Looking to buy a laptop that will be used primarily for:

1. School work

2. Photo and music uploads and downloads

3. Burning/Creating Music and Movies

I do play games on the computer but not a daily thing.

Looking for something that obviously has a lot of memory, clarity, efficient, light weight.

I have a Dell PC now (about 5-6 years old) that I want to keep and use in conjuction with the laptop. Would like a MAC but not sure about its compatibility with my PC

Looking for suggestions - I do not have thousands of dollars to spend - possibly looking into refurbished laptops? Thanks in advance

I don’t know much about laptops. So, as I’m only 16 and I’m going into the 11th grade, I will only need this laptop for my remaining 2 years left of high school. After that, I will buy a laptop of more quality.

Until then, my laptop that I will want to purchase will have to be in the price range of below 0. Main things I will be using the laptop will be just for school work, and for music (I have only 40gb of music).

Could you please help me find a laptop?
I was thinking about this laptop, what do you think?
http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10123961&catid=#

I recently bought a used laptop, a Toshiba Tecra 9100. On startup, it will sometimes freeze before Windows XP can even load. If Windows does manage to load and I get to the desktop, it will freeze soon after. And this is if the laptop even starts up, sometimes I’ll press the power on button and the indicator light will come on, without any other sign of life. I then have to hold the button until the light goes off, then try again. I also don’t have any peripherals attached (mouse, wireless USB adapter, etc.), and it does this with the AC cord connected as well as disconnected.
I was just wondering if these laptops are known to ever experience these problems, because then when I get it repaired, I can point the technician in the right direction (resulting in me hopefully paying less in time saved). He estimated the work would cost 0 CAD, unless it took over an hour. He tested the hardrive and checked viruses for free, and found no problems.
Any info/ thoughts are appreciated, Thanks

I am planning to buy a laptop.

These are the models I wanted to buy. Which one is better?

Toshiba A205-S7458 (Core 2 Duo T5250)
Sony Vaio CR 220 (Core 2 Duo T7250)
HP DX6650 (Core 2 Duo T5250)

all of these have 2GB RAM and 200GB hard drive.

Thanks!!

I use my laptop for college school work, internet, and some gaming.

when trying to turn on a laptop. A black screen apears and says something about a boot agent and when i press enter it says "media test failutre". I’ve never used the laptop before…?
It doesn’t have a hard drive. I didn’t think that would be a problem.

I want to buy a laptop for school but there are so many different types of laptops to choose from. I want something for basic use, nothing too fancy or too expensive.. any suggestions??

when i ask ‘what too look for’ i mean as in gb, mb, just the basic size for my first laptop. i will only be using it for personal, emaill and shopping and school.

I have a 2.5" Fujitsu IDE hard disk that says 40GB. I tested it on my laptop and it detected it as a 40GB. But when I put it on an external enclosure and formatted it on a PC the total size became 22GB.

How come it became 22GB? How can I make it 40gb? I used fat32 because it will have an error on ntfs and it is on a vaio enclosure.

So I have an Xbox 360 in my room but my desktop is too far away to easily run an ethernet cable to it. I do however have a laptop with a wireless adapter on it. I did some Googleing and found that people have been able to do this through network sharing. I tried it but still no luck. When the Xbox tests the connection, it retrieves the IP address but it is unable to retrieve the DNS. Anyone got any answers?

I am looking to buy laptop. I am looking for a fast laptop with a descent size hard drive. I am looking to use it for school, social networking, video chatting, and watching movies. It must be very durable and last me a long time. Please give me suggestions of laptops that may suit me. Thank you.
I am not a gamer.

Can I connect my xbox 360 to my laptop to use my laptop as a controller. I don’t have a controller right now, and I really want to test it to see if it works. I don’t mean connect to xbox live, I just want to use my laptop like a controller. Thanks!

Why does my school buy high end computers just to use Microsoft Word and occasionally Internet Explorer? They always complain about not having any money after they buy this stuff for no reason… My old crappy laptop can run those programs just fine and it’s from 1999.
They also complain about not having money for books and paper. We have to supply our own paper FOR THEM.

