Hey folks. What kind of lap top puter is good. Don't need a lot of 'extra features'. Hopefully on the lower priced scale. Thanks!;)
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Hey folks. What kind of lap top puter is good. Don't need a lot of 'extra features'. Hopefully on the lower priced scale. Thanks!;)
You could probably get a pretty good deal on a Dell. I had a desktop that lasted me about five years.
After much trial and error, most of the people I know in the legal profession have settled on Dell - they're very reliable and seem to be able to take a lot more of the kind of abuse laptops are subjected to if you travel a lot.
I use a Dell laptop (Latitude D600) that is good. If you shop, you can find a good deal on them, although I think these are more expensive than the typical home user models. Dell has dropped a lot in the last few years with Customer Service, but I'm not ready to quit on them just yet.
Dell Baby! You can also get a used one and not worry about future upgrades.
As everyone else have said so far; Dell. Good prices for a quality product. I have not had any bad experiences when dealing with their support either. But that is in Europe. I don't know how it is overseas.
Other named manufacturers, as Ibm, Fujitsu and Compaq/HP have been to inconsequent and their quality have been to questionable from time to time. So I can't recommend any of them.
Buying from a no-name brand... well, you might be lucky. But it is even a bigger gamble.
But I might be biased, as I am currently sitting in front of an old Dell laptop, writing this. ;) But I have been working with all of the above, from various IT/IS-departments.
I love my Apple PowerBook. :)
Using my Dell laptop to vote; however, my hard drive completely crashed and only had the laptop 2.5 yrs.
I agree with Mojo that Dell's customer service levels of deterioated recently though.
Well I got myself a brand new Compaq Presario notebook for Christmas, and so far I think it's faboo. (I went the build-your-own route through HP's website, rather than buying it retail. That'd be my suggestion if you know what you're looking for, feature-wise.)
I use an Apple PowerBook. They are in a class all by themselves.
Once you go Mac, you'll never go back!
I personally adore my Toshiba.
Thank you, all.!!!!
In my personal opinion (from personal experiance)..........compaq is CRAP CRAP CRAP!!!!!!!!!!! (not meaning to offend)
IBM ThinkPads are the finest laptops made; they have the best build quality (the most important and overlooked feature of a laptop), the best chassis, best wireless implementation (dual antennae in the back of the screen), shock protection for hard drives, Access IBM features, and their UltraLights are just awesome. Not cheap, but easily the best.
Second choice would be Toshiba Satellite series.
thanks again! :)
Unfortunately the quality of a lot of computers are becoming crap crap crap.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToriBaltimore
I'll admit it - I did the "switch."
When my Dell's screen hinge broke and it was slow as a dog in a Lousiana summer I went new notebook hunting. It was seven years old, lived a consultants life, and was due for replacement.
I was looking at Dell, but there was a lot of screaming on the net about Dell's customer service sucking, outsourcing to India, and frankly they let their quality slip.
Lets also add the fascist manner Microsoft has been with their software (registration) as well as the numerous security risks. (Yes, I know the apologists will show up saying that Apple just isn't as popular so it isn't a target and I will counter it is based on FreeBSD UNIX - but the end result is - it has less trouble from the script kiddies out there.)
So I took a deep breath, learned how to use an Apple (lots of internet resources out there once you find em) and have been quite pleased with it so far.
I worked at Dell. Their laptops are NOT quality but they sell enough of them that there are just as many compliments as complaints.
I have a Toshiba and its a clunky piece of crap.
I love my Ibook but had to sell it because bschool software was PC heavy. My next laptop is a Powerbook for sure.
I had an NEC for years and it was fabulous. Are they still around making laptops????
Stay far far away from Compaq anything.......
I've hated any Compaq computers I've come across, included my mom's that I'm using right now.
Heheh, BF and I showed up at Circuit City today, grabbed a copy of Doom 3 and went over to customer service and said "We want a notebook that can run this!" None were under 2k, and with some extras we didn't need [17" screen, for example]. We're leaning towards an AlienWare at this point.
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Originally Posted by Katrine
Nice to hear something contradicting. Would be a little to single sided otherwise. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Deogol
All computers have issues. But Dell has given me the least head aches so far. So thats why I recommend them on the PC side. Screen hinges are to my knowledge the number one issue why a machine will go to the scrap heap. Even Dell has a metall chell now. But isn't all of the metal models high end, high price?
Have not had enough experience with Apples. But my experience so far when comparing PC to Mac are, if you only will work with things that the Mac is good at, you should pic an Apple. But if you ever want to do anything outside what they offer, it are basically stuck. PC on the other hand have cover more, so they are more of an even pain.
Wow, lots of responses! Katrine, where/what brand did you get? Not sure I've heard of I book. Nec. Thanks
An iBook is an Apple notebook. Starts at $999.Quote:
Originally Posted by whirlerz
I feared this when I switched. I found out it was a false fear to worry about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Swede
Since Apple went UNIX, it does have a lot of open source these days, and I am one of those people who can compile from source. So, I may not be the "average" computer user.
But, like many others, when I compile up a program, I tend to leave the binary available on the internet so others simply download and run it.
Whenever someone says there is no software for Apple, I send em here:
or here
One simply needs to look in different places and accept the software might have a different name.
I had a NEC, too, Katrine. I agree. It was nice.
Got an H-P now, works just great. For unavoidable reasons, I have to stick with a Windows system.
Either DELL, which is what I have and love and never had any trouble with, or go for a Mac... but Ibook or Powerbook are more expensive and I think you mentioned, prize does matter.
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