Need Help Purchasing A Laptop

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by firstdown

Two of you have mention Lenovo I have never heard of them but that's not saying very much. The $400 to $500 price range was what I was thinking but I don't want a piece of crap that fails over and over again. I just don't need all the bells and whistles. I also don't know crap about computers.

Ever hear of the old IBM Thinkpads? The indestructible laptops with the little red trackball in the middle of the keyboard? Lenovo makes them. They go by the Lenovo name now instead of IBM.
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