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Answer» If price is not very important, which laptops are the best right now? CNET has given the top five slots to laptops that are NOT from Dell or HP. Why are you not surprised? Quote Updated October 21, 2011 7:06 AM PDT) Dan Ackerman Senior editor Scott Stein Senior editor The most common question we get around here is simple: "What laptop should I BUY?" Being a generally difficult person by nature, I usually respond with my own series of questions: "What size screen do you want? How much do you want to spend?" and so on. But sometimes people just want a simple suggestion, based on what I actually like. So, here is a jargon-free list of the current crop of laptops that I'm digging, either because they give you good BANG for your buck, they excel in their specific category, or because they just plain rock... http://reviews.cnet.com/best-laptops/ Relive it or not, at least one is under $ 900. Still out of range for an old man on Social Security. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230027&Tpk=G53SW-XN1 $849.99 for the i7-2630QM, the GTX 460M with 1.5 GB GDDR5 VRAM, a 1920x1080 HD DISPLAY, and 6GB DDR3?!?! No wonder it's out of stock. Asus's ROG laptop series make the perfect desktop replacements... the only catch is poor battery life and weight.I'd love to find a laptop with excellent battery life. Quote from: DragonMaster Jay on October 28, 2011, 07:21:36 AM I'd love to find a laptop with excellent battery life. Netbooks (at least from what I hear) have really good battery life. Of course they sacrifice quite a bit in other areas, so I guess it would depend on what one wants to do with the machine.As long as the keys fit my large fingers. It's such a pain working with an Acer netbook one of my friends brought over one time. I have a Compaq laptop that I bought in July 2007, so I say do not rule out Compaq. If you really want to keep the cost low, take a look at COMPAQ Presario CQ62-209WM Refurbished Notebook AMD Athlon II Dual-Core P320(2.10GHz) 15.6" 3GB Memory 250GB HDD 7200rpm DVD Super Multi ATI Radeon HD 4250 BTW, I wouldn't put much stock in http://reviews.cnet.com/best-laptops/. That "review" doesn't amount to much, in my opinion. It's much too limited in coverage of what's on the market. Quote from: DragonMaster Jay on October 28, 2011, 07:21:36 AM I'd love to find a laptop with excellent battery life. HP Pavilion dv6 - i5, 6 GB RAM, 750 GB HDD, 1 GB ATI GRAPHICS, BeatsAudio etc. etc. Got mine just over 2 MONTHS ago. It takes ~2 hours to charge fully and, depending on what I'm doing, lasts up to 5 hours. Generally I'm just using Word, Outlook, web browsing, coding etc. I still get over 3 hours if I'm using Photoshop or other heavy apps.That's nice!

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If price is not very important, which laptops are the best right now? CNET has given the top five slots to laptops that are NOT from Dell or HP. Why are you not surprised?
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Updated October 21, 2011 7:06 AM PDT)
Dan Ackerman Senior editor
Scott Stein Senior editor
The most common question we get around here is simple: "What laptop should I BUY?"
Being a generally difficult person by nature, I usually respond with my own series of questions: "What size screen do you want? How much do you want to spend?" and so on. But sometimes people just want a simple suggestion, based on what I actually like. So, here is a jargon-free list of the current crop of laptops that I'm digging, either because they give you good BANG for your buck, they excel in their specific category, or because they just plain rock...
http://reviews.cnet.com/best-laptops/

Relive it or not, at least one is under $ 900.
Still out of range for an old man on Social Security. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230027&Tpk=G53SW-XN1
$849.99 for the i7-2630QM, the GTX 460M with 1.5 GB GDDR5 VRAM, a 1920x1080 HD DISPLAY, and 6GB DDR3?!?! No wonder it's out of stock.
Asus's ROG laptop series make the perfect desktop replacements... the only catch is poor battery life and weight.I'd love to find a laptop with excellent battery life. Quote from: DragonMaster Jay on October 28, 2011, 07:21:36 AM

I'd love to find a laptop with excellent battery life.

Netbooks (at least from what I hear) have really good battery life.

Of course they sacrifice quite a bit in other areas, so I guess it would depend on what one wants to do with the machine.As long as the keys fit my large fingers. It's such a pain working with an Acer netbook one of my friends brought over one time. I have a Compaq laptop that I bought in July 2007, so I say do not rule out Compaq. If you really want to keep the cost low, take a look at COMPAQ Presario CQ62-209WM Refurbished Notebook AMD Athlon II Dual-Core P320(2.10GHz) 15.6" 3GB Memory 250GB HDD 7200rpm DVD Super Multi ATI Radeon HD 4250

BTW, I wouldn't put much stock in http://reviews.cnet.com/best-laptops/. That "review" doesn't amount to much, in my opinion. It's much too limited in coverage of what's on the market. Quote from: DragonMaster Jay on October 28, 2011, 07:21:36 AM

I'd love to find a laptop with excellent battery life.

HP Pavilion dv6 - i5, 6 GB RAM, 750 GB HDD, 1 GB ATI GRAPHICS, BeatsAudio etc. etc.

Got mine just over 2 MONTHS ago. It takes ~2 hours to charge fully and, depending on what I'm doing, lasts up to 5 hours. Generally I'm just using Word, Outlook, web browsing, coding etc. I still get over 3 hours if I'm using Photoshop or other heavy apps.That's nice!

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