cheap decent laptop suggestions

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Well I have a cheap p2 compaq laptop that I have been using a lot as of late. Enough that I only turn on my desktop to burn music and such. Well its a poop laptop with no ram and the battery falls out so its not very portable. I use it enough to warrant the purchase of something decent. What would be a good laptop in 500-800 range with some good specs (I don't want to play doom3 maybe just some romz) Just something good enough for fast web surfing and music/dvd playback/ photo shop and the like.
 
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Maybe a Basic Dell Inspirion 1100 or 1150?

Those are starting in the $750 plus range.

Or, check out the Dell Outlet for "refurbed" laptops. Usually these are actually machines that never so much as shipped out. Customer cancelled order and stuff. They typically arrive in new condition. Nothing is currently showing up in the Outlet, but give it a couple days and some stuff will.
 
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I buy nothing but IBM's any more.. and when I buy computers for firms... They come from IBM as well.

Dell is cheap and they make a decent computer, but all the junk they put on them makes me want to spend $200 more for a cleaner computer.

http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/s...1&catalogId=-840&langId=-1&categoryId=2035724

There is the link to IBM's laptops. Of course there are more than that...
you can customize... or find different laptops using their notebook finder.

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A brand new 12-inch Apple iBook starts at $999 and has plenty of power to play your beloved romz, DVD's, and some of the newer game releases.
It comes with a pretty generous software bundle as well...basically you'll have basic applications to do everything you need right out of the box. OSX is fun to use and you'll have problems with spyware and viruses in the long run as well.
 
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