Laptop recommendations?

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by Macfanforever

Yes they make electronics cheap now.If you are lucky to got a couple of years out of the product.I just went through my second Nikon Coolpix.They have those cheap doors as a lens cap broke on this one.As for Sony camcorders. I repaired the LCD viewfinder flex wire 3 times.Now its acting up again.

$249 for a laptop is a great price.I should get one for the road.I could of done wifi updates on here of my Stevie travels last july with it.plus edit photos and vids I takin' at the shows.

Yeah, a couple of years is about all you can expect out of cheap electronics(smartphones included). I'm convinced what actually killed my last laptop was my desktop PC. Haha. My PC died, and while it was being repaired, I was using my laptop on the couch(I always use a desktop on my coffee table[mission control! lol]), while accidentally falling asleep. The laptop crashed to my ceramic tile floor. The hinge was creaking the next day, and it died the death less than 24 hours later.
But yeah, the mouse had broken about a year into having it, and I had to carry an external USB mouse, because the left clicker wouldn't work.
I'm glad it died, though. The new one is smaller and lighter(last one had a 17" screen. While that may be great for porn, it's too big to carry around!).

It's amazing how cheap they are now, if you look back 10 years ago!