Recommend A Laptop

[mbjunior99]

  silverchris said:

How about an Apple Macbook. Starts at $1749 and runs Mac OS and all its virus-free goodies as well as Windows (including Vista). Best of both worlds.

I sell 'em so PM me if interested. I can do a good deal

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Exactly what I was thinking. I think they have the best and clearest screen's out of all the notebooks I have seen too.

[shadyxr]

Iv'e had a Dell D610 for over 12 months now. No problems.

[seventytwo]

I have a dell inspiron 6400 with a 2gig dual core cpu,a gig of 667mhz ram,ATI Mobility Radeon X1400, 100gig hard and a 15.4 inch truelife xga monitor.

never had a problem and does every thing I need, vista compatable too.

[Paranormal]

I picked up an Acer Ferrari 4000 like this one on ebay for $1600, ex demo but came in box like new. Very nice laptops, slot cd drive, no drawer, extended range wireless not to mention the carbon fibre lid looks very cool, but most important preformance wise it's pretty snappy 64bit AMD, there no doubt faster out there but fro $1600 I'm happy.

Acer Ferrari Laptop

[86gav]

I just bought a HP pavilion DV2000. salary sacrifice through work so cust me under a grad. Good little laptop, all the good gear and runs vista too.

Cheers

Gav

[rboksic]

  hiddeous said:

I had a very expensive toshiba laptop decided to poo its self 2 months out of warranty. Required a replacement main board which was a measly $2000 to replace.

I wouldn't recommned toshiba....

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Wife's HP 13 mths old cost 2700 to buy 1000 to repair

[Paranormal]

I worked for Dell for several years then got laid off or else move to India However since then I've worked for several IT companies and guys regarding warranty repairs Dell still tops the list, I mean I've had HP say next business day and arrive 4 days later with wrong parts, had bad experiences with other big names as well.

Also the dells have all documentation online including full service manuals with pictures that an 10 year old could follow to replace a laptop motherboard, all online free.

And no I'm not biased, actually I was on a damn good deal, pissed off I was made redundant but that's just the way it is.

In fact if your Dell is out of warranty DO NOT expect it to be fixed in a hurry, all dell warranty parts are owened buy another company, if your out of warranty then you must have the laptop inspected then quoted and parts shipped from Panang.

So bottom line Dell with onsite next business day warranty, get as much warranty as possible (acutally if you take the complete care you can run over it and they fix it).

After your warranty ends download the manual fix it yourself easy done, you only need one screw driver, and part off ebay.

Edited 08/03/07 10:20 AM by Paranormal

[bcl]

For something different I just bought a new Sony for my daugther.... the Sony just arrived in the country and very good value.

$2k with carry bag.

Small 13.3" screen, with aim for portability.... these days we run multiple monitors, so the actual notebook monitor size isn't a problem.

-80 gig HD ... SATA 5400 rpm (there is a 160gb version that is lighter and more expensive);

-1 gig memory (easily upgraded to 2)

-intel Core 2 chip T5600 from latest suite

- Vista bundled

- NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 7400 notebook graphics card

- DVD±RW/±R DL/RAM Drive

-2.3kg

She loves it.

ref http://www.sonystyle.com.hk/ss/product/vaio/vgn_c25g_b_e.jsp

I found that there are a lot of cheaper machines running older cpu's, that will quickly be outdated (e.g Celeron), and the latest Core 2 chips have good benchmarks.

You also find that you play the options game; start with a base model, many of which don't have a separate graphics card (I.e use shared memory; avoid this!), 256/512mb memory, base CD .... then before you know it you're up to $1500-$1700 buidling it up to a decent spec.

Dell play that game very well (I have 3 Dell notebooks).

There are higher spec models than this Sony; but it suited the requirement (and budget).

If you want a lower spec chip (not the latest Intel) there are plenty of discounts around the place at the moment.

Brian

[mickbundy]

Had a LG for a few years no problems with it except the one I cause after too many drinks haha also brought the daughter a DELL also no dramas