Help with choosing a laptop

rdouglass · #1 July 29th, 2005, 01:54 PM

I've been purchasing Toshiba's for my company. Got around 10 or 12 in the past 3 years and have had no problems whatsoever with them. They've been rock-solid.

Altho it's hard to beat Dell's pricing - very agrresive.

El_Phil · #2 July 29th, 2005, 02:49 PM

Without a doubt IBM thinkpads are the best laptops I've ever used. Quiet, loads of battery life and a track pad that's actually useable. Wondeful machines apart from the fact they cost an arm, two legs and a spleen.

The only reason not to go with a Dell is that you will never get any tech/customer support out of them. Ever. They even closed their custom support forum a few weeks ago. If you don't think you'll wany any customer service from them, (and if you think you wont get a dodgy machine out of them) then go for it.

luke_slovakian · #3 July 29th, 2005, 03:24 PM

I read about laptops because im gonna buy one for school and what alot of ppl say is dell is good but overpriced...which it is for the ram and some other things. But toshiba is great but it doesnt come as many acceserios on the site as dell has:-p. But if you want dell i would buy lowest ram and buy a stick for it which will be cheaper than have the ram upgrade from them along w/ some things cant remember