Comments on: Black Friday: Toshiba Satellite L305-S5894 for $479 at Office Depot http://notebooks.com/2008/11/24/black-friday-toshiba-satellitel305-s5894-office-depot/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=black-friday-toshiba-satellitel305-s5894-office-depot Notebooks and Laptops News, Deals and Reviews Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:31:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Benjamin Vander Jagt http://notebooks.com/2008/11/24/black-friday-toshiba-satellitel305-s5894-office-depot/#comment-5790 Benjamin Vander Jagt Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:53:57 +0000 http://www.notebooks.com/?p=1907#comment-5790 It may seem counterintuitive, but build-wise, black-friday laptop computers are just about the best you can get. Excellent examples are the Acer Aspire 3680 and 5315, which you can find "broken" for a good price, but usually just have smashed screens or busted power jacks, as opposed to high-end laptops that have poor BGA solder joints. I work on thousands of laptops each year, and the dirt-cheap $200 and $300 models are the most reliable bits of hardware. I buy them for myself whenever I can. There's also usually very little difference between the budget model and the high-end variant from the same company. The laptop in the article, for instance, will gladly take a $30 Core 2 Duo chip for a quick performance upgrade and battery life extension. It has the right components for a Core 2 Quad upgrade, but I've never tried it, so I can't say for sure whether it would work. It may seem counterintuitive, but build-wise, black-friday laptop computers are just about the best you can get. Excellent examples are the Acer Aspire 3680 and 5315, which you can find “broken” for a good price, but usually just have smashed screens or busted power jacks, as opposed to high-end laptops that have poor BGA solder joints. I work on thousands of laptops each year, and the dirt-cheap $200 and $300 models are the most reliable bits of hardware. I buy them for myself whenever I can.

There’s also usually very little difference between the budget model and the high-end variant from the same company. The laptop in the article, for instance, will gladly take a $30 Core 2 Duo chip for a quick performance upgrade and battery life extension. It has the right components for a Core 2 Quad upgrade, but I’ve never tried it, so I can’t say for sure whether it would work.

]]> By: Benjamin Vander Jagt http://notebooks.com/2008/11/24/black-friday-toshiba-satellitel305-s5894-office-depot/#comment-5791 Benjamin Vander Jagt Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:53:00 +0000 http://www.notebooks.com/?p=1907#comment-5791 It may seem counterintuitive, but build-wise, black-friday laptop computers are just about the best you can get. Excellent examples are the Acer Aspire 3680 and 5315, which you can find "broken" for a good price, but usually just have smashed screens or busted power jacks, as opposed to high-end laptops that have poor BGA solder joints. I work on thousands of laptops each year, and the dirt-cheap $200 and $300 models are the most reliable bits of hardware. I buy them for myself whenever I can. There's also usually very little difference between the budget model and the high-end variant from the same company. The laptop in the article, for instance, will gladly take a $30 Core 2 Duo chip for a quick performance upgrade and battery life extension. It has the right components for a Core 2 Quad upgrade, but I've never tried it, so I can't say for sure whether it would work. It may seem counterintuitive, but build-wise, black-friday laptop computers are just about the best you can get. Excellent examples are the Acer Aspire 3680 and 5315, which you can find “broken” for a good price, but usually just have smashed screens or busted power jacks, as opposed to high-end laptops that have poor BGA solder joints. I work on thousands of laptops each year, and the dirt-cheap $200 and $300 models are the most reliable bits of hardware. I buy them for myself whenever I can.

There’s also usually very little difference between the budget model and the high-end variant from the same company. The laptop in the article, for instance, will gladly take a $30 Core 2 Duo chip for a quick performance upgrade and battery life extension. It has the right components for a Core 2 Quad upgrade, but I’ve never tried it, so I can’t say for sure whether it would work.

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