What is the BEST laptop for under $500 today?

Neildo_64 · Post by **Neildo_64** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 11:50 pm

What is the best laptop I can get for ~$500?

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 12:10 am

My Macbook? PM for info lol

ian2120 · Post by **ian2120** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 7:41 am

lol

Valium · Post by **Valium** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 7:50 am

Depends what you're looking for.

Jimmyg1995 · Post by **Jimmyg1995** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 8:13 am

Here is a good laptop black friday deal at best buy (better get up early): http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp ... 8011772901

khaag · Post by **khaag** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 8:24 am

eeePC!

(Probably not really, I just think they're neato)

Post by **bicostp** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 9:56 am

Don't bother with a Netbook as a primary laptop. Sure they're tiny, but you'll kick yourself later if you want to do anything more than read web pages due to their low specs. (I don't think Asus has put the Atom into the Eee yet, anyway...)

I have an HP dv5000 with 1 gig of RAM, mobility Radeon 200M, and a 2.0 ghz Turion 64. It can run Team Fortress 2 with everything on low in DirectX 8 mode at about 20 FPS with 30 people on the server. It spikes to about 80 when I'm alone in 2fort. (It has to run in DX 8 mode due to a fluke in that graphics chipset; running Source 2007 games on it gives you a corrupt blue screen after a couple minutes and the system hard-resets.)

I think it was around $600 new, but that was a couple years ago.

Motoman · Post by **Motoman** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 10:44 pm

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi ... -%20%24500

Newegg.com says hi. Go crazy

Mario · Post by **Mario** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 11:26 pm

OLPC.

Just kidding.

wallydawg · Post by **wallydawg** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 11:49 pm

Jimmyg1995 wrote:Here is a good laptop black friday deal at best buy (better get up early): http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp ... 8011772901

thats the one I was looking at. On the way home from my cousins house for the thanksgiving festivities (at

there was already a pretty good line so I guess I'm out of luck lol