Buying a new laptop - Page 3

Originally Posted by adambparker 

Thanks for all the recommendations, everyone. I'm pretty much decided on a Lenovo, and the T-series looks like it fits my needs best. The 14.1-inch screen will probably be more comfortable than the 12.5-inch X230.
I'm looking at the T430 and am wondering if anyone can weigh in on a couple options:
1) is the standard i3-2370M processor good enough, or is it worth and extra $30 for the i5-3210M processor (or $50 for the i5-3320M)?
2) 1366x768 display v. 1600x900
3) it's $160 to upgrade from 4GB to 8GB of memory - will it make a difference for pretty basic use?
4) built-in 720p HD camera - decent price for $30?
5) hard-drive: standard is 320GB (7200 rpm) - it's $10 to upgrade to 500 GB (5400 rpm) and $40 to upgrade to 500 GB (7200 rpm)
If anyone has thoughts on the value of the add-ons, that would be wonderful. The base price with the coupons on Lenovo's website is around $650, which seems like a good deal.
Thanks again.

Originally Posted by Concordia 

I'm mulling over the notion of a new laptop, and Lenovo keeps coming up as a high-quality choice.
Apart from basic surfing and MS Office kinds of things, the most exotic chore I'm likely to be doing is managing audio downloads/conversions, and perhaps video once I get the audio junk figured out. That plus the odd bout of video games for the kids. Is there an attribute especially useful (or harmful) to this set of chores?
On a related note, Firefox just froze up in my Netbook while I was trying to download iTunes. The iTunes box just sits there, and won't close. Even control/alt/delete won't work. When I try to open Firefox up it says "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system."
Any suggestions that don't involve crushing it under my car?

Originally Posted by badsha 

Right click on the bottom task bar and start task manager --> under applications find firefox --> click on go to process --> Right click and end process. Should kill Firefox. If its truly frozen, power down the notebook.