New laptop on its way

firetruckguy

OK all you techie BORK's out there, I orderd a new laptop last week for my new business and it shipped today! HP Pavilion dv6, custom built it on their website. i3 prosesor, 6 gigs ram, 500 gig hard drive, Microsoft office home and business loaded. And the best thing...... FIRE ENGINE RED! I will be running quickbooks on it and use the outlook all the time, other then that I just wanted a good laptop that will last a while. How did I do?

lcpleel

depends on the price. but for your quickbooks and outlook? That should last you a vvvery long time.

firetruckguy

850$ shipped. Figured I woul do it right the first time.

JCizzle

6 gigs of RAM, good god!! I'd say you did well.

stephen_hannibal

Wow, that's a pretty hefty machine for those two programs.

Luko

I have an ipad 32gb with 3g and wifi on the way. Can't wait.

JCizzle

I've got a Commodore 64 on the way, supposed to be pretty powerful.

stephen_hannibal

JCizzle:

I've got a Commodore 64 on the way, supposed to be pretty powerful.

HA HA HA

xmacro

If you're doing some gaming with the latest releases, that rig should last you 1-2 years at least; if you don't need to have the latest and greatest, it'll last you 5 years at the very least, longer if you take care of it (ie - spyware scan, virus scan, don't click on emails promising overnight millions/phallus enlargement, etc)

ShotgunJohn

Sounds like a good machine for the money, the Intel "I" chips are great. I would recommend bypassing Norton/McAffee and going with Kaspersky Internet Security 2011.

I have been using KIS for about 6 years and it works great.

firetruckguy

Awesome! Got her in today and I have to say so far pretty damn nice. I am not smart enough to set up outlook..... so i guess ill have to wait on that part. All in all Im a happy camper.

YankeeMan

JCizzle:

I've got a Commodore 64 on the way, supposed to be pretty powerful.

The scary thing is that I am old enough to remember when that was the top of the line!

Joeyjoe21_8

you did great...wish i knew you were buying a HP...my gfs whole family works for them and some are managers and could have hooked you up....but congrats..

firetruckguy

Joeyjoe21_8:

you did great...wish i knew you were buying a HP...my gfs whole family works for them and some are managers and could have hooked you up....but congrats..

Thanks man, she is pretty damn nice. Love that the battery lasts over 5 hours. Still have trouble with loading outlook.....need someone smarter then me.