Im looking for a good laptop i dont wanna spend a crap load of money.. i have to have one for school nad everything nad im about to get it with my loan money for school does anyone know anything about laptops and what a good one is.. ive heard that hp is a really good one but im not sure.. so if anyone knows anything just let me know please please.. Thanks so much!!.. Hayley

I have an HP with the upgraded screen size. I didn't buy the most expensive one because they said those are most beneficial to gamers. I ended up with a medium priced computer and I really like it.

We have two laptops in our household. I use an Acer and we also have a Dell. The Dell was a little bit more expensive but I much prefer my Acer.

I just got my Dell Vostro 1000 on this black friday sale. It features: AMD Athlon TM 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Processor TK-53, 15.4 inch Wide Screen LCD, 2GB DDR2 SDRAM, 120GB 5400RPM Hard Drive. Here is some more specs and reviews:
http://www.conita.com/Computers/Dell-Computers/Dell-Vostro-1000-Notebook-Review.html
It's still there and the price doesn't changed, you can look up
http://www.dealstudio.com/viewtopic.php?t=34186
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It mainly depends on what you are planning on using the laptop for. The least expensive laptops are good for most word processing, office, and internet surfing tasks. Higher end laptops are intended for use with processor and memory intensive programs for things such as digital editing of media and gaming.