Hey,

This is my first on this part of the forum.

Ok, here is the situation.

I am looking for a Laptop.

Either Dell or HP.

What I want.

Minimum 15 in Screen, 100 gb hard drive, CD-DVD R/W, Bluetooth, 1gb Memory.

I found HP desktop and checked it out on Cnet and it had a Cnet editiors choice. Read good reviews and such. priced it at $1800 with everything included. 17 inch screen and 3.0 pentium processor all of the above.

My girl had a Dell it worked fine but would get viruses and it was annoying. Eask fix would have been a Norton anti virus. Don't quote me though. Dell set me back at $2k

I want to spend no more than $1500 but might go over if it is a good deal.

IF you have an HP laptop how is it any complaints or regrets?

If you have a Dell what is your experience?

Thanks

 

I suppose you really didn't ask for my help, but i'm a nosey so and so.

so like.. all that stuff for under 1500?

A guy on this board recommended acer to me (in the 2k dollar range) and it really had been a treat.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834115307 just so long as you don't want to play games. (the version with the neato graphics card and 15.4 widescreen is like 600 more)

oh right, family member had a dell. It overheated constantly, psu died, and the hd died in 1 year. Dell finally made good with it though. They replaced the mobo with a new revision (stopped it overheating magically), and the same with the other equipment.

 

I work for HP and have had HP laptops for years. I have also bought 6 laptops over the past two years for friends and family and everyone loves theirs. My brothers is a Pavilion specced about the same as the one you are looking at and he can run every game, ect... with no problems.

 

i have an hp its great cept i lost my battlefield 2 disc somehow in the laptop. I dunno how.

 

I just help my friend to get a laptop for her daughter to go college with. It is an acer and have everything you need and it only cost her $999 after rebate at circuit city.

 

I work for a State government agency and am responsible to research, price and purchase most of the equipment within our agency. Some of my developers used to have HP dual xeon workstations, but unfortunately we did not receive very good customer service from HP, and I personally had a very bad experience with a HP customer service rep. So, in the end, I switched all of our users to Dell machines. Dell provided excellent customer service, and their prodcuts are fairly reliable. As far as viruses goes, that is based on the part of the individual's computing habits, it does not have anything to do with hardware.

As far as laptops go, I personally have a Dell Inspiron 600m, a Dell Inspiron 700m as well as an IBM Thinkpad T41, but I have probably worked on most of the laptops you can buy out there and some you can't buy yet . From my experience, I would stick with Dell or IBM. Dell offers extremely good customer service, and IBM offers the most reliable and durable equipment out there, period. Although, I am not sure how its hardware division is doing after its ownership transfer to Lenovo, luckily, I got my IBM T41 when the hardware was still assembled by IBM.

 

ALIENWARE!!! THE ONLY WAY TO FLY..
I have a gateway and its actually pretty decent

 

Screw the Alienware, get the Atom Chip. (Assuming if it is real and not just an investment trap )

 

This is what I would get if I didn't already have a new company IBM laptop... which I like alot.

Acer Ferrari 4000 >

Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional; AMD Turion™ 64 Mobile Technology ML-37; 1GB (512/512) DDR333 SDRAM; 100GB hard drive; integrated DVD-Super Multi double-layer drive; 5-in-1 card reader; 15.4" WSXGA+ (1680 x 1050) TFT display; ATI® MOBILITY™ RADEON® X700 graphics; 802.11b/g WLAN, gigabit LAN, V.92 modem

http://us.acer.com/acerpanam/page4.d...&crc=923069118

 

i suggest IBM, quality prodcut but kinda pricey or asus

 

A Chinese company owns IBM PC's division now. Don't give them your money.

 

Lenovo (The Chinese Company) have been making IBM machines for Eastern Asia for the past 25+ years. I think if IBM trusts Lenovo with their harware for that long, the quality of the Hardware should not be that bad. Although I am still happy with my T41 that is made in the USA.

As far as giving China your money, my friend, most of the stuff you use everyday is made in China (or at least a parts of it). Your Acura might even have parts that are made in China.

 

my dell 700m has been awesome to me.

I like it better than my toshiba and my toshiba was a tank. It weighed a lot, but took all the beating i could give it.