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| Thread ID: 93431 | 2008-09-16 06:33:00 | What Laptop brands are good buys? | Clod (7853) | Press F1 |
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| 705690 | 2008-09-16 08:34:00 | My friend's Acer laptop came with 512MB RAM (Vista Home Basic), and the left Ctrl key is broken. All brands have or have had a cheap model/s that only come with 512MB and Vista Basic. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 705691 | 2008-09-16 10:24:00 | toshiba or dell, either one does a cheap model that is usually pretty good, look for core2 and at least gig of ram is secondhand ok? trademe.co.nz is your friend |
hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 705692 | 2008-09-16 10:41:00 | How about hps? Are they any good, I have a 3 yr old pavilion 544a at home and its been quite reliable. | Blam (54) | ||
| 705693 | 2008-09-16 11:04:00 | HP laptops have the worst default software setup I have ever encountered,well...as bad as anything I have ever encountered. Regret buying mine, Though the hardware is fine. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 705694 | 2008-09-16 13:22:00 | I use Acer and pray that it won't die. However nothing wrong it yet and the notebook is 3 years old. For my next notebook, I'll be trying to get Asus. |
heni72847 (1166) | ||
| 705695 | 2008-09-16 19:02:00 | Asus, or maybe Toshiba. There are lots of good deals around at the moment and as someone else stated, TradeMe is a great place to look. Personally I wouldn't buy HP or Compaq because of the junk they come loaded with and I'd also stay well clear of Norton (most come preloaded with a "free" trial copy) and make sure you get a Gig of ram minimum. | limepile (96) | ||
| 705696 | 2008-09-16 20:59:00 | I suggest a Lenovo Thinkpad. 2 gigs ram, DVD RW, Wi Fi, 120 gig HDD, 15.4 , screen, extended desktop, long bwttwery life, Vista basic with XP Pro roll back disks, complete with optical USB mouse, Carry bag, USB pen drive, Screen cleaning kit etc for about $1100.00. They are ruggered and reliable. I've sold dozens of them over the last couple of years and never had one returned for servicing. They are not pretty or flash looking things but certainly do the job they are built for. | mxpress (6486) | ||
| 705697 | 2008-09-16 21:06:00 | +1 for Toshiba, Asus are also very good. Don't much like HPs, they are too weak. Tosh and Asus are very solid laptops. Acer - IMO you get what you pay for. Lenovo, I've never been happy with the performance of. Possibly its cause of the amazing bloatware they give you, if you did a fresh install it would probably be fine. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 705698 | 2008-09-16 22:05:00 | I've said it before but I'll say it again :clap I don't know why Acer still have such a bad rep. In saying that I prefer to sell Asus or Toshiba but if there is not one available that fits the customers needs (or they are out of stock) then I will look at Acer. Because of the high failure rate. You can't judge on a handful. You need to look at the return rate on at least 100. Anything over 5% is too high for me. Also there is the warranties to consider. ASUS have a 2 yr warranty. Toshiba - they do 2 types. Theres the 1 yr warranty Laptops, generally the cheaper ones. Then theres the 3 yr warranty ones, usually more expensive, business models. Those go forever generally. As always it comes down to what brand of components have been used in them, most laptops you're not going to have a clue what motherboards are in them............so its pot luck. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 705699 | 2008-09-17 05:48:00 | only buy asus or toshiba! | Lee08 (13930) | ||
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