Comments on: What’s The Best And Cheapest Notebook Around?

By: Ihalmiut

Ihalmiut — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:47:58 +0000

Wow. This whole thread needs to be redefined. Great concept; What’s the best all round? At least you would think folks would post a few good candidates. I think it needs more defintion because its too broad. Who thinks of the best all-round notebook for games? It’s like saying what the best gas-mileage cummuter car for hauling roofing materials. You need to eliminate games from the all-round category.

I dont have an answer beyond know what you want your computer to do. The cost will be the lowest you can get based on how specific you are, and how well you know what you want it to do. We are after all talking about having the best fit to (?) for the ($).

By: Jas

Jas — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:12:16 +0000

What about the HP Pavilion G60-230US 16inch laptop as shown on this website: http://learning-about.com/laptopcomputers/218/hp-pavilion-g60-230us-16-0-inch-laptop/ is that any good ?

By: Ixcion

Ixcion — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:04:09 +0000

I agree with some of what James says – however, an Alienware rig will cost you.

As a college student, I’ve been trying to find a laptop that will balance performance, portability, and my frugal budget. An Alienware, though strong in the performance category (make no mistake) probably will lack in the portability and/or budget category.

I have found that sometimes those brand name -puters are getting to be strong in all three categories – with the right upgrades in mind.

Furthermore, I wish to suggest NOT to upgrade the hard-drive or RAM because those are things “capable” people can do easily on their own – emphasis on CAPABLE, for much cheaper than the upgrade costs. CPU/GPU and other stuff, however, shouldn’t be attempted.

By: James

James — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:39:49 +0000

As a working tech that specializes in laptops. I would just like to say this artical is very, very misleading. First of all a Studio 15 can’t even get close to the performance of an alienware rig. Second If you going to pick a laptop DON’T pick by name. Do the research on each model, Processor,FSB,L2 Cache,hard drive and Video card. Finally check the gamer blogs and ebay to find out which laptops are having the most hardware issues.