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Thread ID: 96811 2009-01-24 05:56:00 New Laptop for my Better Half taxboy4 (579) Press F1
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741652 2009-01-24 05:56:00 Hi - I need to buy a lap top for my better half - at the moment she insists on trying to use my laptop, or my bit torrent down load PC or my gaming PC - she can't seem to understand "Yes, I do need all 3 at once!!"!!

All she needs is something that has or can run

1) Use for browsing and email
2) freecell
3) bluetooth / wireless
4) use a bit of Word
5) watch the occasional avi file
6) use itunes

If she needs to do anything grunty, I will do it for her

We are in Wellington but two questions

what model / specs would you recommend and from where?

Cheers
taxboy4 (579)
741653 2009-01-24 06:02:00 whats your budget? GameJunkie (72)
741654 2009-01-24 07:09:00 whats your budget?

Prefer $1,000 - could go to $1,200
taxboy4 (579)
741655 2009-01-24 07:26:00 What about something like an Asus EEE (www.playtech.co.nz) if it only going to be doing Office and Email/Browsing stormdragon (6013)
741656 2009-01-24 07:34:00 I just bought that laptop but with the 160gb hdd, and I absolutely adore it, and this is coming from quite a powerful sony vaio laptop, the battery life is phenomenal and in spite of the specs it is a very quick little laptop. lagbort (5041)
741657 2009-01-24 08:17:00 +1 for eee, would easily do what you want Blam (54)
741658 2009-01-24 09:04:00 Give her the old one & buy yourself a new more grunty one!!! PJ




ps If you dare :D pj
Poppa John (284)
741659 2009-01-24 11:15:00 Minimum specs:

1.8GHz dual core
2GB RAM
160GB / 250GB (pretty much up to you

You should be able to get something like this for $1000 from DSE.

Cheers :)
Renmoo (66)
741660 2009-01-24 12:27:00 DSE has these full size Toshibas (www.dse.co.nz) for less than a EEE. feersumendjinn (64)
741661 2009-01-24 18:42:00 ASUS or Toshiba.

And I'd be agreeing with her. 3 computers to yourself is just selfish.
pctek (84)
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