Ok, I got it narrowed down to these 3.  Which would you choose if you were me?  I use my puter mainly for pictures and video, plus the net.

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Which one of these is best?

Thanks for any help!!!!

:)mel

I am of no value in this.  I use whatever the corporation puts on my lap.

echo wrote on Aug 19^th, 2008 at 10:45am:

I am of no value in this.  I use whatever the corporation puts on my lap.

Well thanks Mark, that helps a lot. ;D

Link #2, hands down.

#1 has AMD 64 bit, which is cool if you're a gamer, but not any big deal for everything else.  #2 has dual core Pentium, very nice.  #3 has a Pentium M.  Those are OK on power consumption, but slow.

-Shawn

Melissa wrote on Aug 19^th, 2008 at 10:54am:

echo wrote on Aug 19th, 2008 at 10:45am: I am of no value in this.  I use whatever the corporation puts on my lap. Well thanks Mark, that helps a lot. ;D

You're welcome sis.  Glad I could be there for you when you're in need.  That's what brothers do do.  Mine is a Dell Latitude D610, my
Treo is a 755P, I use a tracker ball, my shorts are white, shirt size is 17 - 34/35, pants 34x31, and progressive bifocals. Favorite color is sky blue pink.

Love ya,  Mark

Oh, Monty! I'll - take - door - number -

two-three-one-three-two-one-three-Wait!

I didn't go yet!

Pick the gray one,  the color should go with anything.

#2 sounds like a good piece of hardware, but read the warranty well before buying it.  I would ask if you could "downgrade" to windows XP instead of Vista.

Best of luck to you!

Ray

I am not a fan of "refurbished" laptops. Desktops maybe, laptops not so much.......

WEll, I asked Beeyull to help me out too, and he found me a Gateway at Best Buy that are on sale right now for $549.00.  He's such a peach! ;)

Thanks for your input!! :)

"Oh, Monty. I'll take door number 4."

"I'm sorry, that's not one of the choices. But thanks for playing."

wrote on Aug 19^th, 2008 at 1:30pm:

"Oh, Monty. I'll take door number 4." "I'm sorry, that's not one of the choices. But thanks for playing."

:P

Here ya go Mel. Get one like this:

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Charlie

Mel,
I have the Toshiba Satellite P205D-S7438 notebook and I love it!  I like the 17.5 inch screen.  It's really not that heavy either.  Oooh,my tv dinner is ready!

'darlin

Well, here she is, my new puter!  And I love it!!  

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oh yeah, and it has a built in webcam, something i never had before!!

:) :) :)

Ava says HIIII everybody!!!

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:), all well and good then, but which one is it ? andrew.

Those built-in web cams can be a problem... recently there was a guy arrested who had installed a program that would secretly take pictures on his ex-girlfriend's computer and send them to his email account.  Bad boy. There are virii out there that can detect your camera and do the same thing.  Best to tape over it and 'open' it when you want to use it.  Sadly, the same virii also can turn on your mic without you knowing it, making your computer the perfect bugging device that sends audio to the bad guys without you ever knowing it.  It's a scary world these days.  I'm not saying this happens every day, just that it happens.

-Shawn

andrewjb wrote on Aug 21^st, 2008 at 5:21pm:

:), all well and good then, but which one is it ? andrew.

Oh, sorry Andrew, it's not in the initial list of 3 I posted, instead it's the one that Bill found for me.  It's a Gateway M-Series :)

FU- now you got me paranoid!  :(  Guess I'll have to find a piece of window cling, cut it and stick it on there...

  I would have picked No. 1 for other reasons. But it looks like you got a perfectly servicable machine anyway. Make sure you turn off your Mic and Webcam in your hardware Manager, unless you're using them. To keep the creeps out. After all you have Microsoft and no security.
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Thanks Kirk.  I disabled the webcam in the Device Manager but I don't know what to look for to disable the mic?  

Mel,
     Did you get a set of restore disc's with your new Gateway? Their biggest problem in the past has been no back up disc came with their systems and if your computer gets a virus or crashes you have to pay several hundred dollars for a set of restore disc's.
     For a windows based system, they are as good as any, should have gone with a Mac!  They are bullet proof and come with everything you will ever need right out of the box, they never get viruses,ever!     John

Sailpappy wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2008 at 2:43am:

Mel,      Did you get a set of restore disc's with your new Gateway? Their biggest problem in the past has been no back up disc came with their systems and if your computer gets a virus or crashes you have to pay several hundred dollars for a set of restore disc's.      For a windows based system, they are as good as any, should have gone with a Mac!  They are bullet proof and come with everything you will ever need right out of the box, they never get viruses,ever!     John

No John, I did not get a set of restore discs.  I usually don't keep lots of files on my puter anyway, I am too busy burning my pictures and home movies to do so, plus I always back up my hubbys files to disc after he gets a new side job.

Anyway, little late to get a Mac, besides, I cannot afford one.  

Thanks for everyones help!

  Sorry to burst your bubble John. But a Mac is a second class clone of the BSD Unix OS. And yes it gets Virii and Trojans. Two new ones this month. And they still haven't patched the DNS exploit. Or the Appletalk expliots. As well as the Apple Script exploit problems that have come up recently.
  Remember Apple is a hardware company. Not a software company. they just took FreeBSD, stripped some stuff out to suit themselves and put the Mac GUI on the front of it. Mac users have been mesmerized by Steve Jobs and his walled lotus eating garden for years.
  Remember Microsoft lusers learned how to use a two button mouse first.
  Mel, I think you can Mute your mic using the volumn controls. There should be an icon for it on the lower right of your screen. If not, hunt it down like the dog that it is.
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Thanks Kirk.  I went in through the control panel and disabled it.

:)