What brands of laptops are good? My girlfriend is needing a laptop and she was wondering what are good ones.

 

Toshiba/Vaio are good from personal experience.....not sure about other brands.

 

Im just going from what he told me. I dont see why they wouldnt though

 

See I have a Toshiba and I don't like it. My battery is shit. Lasts 35 minutes doing nothing on it. This was when I first got it.
I told her about the Wal Mart sale, but I guess shes heard bad things about Compaqs. I have no beef with them. I kinda like them. How are Dell laptops rated? Customer Service?

 

i got my hp pavillion for a grand and i love it

 

Hmmm maybe you were just unlucky with yours, the ones that are out now most likely don't have battery problems like you've experienced.

 

Perhaps. I did get mine on sale for 600 bucks. I think it was normally 1k. She wants to pay as little as possible, like around what I paid perhaps.

 

dell, HP/compaq, sony :down:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,11...4/article.html

edit: and you don't want your sony battery to explode on you

ibm is by far the best. toshiba, fujitsu and acer are pretty good. but fujitsu is usually a little higher end, meant more for corporate use. acer doesn't have a good selection in the US. they make the Ferrari notebooks in Europe

 

the battery reference has nothing to do with laptop selection,

plus i can point out about 15 people in my company who have ibm laptops with the faulty batteries. not to mention if yours is faulty it will be replaced free of charge.

other than that your right, hp/compaq sux balls

 

I had an HP completely shit the bed on me after 2 years, needed a new mobo to fix and there was no point by then. A bit after the first year it had developed so many bugs that I needed to reformat/reinstall just to keep it running.

I replaced it with a Sony that's been doing fine for 2 years. It's thin, light, good screen, quiet, long battery life. Not exactly the speediest at this point but I'm probably going to throw together a desktop of some sort to complement it. I think it's a pre-recall model though.