Peace fellas i found a HP Laptop ProBook 6555B (SM480UP#ABA) AMD Turion II P520 (2.3 GHz) 4 GB Memory 160 GB HDD 15.6" for $129 with the option of a 1 year warranty for $30 on Newegg, this will be used for surfing the net only. My question to some of you computer savvy is this worth it? Thanks in advance!
OT: Laptop help
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I think it is worth it. It will surf the web just fine. I doubt you will find anything cheaper. I wouldn't bother with the extended warranty though.
Even with low specs seems way too cheap, double check with Newegg to see if it comes with Windows. Since you are asking about a laptop, I assume you aren't going to be putting an OS on yourself.
looked at the laptop doesn't say windows, but there's a picture of windows on the screen so I would check...you could always install linux mint on it, and it would run like a champ and never get any viruses. of course mac book is awesome but $1000 compared to 129 for web surfing?
Owners of Win7 can upgrade for free to Win10 until at least July, if I recall correctly, although I do like the Linux idea mentioned above.
Why no extended warranty? I would think that "protection" would be well worth it though i do feel $30 is too high but if any issues arise i'm protected.......
LMAO i haven't been on those pages since the 2006 season, one day my son who was 9 at the time and playing a computer game comes to me and says "daddy a girl with a hotdog in her mouth keeps coming on the screen"! I almost had a heart attack & got chills thinking about if my wife had been home to hear that shit lol....now i just look at nude pics on facebook - NO VIRUSES
You have a throw away unit. For the kind of money your paying it it fails you buy a new one and move on. You don't warranty anything for that $$$ value waste of money
Sounds like a great deal. At that price if you get 2-3 years out of(U will likely get more) its a good deal.
Thanks for all the help fellas but i just bought this
Gateway NE71B06u E1-1200 4GB 500GB 17.3" LED HD 7310 WiFi Laptop-- with a 2 year warranty for 225, always wanted a Gateway & the 17" screen put me over
Gateway NE71B06u E1-1200 4GB 500GB 17.3" LED HD 7310 WiFi Laptop-- with a 2 year warranty for 225, always wanted a Gateway & the 17" screen put me over
First order of business.. Get a good antivirus
I like webroot - often goes on sale on Newegg (like today) for $10 / 3 licenses one year.
Also get Malwarebytes
I like webroot - often goes on sale on Newegg (like today) for $10 / 3 licenses one year.
Also get Malwarebytes
Umm...
Facebook is the most common, #1 with a bullet, source for malware. There are a hundred porn sites that are safer than Facebook.
I don't click on anything, i know guys who put pictures on there pages from these sites, no porn just pics in bathing suits tight dresses etc.....
Yes - the general rule for Facebook should be "click nothing". There are, sadly, far too many people who don't realize that all of the games and most of the 3rd party content is designed purely as a phishing exercise.
I second the Mac opinion. You will pay more up front, but you will have a more secure and faster Web experience with a beautiful screen.
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Sounds cheap but not so sure how fast you will move on the net and you will have to pay for many add ons.
Check out comkparable at Costco.com. Just purchased a loaded laptop there that I'm using now. They have a 90 day Return policy, a permanent help line (possibly saves hundreds in tech support fees) and a free trial of antivirus software. They Add a year to the Dell manufacturers warranty.
My purchase for under $920 was a Dell Inspiron 5000 series 17 inch tRUlife (close to high def) touchscreen monitor, 1TB hard drive (another TB was $100), 16GB memory 4GB Radeon graphics memory (i.e.gaming), core i7 processor, windows 10, dvd player, wavesmaxx audio, HD webcam+duial microphone webcam HD+double moicrophone, wireless and Bluetooth,
The last $100 was 3 yesrs of squaretrade protection and I hear squaretrade is good.
Check out comkparable at Costco.com. Just purchased a loaded laptop there that I'm using now. They have a 90 day Return policy, a permanent help line (possibly saves hundreds in tech support fees) and a free trial of antivirus software. They Add a year to the Dell manufacturers warranty.
My purchase for under $920 was a Dell Inspiron 5000 series 17 inch tRUlife (close to high def) touchscreen monitor, 1TB hard drive (another TB was $100), 16GB memory 4GB Radeon graphics memory (i.e.gaming), core i7 processor, windows 10, dvd player, wavesmaxx audio, HD webcam+duial microphone webcam HD+double moicrophone, wireless and Bluetooth,
The last $100 was 3 yesrs of squaretrade protection and I hear squaretrade is good.
I know a CEO of a very prestigious application development firm - they are leaders in the financial space.
He carries a Chromebook - loves it, swears by it.. i find it so funny that a guy who builds such amazingly complex big data solutions would carry one, but he is much smarter than I will ever be...
I have a Windows 7 laptop that I have been using for 4 years. Never use antivirus or malware, and never have had a problem.
This one?
http://www.costco.com/Dell-Inspiron...|-4GB-Graphics-|-1080p.product.100228025.html
It's on sale for $750. A 2.8 out of 5 user review would cause me to pass.
And you can drive on the highway without a seatbelt - you may never have an issue there either, but I wouldn't suggest it
If you get hit by a crypto locker virus (like the one that was coming via Adobe Flash a few weeks back), you are in for a world of hurt
There are excellent paid and free options- please try one. It's a small insurance policy
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2084002/how-to-rescue-your-pc-from-ransomware.html
I am usually more circumspect, but I found the antivirus and malware programs to be more trouble than they were worth. I don't really have anything on my machine that is important. Mostly just use it for the internet and logging in to work. In many years of being on computers, I think I had a virus issue once, and it wasn't too bad to deal with.
I don't get malware either. I keep AV on puter but only rarely run it at start-up. Scans (NOD32) never find anything except false positives. Since Vista Windows has been tighter. Helps to stay off the bad sites.
That said, I think malware has been more sophisticated too. Even large companies like Lenovo (never trusted them) have been busted putting crap in the Bios.
CAUGHT: Lenovo crams unremovable crapware into Windows laptops – by hiding it in the BIOS
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/12/lenovo_firmware_nasty/
I assemble my own PCs and update my Bios etc. I reinstall OS from Iso image every 3-6 months. I also back stuff up. Drives are silly cheap right now.
Most people really don't do much power computing on their personal computers. Email, snapchat, itunes, instagram, ebay etc seem to be what most people do (especially Apple users who usually dont even game).
I despise Google though and wont go near their Chromebook and their friggen "cloud" that they use to share your data. As far as I'm concerned everything Google is malware. Things like Amazon phones, Chromebooks, smart TVs etc are just ways to worm into your life and share your devices, data etc
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