Need Laptop advice
 

So I'm looking for a new laptop. My Gateway I bought for $2000 3 yrs ago is fried.

So this time I'm spending wayyyyyyy less money.

Anybody have any preferences? I've looke up which brands are most reliable and and each survey is different.

I was thinking about one of these two...

laptops

I don't need a whole of stuff because I don't store alot of things on my computer.

Any advice would be awesome.

Ughh I'm thinking about a Dell now, I don't like some of those reviews.

I hve a Dell inspirion 15 T6600 I think, 2.2ghz, 4gigs of ram, 350gb hd, card reader, blah blah blah

I like it. dell seems to have consistancies in thier products, it seems quite a few have bugs and problems.

i bought a desktop XPS 410 from them a few years back, came with a bad motherboard that kept crashing ring 0. it took several weeks of bitching at dell, eventually they sent out a repair tech who swapped out the motherboard, the PC has been running 100% ever since, with exception of a virus i recently got, but the PC itself has been flawless and running nonstop for about 3 years.

the Laptop is pretty good, no real issues with it other than it came with vista which i swaped out with XP Tiny. The only thing it has ever done to piss me off is sometimes a kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk kkkkkkkkkkkkey will stick and you pretty much have to reboot the goddamn thing. it happens very seldom, maybe every few weeks ill have that issue.

the laptop and PC both have no problem running Photoshop CS3 with 250k+ PSD files with some pretty stong editing going on.

im a big fan of dell. Sometimes you get a bad computer from them,. but when you get one that works it is pretty rock silid in my experience. Ive onwed 2 so far, my parents have each had 2-3 Dell PC's, several Dell Laptops, and one of thier mini Dells, plus a new touchscreen Dell they have on thier wall. That one was buggy as fuck, it took some bullshit but they finally got it swapped out with a new one which has run flawless ever since.

honestly, if you want reliability go buy a fucking apple, and then have fun letting it make all your choices for you. PC's can be buggy, but they are worth it in my view.

JM2C

Acer and Toshiba are supposed to be the most reliable, however, I've had my HP laptop for about five years and never had a problem, so I got another HP this christmas and it's great. I've never personally met anyone who has had a good experience with a Dell, but I'm sure the're out there.

My laptop has 4 GB DDR3 ram,
320 GB of hard drive @ 7200 rpm
an ATI graphics card with over a GB of dedicated ram
and Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 processor (the only thing I'd like to have upgraded)

It blows my old laptop out of the water and Windows 7 is awesome, I'm really enjoying it.

checkout the dell refurbished ones. Super good deals in there. Got my G/f one from there over a year ago. Amazing deal at 465bucks shipped and its still awesome.

http://www.dell.com/us/en/dfh/notebooks/ct.aspx?refid=notebooks&s=dfh&cs=22

Don't buy an Acer please.

Toshiba or Dell would be the way I go.

Gateway is Acer, which have shit quality for parts (number one computer we repair at Best Buy) so stay away for your own sake please.

I love my Dell, never had a problem other than shitty Vista, but I've had 7 on here for about 8 months now and love it. No problems since I installed it.

Toshiba is very reliable. Easy to repair because they don't use proprietary parts like Dell and HP, but they tend to be plenty plain compared to the HP and Dells. I love Toshibas though, but the selection we have at work is not very broad and nothing really strikes my fancy.

But I do have a Quad-Core, 8gb, custom-built Dell so that would be hard to match for Toshiba.

Like I said, Toshiba is a very good brand and I've always had Dells and never had anything that was a major issue right out of the box.

Eee 10". If you're not a gamer these are the best deal going.

My sister has an Asus laptop as well, and she loves it. good price, no problems.

I vote dell, just cause im on my second one in 7-8 years and the old one is still kicking.

I've know a few people with Dells. I'm thinking about the getting the Studio 15.

We use nothing but Dell here at my work, we just received 4 Dell E6400 that are running with 4gb of ram, and win7 32bit for our newsroom sports writers to use. And we have about 15 PC's coming in with 8gb of ram and win7 64bit and have quad processors in them, they are gonna fly.

But I really like toshiba's too, they seem to be indestructible. We have 1 at home we bought a few years ago when we first started a business out and now have gotten one for our oldest since she will be going off to college.

I have a dell laptop that i have had for a year. I love it no problems and about to do the upgarde to windows 7. My brothers wife had a HP and that thing kept breaking. we have HPs at work and lots of issues with them.

we have a few HP's that I am phasing out, they are the T4400 Tablets for Advertising, they are a PITA! I just helped my co-worker change the keyboard out on one!

Im gonna go from expensive to least expensive.

For the most performance for cheap. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-203-_-Product It has a Nvidia GTX260M graphics card so it will play any PC game out there.

For Multipurpose, and I think its the best laptop out on the market, the ASUS UL80VT. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...=asus%20ul80vt 12 hours of battery and hybrid graphics technology.

And for the minimalist and desire of portability. The ASUS EEEpc 1005ha seashell. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-551-_-Product

Those are the best laptops you can get from 300 to 1000 dollars. Anything else is crap.

The link I had was wrong. I fixed it so check it out.

Asus laptops, other that the EEE, have the worst quality rating. They have a lot of problems with software/hardware out of the box. I love Asus, thats all I have in my three built desktops, but they kinda drop the ball on fully-built computers.

I feel the other way around, i had alot of problem with asus motherboards in builds than anything. But the Eee is the only ASUS laptop ive used, and it was solid so i biased my judgment off of that. All i know is people dont like the viewing angles on the screen of the UL80VT. And the top performers a gateway FX laptop which i know is well built, but bulky and 2hr batt life.

Which isn't even good anymore because Acer owns Gateway now...So now you're just fucked lol.

The only good way to go for high-end is Alienware, or buy the Quad HP and hope it doesn't explode lol.

I bought the Dell Studio 15 for $699.

I'm not a PC gamer. I just need email, forums, facebook, and the ability to save Word documents lol.

It comes in 3 weeks.

Good choice.