Need Laptop recommendation from CP

WilliamM2

At work we now buy Asus, Toshiba, and Lenovo laptopa. All have been very reliable.

Over the years we have purchased HP, Compaq and Dell as well, they all seem about the same for reliability, not horrible, but not as good as the ones mentioned above.

I do disagree about HP/Compaq being more proprietary and harder to upgrade though. All laptops are proprietary, drive and memory upgrades are about all you can do with any of them.

DeusExa

http://www.amazon.com/UL30A-A2-Light-13-3-Inch-Silver-Laptop/dp/B002P3KMNU/ref=dp_ob_title_ce

disneyjoe7

Dell, never get a HP laptop. I tell what you could give me a HP laptop, I won't put my time into then it dies... HP Sucks IMHO.

bigaudiofanatic

Never go with Dell man if anything go with the Toshiba or even a HP over a dell. But yes Kieko I am with you apple FTW.

daboyz

I've had two Asus laptops in the last three weeks. Brand new and both were CRAPOLA.

bigaudiofanatic

Asus's are nice they own acer and they own emachines. I would not mind them.

John30_30

bigaudiofanatic wrote: »

Never go with Dell man if anything go with the Toshiba or even a HP over a dell. But yes Kieko I am with you apple FTW.

I'm running hackintosh on an $400 Acer AMD laptop just for grins and to see what the hoopla about its Fisher-Price GUI is (posting from it). Boing-boing go the app icons. :cool:
I'm not impressed.

For real work, I use a dell. Their toughbooks come back from Iraq with sand everywhere in them, all scarred up, still cranking. Try that with an Apple.

bigaudiofanatic wrote: »

Asus's are nice they own acer and they own emachines. I would not mind them.

No, Asus do not own acer, you
A few years ago, Acer bought Gateway who had earlier bought/merged with eMachines. Truth is there's only about 5 laptop manufacturers in Taiwan who the OEM's go back and forth contracting the builds.
Here's the list:
* Quanta sells to (among others) HP/Compaq, Dell, Toshiba, Sony, Fujitsu, Acer, NEC, Gateway and Lenovo/IBM - note that Quanta is currently (as of August, 2007) the largest manufacturer of notebook computers in the world.
* Compal sells to Toshiba, HP/Compaq, Acer, and Dell.
* Wistron (former manufacturing & design division of Acer) sells to HP/Compaq, Dell, IBM, NEC, Acer, and Lenovo/IBM.
* Flextronics (former Arima Computer Corporation notebook division) sells to HP/Compaq, NEC, and Dell.
* ECS sells to IBM, Fujitsu, and Dell.
* Asus sells to Apple (iBook), Sony, and Samsung.
* Inventec sells to HP/Compaq, Toshiba, and BenQ.
* Uniwill sells to Lenovo/IBM and Fujitsu.



It goes back and forth among the PC makers- for a long time Toshiba were really reliable and a good value, Sony have always been very good, IBM now Lenovo are always consistently the best quality.

It pretty much gets down to Service after the sale because there's going to be drama with every manufacturer. Some folks just have good luck with certain brands, and bad luck with others, no rhyme or reason.

bigaudiofanatic

Thanks for clearing that up John.