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| Our crappy desktop computer is finally going bye bye.
I want to replace it with a basic but quality laptop. We do most of our internet browsing on our phones but with a growing side business I need to be able to track things for taxes and create invoices and quotes etc, I’d really like to be able to use Quickbooks.
It doesn’t sound like a cheap Chromebook is going to be able to do what I need it to, we don’t have internet at the house and just use our phones, which aren’t always the quickest so I’d rather have the desktop Quickbooks vs the cloud...
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Location: Kansas | I really like my HP touchscreen laptop. |
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| I have an HP touchscreen laptop too which I like. It just takes forever to start up, so I leave it on all the time. |
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Location: Southeastern Idaho | We just purchased a new laptop for the ranch. Lenovo ideapad for around 400.00 dollars from Best Buy. We do not need a ton of bells and whistles. Mostly internet access and spreadsheets. We do use Quickbooks on the ideapad. Everything we looked at had a touchscreen now, as does this one. So far so good. I work online from home and have 2 Lenovo's. A Thinkpad that work bought me and a Yoga that I purchased. Like them both.
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| Trying to avoid the touchscreen...having trouble doing that but I had one on my old work laptop and it did nothing but annoy me...mostly because of the work I did and people always touching it to point things out on maps...but it made me not like them!!! Haha |
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Location: Southeastern Idaho | I don't like them either! My Yoga and the Ideapad have touchscreens and we haven't used them once. I hate gunky looking screens. No finger prints here. |
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| I just purchased an ASUS laptop a few months ago thinking my heavy old Dell laptop was aging. I miss the Dell, a lot. The ASUS is bigger and lghter with a full keyboard and 10-key but it is slow to boot up, and slow to run. It does what I need it to do but my 7 year old Dell is faster. In hindsight I should have gone to Costco and bought an HP or something with a faster processor. Hindsight you know. Good luck! |
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Location: Deep South | My sister and I both bought the touchscreen HP laptops for school and within 2 years both had completely crapped out. These were lightly used, internet searching, writing papers and such. I was pretty disappointed. |
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Location: Southern Indiana | BamaCanChaser - 2018-01-03 12:11 PM
My sister and I both bought the touchscreen HP laptops for school and within 2 years both had completely crapped out. These were lightly used, internet searching, writing papers and such. I was pretty disappointed.
I hate my hp as well. It works but I never use it. I wish I’d got another dell instead. Mine is nearly 10 years old and still works. |
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Location: Nebraska | I have a Microsoft Surface and absolutely hate it. It's been better since whatever update but I have had nothing but problems since I got the darn thing. |
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| brlracerchick - 2018-01-03 1:44 PM
I have a Microsoft Surface and absolutely hate it. It's been better since whatever update but I have had nothing but problems since I got the darn thing.
I don’t think I can run the desktop version of Quickbooks on one of those so not an option...
So far I think Dell is winning, which that’s what my last 2 work laptops have been and I’ve been pleased. |
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Location: SW North Dakota | I had a high end HP laptop (non-touch screen) that I bought 5 years ago and LOVED. Someone stepped on it this summer and broke the screen, so I went to WalMart and bought a $500 HP touchscreen laptop. I hate it, and want to cry over the loss of my old HP all over again! It's miserably slow and a nightmare to use. I am looking, too. |
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Location: Louisiana | I have a Toshiba that I like. Not sure the model but it's touchscreen and disconnects from the keyboard to make a big (giant) tablet. I don't use those features LOL, but it's lasted me a few years now.
I got it from Best Buy. It was a return. So the seal was broken on the box, but they go in and "test" them before selling again. Anyway, it was like 1/2 price and a much better computer than what I went in looking to get, i.e, the cheapest one LOL.
So I guess my suggestion is to ask about any returns they may have. And I have always gotten good sales service from the computer side at Best Buy...just tell them what you're going to be doing with it and you want cheaper but functional. |
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| I have a bunch of inexpensive Dell laptops at school. They have been dropped and everything else. I bought one that was nicer for myself. I do like it. Will never have another HP. Junky. |
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Good Ole Boys just Fine with Me
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Location: SE Missouri | I have a Microsoft surface, HP touch screen desktop (the slim line kind- just screen and wireless keyboard & mouse), and a Samsung laptop (probably 3-4years old). My surface and the HP are my favorite. I’ve been working w/surface for 3 years so I’ve gotten use to it and really like the flexibility with it.
I did love my Dell and it lasted for 8years or so! |
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