Laptops?, Warning: There may be italics involved. Options

[Twilight Wandere...]

Okay, so here's the deal. I finally got my computer back. Wonderfuls, right? Not really. It's still not fixed, and it still has that god awful Vista still on it.

Well, you found an XP CD while going through your stuff the other day! Why not just use that, right? No. Your father reminds you it's the boot leg copy he gave you that killed your computer thus requiring you to get Vista in the first place.

Well crud. You don't know what to do. He suggests going to a site that sounds extremely phony and looking to see how much Windows 7 is so you can upgrade you computer. But oh. It may not actually be Vista that's the problem, so you'd lose all your data for nothing.

Okay dad. You're really on my poop list right now.

So mom says. Why spend your money fixing something that is broken? Just buy a new laptop. You won't want a desktop when you go off to college in a year anyway.

Oh yeah, I'm doing that, aren't I? Thanks mom. You're not on my poop list.

So anyway. The entire point of that little story was to introduce y'all to why I'm looking at laptops. It's not just for show, I'd like to ask you tech savvy people about what you think is best. ;D

What I'm planning to run on it that I know of are GIMP and Sims 3 with one little expansion pack, maybe more if I get any.

And pictures. Loads and loads of pictures.

This here is my only candidate thus far. I want a laptop basically that can run those applications above and still have a little memory left, if possible. As for money issues, I'll be saving up for this, and my mom said she'll back me up $100.

So, questions, comments, suggestions, etc. I can has them here please.

[Zen Clarke]

... That may be the same site my dad told me about. He said something about Tiger Direct. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalaexdee.gif)

Anyway, please ask your friend, if you can. :B I've heard HP is good, so I'd like one of those. *flashingly dances near her earlier link*

Yeah, that's the one!

Alright. I texted her. Gotta wait for her to respond. >-> *stares at phone*

My dad ordered two laptops from there, and they lasted 4 or 5 years. Then they finally died and he had to get new ones, and they run really well from what I know. He's always playing games on them, and my sister never complains (the second laptop he was ordering was for her).

Ah! She replied before I even hit send. She said "a dm4." I'll look it up. Ah yes. This is it, I believe.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/7875...4_Notebook.html

Okay, this is what she said.

"I only have one expansion pack, but it works. If [you're] wanting to play higher-end games, [you] may want to invest in a better graphics card, but the one it comes with works fine for Sims 3."

So there's an answer as far as running Sims 3 goes. I have no idea about GIMP, though. :\