Posted: 2/6/2005 5:32:46 PM EDT
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Im looking to get a notebook for school and was wondering which brands are good and which to stay away from. Thanks Jason |
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IBM is great for Notebooks. Think about it. Your notebook by definition is not high performance but high mobility, so get one where the case and all of the components will last not how fast it is for the cash. I had a compaq and it fell apart in 2 years.Am now a new owner of a T42P |
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Compaq/HP = No Go Dell = Best Bang for the Buck IBM = Best one out there (for now - is being sold to a Chinese company), but also the most expensive Sony = No Go Toshiba = Used to be one of the best out there, seems to have not kept pace Anyway you go, definitely get the 3 year warranty (trust me). Oh, and either be really careful or get some kind of insurance. If you break the LCD through negligence, you're pretty much screwed (you'll have to pay to have it fixed and since it's one of the, if not the, most expensive single part, many times it's cheaper to buy a whole new laptop than pay for a replacement and repair fees). |
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get a dell.. I have a dell 600 I got new.. <seems like ages ago... > it is now my "truck comp" .. it goes every where with me.. I drop it < not really bad.... but bad for a laptop> I abuse and mistreat it.. its my " im bored while waiting for the kids to get out of school enteranment system " its my " truck mp3 system ...[THAT AND A TAPE APAPTER..}"  its my " I dont n kow what this virus does... let me try it in the dell "  < currently I am on the shitter .. .. GOTTA GO.. i NEED TO WIPE MY ASS.... > |
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You can get pretty decent performance in a notebook if you're willing to pay for it. Me and most of the people I work with use notebooks pretty much exclusively, and have given up entirely on desktops except for servers or very high performance. If you're a gamer you'll probably want a desktop, but you can get notebooks that run year or two old games pretty well. You need to think about what you want. Personally, since it is my exclusive machine during the day, I value a big screen, UGXA. Other people value battery life or small size. I've been buying Dells lately. They're OK. They've had a few annoying glitches. If you want a laptop Unix that works, the Macs are very, very tough to beat. Very popular in the CS world. |