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Originally Posted by Si
I would go with a cheap core i3 acer. They last forever got 3 at my house one is 5 years old one is 3 years and another is fairly new.
Never crashed or had any hardware problems.
Battery power does seem to drop off with regular use though. 3 hour battery on this one is now about 90 minutes.
Don't buy a Toshiba.....
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I recommend the exact opposite.. every review site there is has acers labelled as disasters. they overheat, all of them, they have serious mechanical problems, meaning the folding part will break up on you within a year with moderate use. The only thing that was good about this thing was it was dirt cheap...
I've had two toshibas over the past 4 years. One was a 2 year old model that was a bit of a beast, loud fan etc... but it kept cool and ran perfectly well for another 2 years, in fact the only reason i switched because i needed more power... battery life was fine as well. My new toshiba is a lot quieter for the fan, keeps cool, have never had any mechanical issues with it despite lots of use.. so you can't go wrong with these things.. the speakers aren't exactly the best, but if you have headphones that isn't an issue. The ones i get range around 4-500 canadian, probably around 350-400 american.