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Originally Posted by JERRY2KONE
If I have learned one thing it is that you can make just about any laptop last a long time if you truly take care of it, and keep your anti-virus up to date. Its pretty easy today with automatic updates as long as you keep your software current.
Considering your first post about considering $1800 for a laptop I would just get yourself a decent Toshiba, Lanovo, or HP laptop for around $700, and then build yourself a pretty nice desktop to do all of your household PC stuff including the home theater setup. We have a ten year old Compaq desktop in the kids TV room for a media PC, and they stream all of the TV shows they want and listen to music anytime they feel the need. I have a home made desktop as our Command Center that controls all of our network needs and keeps an eye on everything the kids are up to computer wise. Trust me you don't need a $2000 laptop to be satisfied. deversify and this way you have a back up in case anything goes wrong. Use a portable HDD and do periodic backups and you will never run into a problem with a dead PC again. Hell you can get a terribite Passport that fits into your shirt pocket for under $100. If that is not big enough to store your backup data needs, then you need to be using a server.
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I just remembered there is Fry's about 30 miles south of us. I'm going to run down there as soon as I come to grips with the fact that the Seaflops have no chance of winning.....
Like I said before, I do plan to build a HTPC. Honestly though, that's going to be a while down the road. Gotta get the room finished first (its all framed and mostly wired. Got some additional house electrical to wrap up before I can start soundproofing and sheetrocking).
My idea of using this as a part time HTPC is if I've got video that I'd like to watch on the big screen, I can just send it wirelessly to it as needed. But that might be a naive look at it - not sure if I have the correct equipment yet to receive wireless like that (I think my PS3 can do that...)
I agree with the antivirus. I've been very happy just using the Microsoft Defender system. The only times I've ever had any issues is with XP updates. Just restore back to previous config and good to go.