Help me please??? desperately need some sage advice?

Question

I just got a Gateway m-6843 notebook as a gift. From all the reviews, it seems like a good laptop. Very fast, 160 gb hard drive and 3 gig ram. It's equipped withe windows Vista and SP1. I'm not going to need to use it this school year though. I wont have access to wireless and there are computers to use for reports etc. Should I return it, get a gift card, and then the next schoolyear, buy another laptop. Is it with it to do that or should I keep the laptop?

Answer 1

If you can, then yes. Why let a laptop sit around and depreciate for a whole year? I hardly ever used mine, and just relied on my older desktop. That was a real waste, and I had to sell at a heavy loss because it was a crummy Acer. In the future, I'd suggest you buy an ultraportable like an MSI Wind for about 400$, then have a desktop in your room for "serious" computing tasks like holding all your media files.

Answer 2

I just purchased the Gateway m-6843 at BestBuy.  Although I think it's a great laptop for the price, computer technology changes rapidly.   If you have no need for it now, exchange it for the gift card.. Next year you'll be able to purchase a better laptop for the same price or the same laptop for less.