Laptop for my Sister-in-law
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 12:45 pm
My brother has decided to get a laptop for his wife for Christmas, she is currently using an emachines with 352 Celly (yaaaay I own't have to work on that relic anymore haha). Just about anything will be a massive step up but I want to help him find the best possible laptop for his budget. He says he can go up to $400 and would like to get it at a B&M so that restricts me to Sams' Club, Walmart, OfficeMax, or BestBuy.
She lives for scrapbooking. She is always working on projects with pictures and scrapbooking programs so that is what I would like to gear the specs to. He went into the new Sams Club in Wentzville and saw an HP G7 (Win8) with the A6-4400m cpu and HD7520G graphics that the M$ rep almost sold him on, but I talked him into waiting to see what I could come up with for his budget. For her purposes, would she be better served with a stronger Intel CPU and lesser graphics (like i3/i5 with either HD3000 or HD400) or lesser CPU and stronger discrete graphics (the A4/A6 line with 6xxx/7xxx)?
She has never used Win7 at all, so she would be jumping from XP to either Win7 or Win8. Either way she will have to learn a new way of navigating her O/S. I am thinking that all the Lappies with Win7 will start getting drastic clearance reductions for the upcoming holidays, so should he try to find something previous generation and Win7 on sale or go ahead and get her the newest generation Intel or AMD Laptop with Win8? And should he wait longer until a little closer to Christmas (Black Friday or later) for better deals on what is currently out there? Thanks for any help, Laptops are not my forte so all I know is what I have gleaned from googling.
She lives for scrapbooking. She is always working on projects with pictures and scrapbooking programs so that is what I would like to gear the specs to. He went into the new Sams Club in Wentzville and saw an HP G7 (Win8) with the A6-4400m cpu and HD7520G graphics that the M$ rep almost sold him on, but I talked him into waiting to see what I could come up with for his budget. For her purposes, would she be better served with a stronger Intel CPU and lesser graphics (like i3/i5 with either HD3000 or HD400) or lesser CPU and stronger discrete graphics (the A4/A6 line with 6xxx/7xxx)?
She has never used Win7 at all, so she would be jumping from XP to either Win7 or Win8. Either way she will have to learn a new way of navigating her O/S. I am thinking that all the Lappies with Win7 will start getting drastic clearance reductions for the upcoming holidays, so should he try to find something previous generation and Win7 on sale or go ahead and get her the newest generation Intel or AMD Laptop with Win8? And should he wait longer until a little closer to Christmas (Black Friday or later) for better deals on what is currently out there? Thanks for any help, Laptops are not my forte so all I know is what I have gleaned from googling.