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BobbyDouglas
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RE: Opinion? laptop brand - 3/8/2006 18:44:21
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HP or Sony?
- Neither. Dell laptops are the best for their price/performance right now. And if they don't have a good deal for the specific laptop you want, they will within the next month. If you would rather stay away from Dell, Toshiba usually has pretty good deals on good laptops. Toshiba's tech support involes dialing a single toll free phone number, providing an ID # on the bottom of the laptop, and waiting for 2 minutes to talk to a rep that knows something.
Without knowing what your use is, here's my suggestion:
1.66GHz Intel Core Duo CPU
Windows XP Media Center
15.4" Widescreen LCD
512MB Shared Single Channel DDR2 SDRAM 533MHZ
40GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive
CD/DVD Burner
WiFi
Crappy Dell 720 Printer
Price: $729 shipped
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If you want to add another stick of ram, or upgrade your hard drive, it is usually best to do it with parts from another store (such as Newegg). Hard drives and ram are pretty easy to install.
If you end up spending another couple hundred on the Dell laptop, I have some coupon codes for additional $$ off ($200 of $1600, $250 off $1700, $350 off $2000).
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RE: Opinion? laptop brand - 3/9/2006 14:17:36
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Same for Toshiba's
Interesting. For the company I work for, I've purchased 7 Toshiba laptops in the past 2 years and they have all been bulletproof. Not one has required any service at all and only 1 support call for a link to a new driver. The tech support spoke understandable English with no heavy dialect and was all of about 5 minutes. 4 minutes of a combination of being on hold and giving serial numbers, etc. to verify purchase.
I'd buy one again in a heartbeat. </$.02>
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BobbyDouglas
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RE: Opinion? laptop brand - 3/10/2006 18:45:40
I would really reconsider the Dell laptop. Despite your poor experience, they are still great laptops.
I never buy Maxtor because I don't feel safe when putting data I need on it. However, if a Maxtor came out at a great price/value, and people continue to say they are great drives, I would buy it. You could have 10 dead maxtors in your lifetime, and believe that they are the worst drive mfc ever, but the truth is that it is all bad luck.
I'm not saying Dell has the best laptops around, but they are going to be at the best price for the performance you get out of the laptop. I would look at a Dell just the same as an HP or Toshiba.
You might want to take a look at Acer's Ferrari laptop. If you do decide to go with Dell, let me know and I'll send over some coupons so you can save up to 40% on the laptop.
I called Toshiba again today and got through within 5 minutes. If that kind of support is something you would rather pay for, then stay far far far far FAR away from Dell.
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RE: Opinion? laptop brand - 3/14/2006 9:58:46
Toshiba satellite. I've had one for six years and continue to abuse it. It keeps going.
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RE: Opinion? laptop brand - 3/16/2006 9:31:52
In a former life consulted to big box retail stores (Walmart, Sam's, Best Buy, CompUSA, Fry's and Staples in the electronics arena) and when this type of discussion came up, the return or failure rate for HP was considerable higher than Sony.
When you ask those people it usually went:
Sony or Fujitsu first and then Toshiba.
Since going out on my own, have had nothing but Toshiba for notebooks for the last 4 years and am quite happy. We used to get Dell every year from that former life and often had to replace mid year so not to impressed with them.
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