Posted: 1/25/2006 6:31:53 PM EDT
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I'm in the market for a new laptop. What brands to you suggest? Where is the best place to buy one? My budget is under $1500. |
-Ehhh, maybe not. The estimated price is $2000, ain't it? Are they even taking orders? And the ones out for review seem to be prototypes anyway (with proto-typical problems). A geek.com story notes that Intel has found 34 CPU logic errors in the new dual-core already, geek.com/news/geeknews/2006Jan/bch20060123034350.htm and MacWorld testing only found it 25% faster than the iMac G5 in most realistic uses. www.macworld.com/2006/01/features/imaclabtest1/index.php ----- There's a lot of problems right now, attempting a new CPU and a new OS at the same time is pretty daring. Certainly a lot of these matters will be fixed soon, but I would at least wait until the CPU is 100% corrected. The software can be updated online. ~ |
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My daughter bought a Dell Inspiron laptop two years ago. Three total meltdowns plus a hard drive crash later it's been retired. She bought the extended warranty and Dell fixed it each time but she was still without a computer for a week after each crash while waiting for Dell's "next business day" response. She has an IBM now and has had no problems. |
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Toshiba is my vote. I have personal experience with at least 12 new ones over the past year and I have only had two fail and both were from abuse. Sony has a nice notebook and the price reflects how much they think of it. I have NEVER seen a Dell notebook that impressed me in any way and I have seen high failure rates out of them. +1 on the extended 2-3 year accidental damage warranty. |
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I have heard from a couple Japanese people that there, Panasonic laptops are considered to be the best, and they're always among the top-rated. They tend to be expensive certainly, might not be one in the OP's price range, but anyway I'm just sayin'.... In the US you don't see a lot of Panasonics. You almost have to buy through a grey importer, and the instruction manuals will all be in Japanese. And I don't even know how the warranties are handled. ~ |
I love my Acer that I got from Newegg. I did pony up for model that is basically a full gaming system and was a little over your budget, but check out this one out for less than $1200 - AMD 64 1.6GHz, 512 MB DDR, 100 GB HD, DVD/RW Multi, ATI 700m graphics w/64MB RAM, and the 15.4" WXGA TFT display is super bright and clear. Plus it comes with XP Pro. Here's one for about a grand. If you want something under $900 and don't want the wide-screen, this one will probably fit your bill. And if you gotta have Centrino... I've gotten extremely good servive from Newegg in the past with no problems at all - even when I decided to return something. Plus they have buyer-written reviews and don't edit or delete them, even if they're negative so you know what's good and what's not. |