best place to buy laptop?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:44:07AM -0500, Giles Orr wrote:
> Best Buy is good for getting a feel for what's available and seeing
> what looks good or feels good.  Future Shop has a slightly worse
> selection, but they also have staff on commission (which BB doesn't
> have) and they can be a bit pushy.  While both tend to have
> exceptionally high prices they do occasionally run very deeply
> discounted specials, so I do buy there every once in a while.  But if
> your heart is set on Asus/Lenovo I don't think you'll find either in
> the hallowed halls of BB/FS.

Bestbuy sells asus.  Note however that you can't get them serviced by
the downtown toronto location if you buy it at best buy for some reason.

> I have the impression that a lot of places are selling their left-over
> stock with Windows Vista installed at discount prices: you'll probably
> want to avoid this if the end user is actually planning on using
> Windows.  Windows 7 sounds like a better bet.  Of course if you're
> planning on installing Linux, take the discount.

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