Laptop advice

[peewee]

Need to purchase a laptop and wanted any help I can recieve. Will mainly be used for browsing and kids homework etc. Trying to not break the bank if I can avoid it.

[teul2]

$$$ = quality
I generally point people to the Lenovo T (professional) series laptops. You can get a business class laptop in the $600 - $700 range. Their helpdesk is in Atlanta and is easy to talk to.

[regishay]

I bought my boys each one of these for Christmas and have been pretty happy with the systems so far.

http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/7 ... uter-With/

[JDgator]

$$$ = quality
I generally point people to the Lenovo T (professional) series laptops. You can get a business class laptop in the $600 - $700 range. Their helpdesk is in Atlanta and is easy to talk to.

I second the Lenovo think pad. We order tons of them for work. Try to get one with at least 8 gigabytes of RAM. Also, it can be a good deal to get the Office suite as an add-on. Plus then the computer will come with the software installed and ready to go.

[Agua]

If you're just doing kids homework and surfing the web, then just about anything will do. You don't need 8 gigs of ram and 3 Mhz processor for that.

[edub20]

watch woot.com for some of the factory refurb business class units and last year model old stock. You can get a good bit of bang for your buck on there.

[MSRetrievers]

If you are just surfing the Internet and doing homework, look at the Chromebooks.
A few of the schools are using Google Docs for homework I believe.

[Buckwabit]

Go to Newegg.com and go with the IBM (Lenova). Dad to the bone

[Deltaquack]

I've been buying Microsoft Pro Surface 3's lately at the office. They are pretty dang nice and can be used like a tablet or a laptop.

rjohnson put me on them

[duramax]

I bought a compact Acer for my wife off Amazon last year for around $300. She only needed it for the exact same thing you mentioned and I wanted it to have Window's 7. Acer still has Window's 7 and it's been great. Cheaper than an iPad, 500gb storage an 4gb Ram. It's great. Can't give a long term report on how it'll hold up, but hell, it'll last 5 years I have no doubt and will be a dinosaur when it quits.