New Laptop
31 03 2008I haven’t posted in a while on here. I’m still trying to get into the groove of regular blogging.
For almost a year now Since I bought it 3 years ago, I have been having problems with my Averatec Laptop. It went back to the company three times while it was still under warranty. Within the last year the battery took a crap on me as well as the motherboard battery went kerplunk. It was getting to be rather a pain to reset the clock everytime I disconnected power from the thing.
Well, I have been looking around at laptops for the last couple weeks, really wanting a very portable one with the amount of traveling I do. Switching to Mac was definitely on my mind but the thought of having to re-buy a great deal of software (Office 07, Adobe Suite, DJ Software, etc) turned me off to the idea at this point. I was also looking at the Dell XPS m1330, but a lack of funds and a unsure opinion of Dell was turning me away from that route as well.
Last weekend I was in Best Buy just browsing their laptops while talking to my cousin (who is a manager there), and I came across the HP dv2752 which was on sale for $650. Even though I was wanting something “light and portable” the 14.1″ widescreen makes it not too much bigger in size to my 12.1″ standard screen. It came with an extended life battery and they also threw in a kensington Bluetooth adapter (one that is small enough to stay in all the time).
So far I have been very pleased with the machine. It is pretty fast with the AMD Turion 64dual core processor with 2 gb of ram. The 14.1″ Brightview screen is crystal clear and views dvds very nicely. I haven’t had time to try out the dvd burner with lightscribe yet because I still need to pick up some lightscribe discs. I have had a couple little quirks with Vista but I hope to get those worked out in the near future.
Being just over a week since I’ve had it, I still don’t have everything transferred over from my Averatec, but have the majority of necessary docs and programs (firefox, thunderbird, office 07, adobe, etc).
If anyone wants to buy a Averatec 3270 w/ 12.1″ screen, 1.67ghz amd processor, 1 gb ram, XP home, DVD burner, etc, it will be up for sale very soon :).
Good luck with the new laptop. And good luck with Vista and LightScribe. Maybe both their quirks will cancel each other out. Seriously though, the LightScribe is too slow and limited in the designs you can create. My LS sits idle on my computer and I use only a DiscPainter to make fast color labels for my CDs and DVDs.
Thanks Wally,
So far I have been happy with Vista. Still working on moving everything over so it will take time to see if I have problems. As far as the lightscribe, it definitely wasn’t a selling point. I liked the laptop and it just happened to have it. I don’t burn many CDs anymore these days having an ipod and an mp3 capable phone.
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