What is the best brand for the laptop?

[KlobzMokz]

[Hansoon]

Re: What is the best brand for the laptop?

The one coming without Windows-8..........

Hans

[JR2ALTA]

For personal or service?

[copiman]

Re: What is the best brand for the laptop?

I use a Lenovo B570 for work as well as personal. Its an IBM. Great product.

[doug94550]

Re: What is the best brand for the laptop?

I use the Asus Eee PC 1015. It is a small 10.1" display with a 160 gig hard drive.
It does everything I need for it to do in the field and fits nicely in my toolkit.
It is not a high performance PC so don't buy it with the intention of doing heavy duty gaming.
And the pricing is reasonable.

[bilyahn]

Re: What is the best brand for the laptop?

Whatever you do, stay away from the middle series of HPs. Have had nothing but trouble with these for years. Examples of problems, keyboard failure (Pavillion series), video and motherboard issues leading to dead/black machines (Pavillion series) and a recently purchased HP the hard drive failed after about 7 months of pedestrian use. We currently have a HP in the shop that is doing okay but I only use it for basic office stuff, Word, email and things like that. I personally like Dell but have some friends who have less than stellar results with them also.

Bil

[rthonpm]

Re: What is the best brand for the laptop?

Dell can be a good choice, but stay away from the consumer grade ones and go for the business line Latitude machines: better construction, more options for customisation (including Windows 7 Pro as the OS), and better support as well. Lenovo is also a good choice for the same reason, though you may pay a little more for the machine you actually get a good product.

I have to agree when it comes to HP: I do some third party work for some of the retail places around me, and HP warranty calls seem to come around a lot. Since HP is a pain to deal with, I just decline those.

Overall, it really depends on what you're looking to do with the machine.

[b3p0]

Re: What is the best brand for the laptop?

We've been doing IT consulting for 10 years, and in all the laptops we've had come back for repair that we've sold, HP and Sony have had the highest failure rate. Dell's have been kinda iffy, I had a Dell XPS for my desk and it died after 2 years.

ThinkPad's have been rock solid. We've sold them before they were Lenovo, and since they were Lenovo. Every now and then i'll see something like a bad hard drive, but overall they have been great.

I use a ThinkPad t40 for field use that is probably about 8-9 years old. carry it every day, it's still running like a champ.

[BrownyStripe]

[sdrawkcab]

Re: What is the best brand for the laptop?

only one

TOSHIBA

enough said

[WinklingSky]

Re: What is the best brand for the laptop?

I think Apple is the best brand and the reason is they manufacture very nice and advance laptops which has a good name in the market.

[rthonpm]

Re: What is the best brand for the laptop?

The problem with Apple is that they make a lot of changes to their hardware, and if you're using the machine for service use often a lot of the utilities you need aren't available for the Macs so you'll still end up using Windows either as a dual boot or a virtual machine. Also, I'm a little old fashioned and I like having the option of a swappable battery, which Apple has all but done away with, as well as Ethernet (if for no other reason than to use for crossover purposes), plus a disc drive is a little more handy than most people still realise. Maybe I'm just cheap and don't feel like paying an Apple Tax, especially when if you tear the thing down you'll find the same components that are in any PC so why pay the extra money for a bunch of proprietary connectors, non-upgradable hard drives and RAM, and a one button touchpad (seriously, are their no contextual menu users in Mac Land? I shouldn't need to hit two keys or twirl my fingers like a divebombing bird on the trackpad to get a freaking menu)???

[willim]

Re: What is the best brand for the laptop?

I would recommend apple (Mac book)
It lasts a long time
Its bit expensive, but worthwhile

[HarrietAidan]

Re: What is the best brand for the laptop?

I recommend Acer for the best brand laptop.

[qbert69]

Re: What is the best brand for the laptop?

Currently I have a Lenovo Laptop with Windows 7 x64 bit for work.

Get a laptop with either Windows XP Pro or Windows 7 Pro. You won't be disappointed!

Skip Vista and 8.

Lenovo and Dell are good for support on hardware drivers.

Acer would be an option for a good low end laptop.

I have one of the first Acer Aspire One netbooks that I maxxed out the RAM on, installed a Solid State Drive (SSD) and installed vanilla XP Pro with all of the appropriate hardware drivers....that little sucker flies like a mini bat out of hell!!!...LOL!

So whatever you get, optimize it for how you use it...you won't be disappointed!

PS--If you just "gotta" have a Mac, go here!:

http://www.macofalltrades.com/Apple-Laptops-s/5.htm

I have ordered several PowerPC based Macs from them and they have a good reputation and competitive prices for used machines! They also sell the Intel based Macs!