I need help with finding a new laptop. I'll mainly use it on the road, so it should be relatively (14" or under) small and have a good battery life. My budget is $500. I've been looking at the Lenovo x131e or a refurbished Thinkpad T43. Any other ideas?
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Anonymous2012-08-30 16:48
you could try a google laptop... one with the crome os?
or any used laptop, like check out a pawnshop? and buy a new battery for it
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Anonymous2012-09-01 15:22
Thinkpad.
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Medic2012-09-09 5:42
Lenovo IdeaPads and ThinkPads are extremely good computers. I was running a Lenovo IdeaPad Y510, but it's extremely large. I'm now running a Dell Latitude D610 (An extreme downgrade from the Lenovo of course, but I also have a gaming desktop now so I don't mind too much. I mostly use it for web browsing and programming) which works fairly well as long as you aren't doing any type of gaming or memory-intensive things on it. It comes stock with 1GB of RAM, but you could always upgrade to 2GB if you need more. From what I remember, it came with Windows XP, but I'm running Debain Linux now so I wouldn't really know.
There are very few new laptops that have all of these features with a starting price of $500 or below, but maybe a preferable one for you is the HP Mini 110-4250n, or the Lenovo IdeaPad S205, or maybe the Dell Inspiron 14z.
If none of the new laptops fit your needs, then try buying a cheap, older one that still fits your needs.
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Anonymous2012-09-17 21:21
I would recommend purchasing a Thinkpad X series, but not a new one. Anything from the past three generations or so should have good enough specs, but make sure you get one with SATA III, as you will _definitely_ want a SSD later on. You will need to get something somewhat recent if you prefer touchpad use, though, as the X201 was the first one to include something besides a TrackPoint, IIRC.
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Anon2012-10-02 16:28
Lenovo ThinkPad. Grab an external terrabyte and a 5 GB pendrive as well. First thing you should do when you get it use someone elses computer to grab a portable version of Linux and download it to your pendrive. Then open CMD or CML or Terminal on your ThinkPad and Low-Format your hard disk. Then plug in your flashdrive and run the OS installation extension using the run command on whatever current OS your using. Then buy a VPN and delete any system caches before you use it. Use someone elses computer to grab Symantec on your pen and install that through your command line as well. Again delete system caches. Disable logging on EVERY part of your machine. Then use someone elses computer to grab a permanent min. 30GB transfer VPN and configure that on your system. Delete caches. There you go=virtual invisibility.