About Your Money
Often times this is where I used to see customers get caught up the most. They come into the store with a price range in their head thinking "I'm going to walk out of here with a brand new, FAST, laptop and only spend like $300-500."
WRONG!
If you want a decent laptop, that is fast, and that will last beyond 3 years or more that price range will get you stuck in the same place. It's like if you have a 94' Honda and you end up buying a 96' Toyota. (Not that much of an upgrade if you're spending so much money) I always told my customers, the laptop that you think you want, really costs between $599-699. These are the ones that have just enough under the hood to work to your expectations. The laptops that are $699 and up are like buying the luxury version of laptops. They'll have more bells and whistles. They may have Blu-Ray Players, more memory, hard drive space, or Finger Print scanners. All those things are nice IF you can afford it, and if you WANT it.Yes, I said that more memory and hard drive space are bells and whistles. Reason being is that those things can be upgraded at any time, usually for much cheaper price. Sometimes, there is no need to have 4 GB of memory and 750 GB of hard drive space if you really don't need it. I would say that for the average user who only does word processing, some internet browsing, and maybe even listen to some music, then at minimum find a computer that has maybe 2-3 GB of memory. If a year down the road you find it's getting slow, then you can upgrade the memory for maybe $80 ($40 for the memory/ $40 for install) or less. Same goes for the hard drive. You only need a bigger hard drive if you are saving and downloading alot of really big files like videos and TONS of music.
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