Do you own your software? (Word, etc.) If so, you can buy just a basic comes-with-only-Windows model. Computers bundled with software are more expensive.
I buy Lenovo computers through Amazon, mostly. Lenovo used to be IBM: they aren't flashy, but they are solid and have good battery life. There's nothing that I want to do (word processing, image editing, video editing, etc.*) that I can't. If possible, I suggest buying online (probably cheaper) but visit a shop to get a feel for the actual machine, the keyboard and such. Right now I have a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E420 (actually, I have two, one at home and one at work. I used to have a darling lenovo netbook that commuted in my bicycle basket... and I think that's what killed it *sadface*).
* I do however use all free software: OpenOffice, GIMP, WMM, Opera and Firefox for browsers, Thunderbird for email. So my space requirements are less than MS Office, I think.
With the right cable (whimpers) I can connect easily to the overhead projector in my classroom. I do need actually two cables (one for video, one for audio) but that may be because the A/V stuff was put in about 15 years ago.
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Date: 2014-01-14 11:34 am (UTC)I buy Lenovo computers through Amazon, mostly. Lenovo used to be IBM: they aren't flashy, but they are solid and have good battery life. There's nothing that I want to do (word processing, image editing, video editing, etc.*) that I can't. If possible, I suggest buying online (probably cheaper) but visit a shop to get a feel for the actual machine, the keyboard and such. Right now I have a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E420 (actually, I have two, one at home and one at work. I used to have a darling lenovo netbook that commuted in my bicycle basket... and I think that's what killed it *sadface*).
* I do however use all free software: OpenOffice, GIMP, WMM, Opera and Firefox for browsers, Thunderbird for email. So my space requirements are less than MS Office, I think.
With the right cable (whimpers) I can connect easily to the overhead projector in my classroom. I do need actually two cables (one for video, one for audio) but that may be because the A/V stuff was put in about 15 years ago.