I’m in high school, so I obviously can’t afford much. I’ll have to save up Christmas money. We only have one computer in the house, so I would love to have a computer of my own. I have two brothers and it is very difficult to get to the computer when I need to do work for school. I would strictly be using this laptop to do homework,surfing the web, emailing, im’ing, etc.

I am getting a new laptop because my desktop is screwed up.. My dad wants to make sure I can use this computer before he buys it… I go to flvs btw… I am like 99% percent sure but of course I have to check because my dad doesnt want to spend that much money for a computer I cant use.. Oh ya mac or pc?

Now that I know my wife’s laptop’s harddrive is failing, I would like to test the rest of the system to see if it’s salvagable. I need to run some relatively complex programs (like say explorer, firefox, MS office, etc.) from an external source, like an external harddrive or thumbdrive. however, all the ones i have require extensive .dll’s or local harddrive access. what programs could I use?

I’m buying a computer as a sophomore in high school. If I buy a laptop now, I’ll be using it as a desktop for the next 2 years but I’ll be able to take it with me to college. Couldn’t I take a desktop or would I need something portable to take into my classes or would I be getting a newer one by then?

I am a teacher at a school who’s IT department does NOT allow us to install any software on their precious computers. My textbook teacher’s edition came with software question banks that I would like to use. Is there some way that, aside from uninstalling the exam creation program every time, my shutting down the computer would roll back the laptop so that it never "knew" I had installed and created a test on the computer? Mostly I use my home computer for such things, but I’d like a solution that wouldn’t have the wrath of the IT department come down on my head (you should have seen what resulted from me installing FireFox) at the school.

Thanks.

I am trying to connect my xbox using my wireless adapter in my laptop. I know it is a fairly simple process of enabling the ICS on the LAN connection. When I attempt to check the box the message I receive is "ICS cannot be enabled, A LAN connection is already configured with the IP address that is required for automatic IP addresses." I have no idea what to do. I know there is a way to use an ethernet cable from laptop to Xbox 360 but I cannot fix this problem. I also know you can bridge the wireless connection in your laptop to your LAN which I tried but that would connect either. When I tried on xbox it failed the IP test. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I DO NOT want to spend 99 on that rip off wireless adapter…

I recently bought a used laptop from a friend who had a college laptop, but when i got it i found out i was gyped and i cant do anything unless i can unlock the administrators account! It was a school computer and i just wanna wipe all of their software so i can use my laptop!

P.S. Everything on the laptop is blocked so i cant get into the settings

I am 5′10” and 145 Ibs male

I will be using this laptop for:
1.school work
and
2. movies and gaming (free time)

Also, i will be carrying it around sometimes.

what size should i buy? 13′ or 15′ or 17′ ? maybe something else? weight?

PLEASE help?? im buying it today :\

I keep getting the message NTRLD missing and I keep having to format and reinstalling windows xp. at the xp setup window I can’t use the "R" Key to repair it, my only option is to partition and install xp.. after I get this message NTRLD missing I try to boot from Harddrive and it mentions a problem with cable, but it doesn’t say much, just error on cable or something like that.
I’ve already tested my harddrive and it’s working fine.. How do I test the cable on the harddrive.. I really need help here as i’m at uni and I need my laptop to study cisco and I keep having to format to gain my OS. Thanking you in advance

I’m trying to decide which brand laptop to buy. I am going to be a freshman in college this fall and I am planning to go into accounting. I am looking at getting a MacBook. Has anyonoe had any problems sharing information between a mac and pc? If my school’s main operating system is dell, would I have trouble using a mac? Also, what does everyone think of dells? How is the quality, performance, etc? Any other brands that you really like?

The laptop I want is for home use, for games, school work and lots of videos.

Looking to get new cell phone service and I live out in the country a ways. I want to test how well various services work reception wise at my home and at my work. I don’t want to buy a phone until I know it will work in the places I want to use it. Is there a device that can show cell reception signals for various network frequencies. What I’m looking for would be similar to the wifi detectors you can get for a laptop that show wifi signals without having to use your computer.

i m still a high school student but one day i will be in college so i want to use for a long time… and i dont really know which one is good for me …. if u can explain why i should buy macbook or vaio … i would appreciate it ….. which laptop can i use for a long long time if i use properly … ???? please help me . . .. also give me information about why macbook is good or why vaio is good . . . . please please and please . . . . .i really need help . . . .