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BearMountainBooks · 12-31-2016, 06:37 PM

Thanks Cromag! We went to Best Buy today to play "process of elimination" and I decided on...Lenovo! I tried out the keyboards and the mouse buttons/look feel/etc. I despise the extra number pad because of the way I type. I need to be centered and those things throw that off. But the keyboard that felt best was Lenovo by a fairly large margin (it was really down to Lenovo or HP unless some other brand like Toshibo showed up. But there weren't any on display there or OfficeMax.)

I'm currently browsing sites for mainly the 520 because I'd like 15 inches, but I'm seeing better deals on the 410 family. Good to know it's a worth a look. I'm not sure about going 14 inches because my eyes are bad and I already have to zoom on a lot of pages so I'm leaning toward 520 and getting an 11 inch for travel (those can be had for 100 dollars in the used market from what I"m seeing.)

Thanks for the input. Husband is pretty leery of buying used, but that is where I"m seeing the most bang for my buck. The 410 and 520 series are only occasionally showing up at Frys and newegg as refurb'd and they aren't "loaded" with much memory or HD for the prices.

12-31-2016, 06:37 PM	#708
BearMountainBooks Maria Schneider Posts: 3,746 Karma: 26439330 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Near Austin, Texas Device: 3g Kindle Keyboard	Thanks Cromag! We went to Best Buy today to play "process of elimination" and I decided on...Lenovo! I tried out the keyboards and the mouse buttons/look feel/etc. I despise the extra number pad because of the way I type. I need to be centered and those things throw that off. But the keyboard that felt best was Lenovo by a fairly large margin (it was really down to Lenovo or HP unless some other brand like Toshibo showed up. But there weren't any on display there or OfficeMax.) I'm currently browsing sites for mainly the 520 because I'd like 15 inches, but I'm seeing better deals on the 410 family. Good to know it's a worth a look. I'm not sure about going 14 inches because my eyes are bad and I already have to zoom on a lot of pages so I'm leaning toward 520 and getting an 11 inch for travel (those can be had for 100 dollars in the used market from what I"m seeing.) Thanks for the input. Husband is pretty leery of buying used, but that is where I"m seeing the most bang for my buck. The 410 and 520 series are only occasionally showing up at Frys and newegg as refurb'd and they aren't "loaded" with much memory or HD for the prices.