lol.)

Thansk again for any advice. And if you want the specs I wrote down from Best Buy about the computers I was interested in, I have it and can give it to you if you want them.