Budget notebooks?

What's the downside to having cheaper laptops? I have a Acer 3002 aspire, nothing is really wrong with it but then, I want to sell it and get a thinkpad (used) off ebay for $700, mainly becuase I think it has better build quality and is smaller than my notebook which is kinda big.

I know cheaper notebooks have slower hard drive, not so good memory, slower processors, intergrated graphics cards and so forth but you can upgrade most of that stuff to better specs.....

I've always that laptops were basically broken up into 2 sides - those who play games on it and those who don't....

So please no flaming and someone give me a quicker rundown as to why they wouldn't buy a budget laptop?

thanks.

 

Militant the thing is with laptops it's not like desktops.

You can't just look at the specs, you have to check out reviews and user feedback to see the build quality. With desktops you can just put all the hardware into a cardboard box and run it if you want, but laptops the chassis really matters.

Also since you can't just choose any screen, the screen(panel) quality also matters, this is why people pay the premiums for Quality laptops.

Thing is you can go budget and still get a really good build quality laptop. From who you ask? Some guy next to me is using a Compaq which I've seen before and it seems okay to me, but you can get a budget Asus and it would be of equal or better build quality.

A lot of Asus' last generation laptops are dropping in prices because they are EOL (End of Life) products, meaning they've stopped production. You can find great prices on a Z63A, which is built like a rock and has a fantastic keyboard, and screen.

Check it out, the prices onilne for a Z63A are very close to those budget **** laptops.

So it's like getting a porsche gt2 for only 50 000~!!!! Imagine that.

 

The downside is they won't last as long because they are built to a cheaper standard.

 

hey ZAZ don't afraid we want ask u any question

 

The presumed inferior build quality of the budget notebooks isn't such a big issue if the notebook is being used as a compact desktop and rarely moved around. However, it may not last as well if it gets packed up, unpacked and moved around a lot.

Budget notebooks also tend to use less expensive components which may have lower performance, but that performance may be adequate for many uses.

John

 

It all depends. You pretty much get what you pay for.

Although a $500 laptop today is going to be vastly superior to a $500 laptop from just a few years ago.

And as for build quality, you're going to have to read reviews to determine that. You shouldn't assume that because you payed a lot of money for something that it's quality...