I went to Best Buy last night and again this morning just to look around. (Haven't been to MMD yet.) I forgot to bring my notes and ended up looking at Dell instead of HP. Anyway, it seemed as though Dell was one of the best ones they had at $879.99
Dell Core i5-4200U Processor Laptop
Screen size: 17.3"
8GB DDR3
Hard Drive 750 GB
Touch screen
Intel Turbo Best Technology 1600X900 HD+
Backlit Keyboard
Intel Wireless
Windows 8
I don't remember seeing any HP computers. Next time I go I'll see if they have any. There are so many computers it gets confusing. And I spent a lot of time trying to get them to work. Friday night it took me about an hour just to figure out how to do a few simple things. This morning I practiced a for about another hour and learned a little more. Ugh!
One thing I noticed is that the colors on the screen are not as crisp as I think they should be. For example, I went to this website (
www.talkofthevillages.com) and the green borders seemed dull or washed out. Afterward, someone told me that the color needs to be adjusted. Geez, if that's the case, why don't they do it?
Another thing: I went to
Yahoo and didn't see any place to click on for a stock market update. Why would that be different from what I normally get?
Apps: I don't understand the purpose or how it works. They seem to make a big deal of it (it seems like it's one of the main features) but I don't know why I would need it.
When it's wireless, I understand you could use it in a library without needing to subscribe to online service. If so, do they all come with a regular electrical cord to plug in? When I looked at the back of a Dell computer, it had a different type of cord.
I would have asked someone but they (sales clerks) all looked like they were busy and I didn't want to bother them from the important things they might have been doing.
I was there for over an hour and no one asked me if I needed any help. Maybe they mistakenly thought I knew what I was doing. At one point there were three of them talking among themselves, in back of me, but I don't know what that was about.