Decent Laptop

MarcosCOB

MarcosCOB

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Alright, so my girlfriend wants to get a laptop. She's looking to pay between R5000 and R6500.

Any advice on something decent with a sort of long-lasting battery?

She won't be gaming on it so onboard intel graphics would even suffice.:p
 
If you really need battery life, check the acer timeline machines, i think asus also has their long lasting laptop range cant remember what they were called but i know their battery life is around 7-9 hours which is quiete nice, you will notice the laptops by seeing if the use the CPU's that expecially were made for low power consumption
 
MarcosCOB said:
Thanks for the replies guys!

I been checking around, and I've narrowed it down to these 2:

1. http://www.acer.co.za/ac/en/ZA/content/model/LX.TZB03.039

2. http://www.packardbell.co.za/pb/en/SA/content/model/LX.BMJ02.002

I can get both for R6000 each. Anyone maybe familiar with either of these that could vouch for one or the other?
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Don't ever forget to take a look at Incredible Connection. Sometimes they have really really good specials. They recently had the 5 special thing, i5, 5 gigs ddr3 ram and 500gig hdd for R5500.
 
simon said:
Don't ever forget to take a look at Incredible Connection. Sometimes they have really really good specials. They recently had the 5 special thing, i5, 5 gigs ddr3 ram and 500gig hdd for R5500.
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And they thrown in free internet data packages with all laptops.
 
I would go for an ASUS or an Acer Laptop they seem to be one of the best in the market although ASUS is cheaper than Acer by a bit.

For her usage

i3 or i5 Cpu Dual Core is fine
4 gig ram
Hardrive size wouldnt matter for her
Make sure it has a good ventilation system or fan will buzz like crazy like my laptop :p
Wireless N to future proof it
 
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i wouldnt buy an Acer, i know of far too many ppl who had one that broke after 3 months....and it was an issue getting a replacement or getting it fixed
 
Wenzdayz said:
i wouldnt buy an Acer, i know of far too many ppl who had one that broke after 3 months....and it was an issue getting a replacement or getting it fixed
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Strange I've had 2 so far with no problems same with my friends. The one has lasted for over 7 years with no problems which I sold to a friend all that stopped working was the battery and friend reports that it's still going strong lol.

My newest one is almost 3 years old with no problems yet apart from usual dust.

All my friends seem to be alright on them maybe your friends got bad batches? I agree their service delivery is quite slow, but they replaced my brothers laptop quite easily years ago (He chose the bottom of range acer laptop lol).
 
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Same Here
We use Acer on a Corporate Scale (23 Laptops Deployed) All Acer and all specifically Acer due to some excellent First Line support
Personally I grew up on Acer, my first 386 was one and all of my desktops/laptops have been Acer up until the Alienware.
Never had any issues
 
Merenwenrago said:
I would go for an ASUS or an Acer Laptop they seem to be one of the best in the market although ASUS is cheaper than Acer by a bit.

For her usage

i3 or i5 Cpu Dual Core is fine
4 gig ram
Hardrive size wouldnt matter for her
Make sure it has a good ventilation system or fan will buzz like crazy like my laptop :p
Wireless N to future proof it
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Thanks, was looking for something along that line. Will be going to IC to have a look for their specials and I'll look out for seomthing like this :)
 
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