Laptop brand advice

BANzai Rastafarai · Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 2:35 pm Post subject:

SALRI COMPUTERS..

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foss · Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 2:38 pm Post subject:

acesinghit · Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 2:40 pm Post subject:

family has 4 laptops....2 Acer Aspire's, 1 Lenovo 3000 and a Toshiba Satellite.

first Acer purchased in September 2006 then the other Acer purchased in September 2007. The Lenovo was purchased in August 2007 and the Toshiba in March 2009.

All are still in original condition and are used for hours everyday. They are always on the net and the Acer's being the oldest nothing ever changed except the RAM. The first Aspire came with 512MB and we upgraded it to 2GB and it runs XP very fast. Likewise we upgraded the 2nd Acer with 4GB of RAM and it runs Vista the way it should have been in the first place. The Lenovo was similarly upgraded like the 2nd Acer as well as the Toshiba.

The quality of the casing, knobs/buttons and keys remains new up to this day and the screens are still trouble free. No lines or dots. The Acer's have superior wifi reception over the Lenovo and Toshiba by far. The screen quality is the best in the Toshiba though and all have poor battery life IMHO as they don't last long but its not like we seriously need to change the batteries as wherever we go there are power sockets so we just keep it plugged. All optical drives work as intended. Only the Toshiba lacks a microphone but the others still pickup voice clearly and only the 2nd Acer has a camera which has excellent quality.

All hard drives run great and please note the Lenovo we have is not the IBM Thinkpad derived laptop its the true Chinese Lenovo 3000 nothing to do with IBM or Thinkpad series laptops and no complaints!!!

I have friends with newer Dells and HP's that failed in numerous ways thus far as opposed to the 'oldish' ones we have. Our previous laptop was a Compaq Presario 1200 which lasted 4 years then gave up and Prior to that we had a Digital DEC PC 325SL with Windows 3.1, 25MHz Intel 386 and 25MB HD and that lasted for 6 years.

I suppose its how you treat your laptop but seeing Digital and Compaq are now absorbed into HP, it seems their specialty is printers now and not laptops like before.

For now, Acer, Lenovo and Toshiba FTW.

BANzai Rastafarai · Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 2:46 pm Post subject:

foss · Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 2:47 pm Post subject:

^^^

ok ah lie.. ah doh know him and he parents doh live by me Embarassed

star323 · Street 2NR Joined: 11 Jan 2009 Tech posts: 49 My 2NRide:

thanks for all the info... well it lookin like dell ahead because of their warranty... i hearing real good things bout acer though... but is dell i feelin safe with.. once i getting it on a 3yr warranty!!

TriniVdub · Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 3:31 pm Post subject:

u laptop noobs and ur fancy smancy brand names, when would u guys realize that they are all over priced and garbage.

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pioneer · Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 5:00 pm Post subject:

yupp buy a dell if you wanna live the next few months of your sorry life in misery

copper_shot · Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:55 am Post subject:

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`psycho · Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 9:07 am Post subject:

^^

IMHO laptops doh really last more than 2yrs these days, i treat all my laptops really good, 1st one (Acer aspire) the power board started giving trouble, 2nd one (toshiba satellite) the LCD power inverter keeps melting down. Guess i'll se how de Dell holds up.

jhonnieblue · Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 10:54 am Post subject:

hmm well my last laptop las 5 yrs and still pusing ..though running a lil slow these days
now studying to get an asus netbook based on some good reviews im hearing

acesinghit · Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 11:44 am Post subject:

^^^tell us about that laptop of yours. Give us a review it will be helpful to all if you would Smile

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cinco · Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 1:07 pm Post subject:

jhonnieblue · Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 1:17 pm Post subject:

was a hp
yeah paid a good raise for it
never had trouble with it,jus need a lil ram Smile

300US for a netbook to throw way after a yr is sad....more ways for them to make money

triniboi49 · Street 2NR Joined: 02 Nov 2006 Tech posts: 31 My 2NRide:

Local Support:
Memory Bank - Lenovo
HP - Digidata Illuminat
Acer - some outfit in woodbrook.
Dell -Any palour that does sell b14 parts.

The lenovos are really good - The T Series are very good laptops.

TriniVdub · Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 11:54 pm Post subject:

fellas if u really want a top notch laptop forget all those brand name garbage....check this website

www.xoticpc.com thats where i bought mine, absolutely love it, over a year now and it still works as if it was just booted for the first time

dreadman · Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 1:04 am Post subject:

i have a hp for over 1 yr now running intel core 2 duo, 4 gb ram 250gig hd and vista was installed. removed vista an installed windows 7. i have absolutely no problems wit my laptop. always does virus scans, regular cleanup and delete whatever i dont need. once u take care of ur system it will work perfectly for u. i have a dell desktop for almost 6 yrs and the only thing dat was changed is the dvd burner which dell had replaced...an i had installed 2 gig of ram jus 2 yrs ago and system runs perfectly also. when i am home the laptop runs all d time and about 50% of d time when i'm at work it is on.
if u r looking for something reliable and u is a first time owner of a laptop go wit d dell....but if u have alot of experiences with laptops and operating systems u can buy otherwise jus do enough research on the internet and consult computer professionals

christopherwilliams2 · Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 3:32 am Post subject:

acesinghit · Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 10:55 pm Post subject:

i think MBM brings Toshibas, not sure though