Laptop Suggestions

[Dedicated Mind]

I'm in the market for a new laptop. What is the best brand to buy? Mfblume suggested Lenovo. Any other suggestions? Any place on the internet you would recommend to purchase or should I stick with bestbuy or costco?

[Pastor Keith]

Originally Posted by Dedicated Mind

I'm in the market for a new laptop. What is the best brand to buy? Mfblume suggested Lenovo. Any other suggestions? Any place on the internet you would recommend to purchase or should I stick with bestbuy or costco?

Macbook below 1k now, it is a good deal these days.

[RandyWayne]

No! Not a MAC!!!!

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Dedicated Mind

I'm in the market for a new laptop. What is the best brand to buy? Mfblume suggested Lenovo. Any other suggestions? Any place on the internet you would recommend to purchase or should I stick with bestbuy or costco?

I have an HP, works great.

Brands never impressed me as far as build goes. Brand is mostly important for support. Lenovo is owned by the Chinese BTW.

I got my LP recently for $450 at Fry's. Intel C2D. 120 gig hd. 2 gigs ram. Huge screen. Does what I want.

Decide what you want it to do first.

I would only buy from BB when I see it on sale. On the net you can find good deals but the shipping will cost ya some

[Jermyn Davidson]

Unless you are a "pro" or you are going to be using your laptop extensively, do not buy a Mac.

They can be a bit more complicated and some files that originate on your MAC will not perform properly on other computers, word processing, music, etc.

[mfblume]

Panasonic makes a virtually indestructable laptop. TOUGHBOOK. A guy I know has one and left it by accident on top of his vehicle. It flew off when he drove away and he retrieved it and it still worked perfect!

[commonsense]

I own a Toshiba Satellite (2 yrs old) and I've enjoyed it.

Of course my needs are AFF, email and flickr.

It's gotten real slow lately....I need to delete---delete----delete

[Revelationist]

I'm waiting on a Gateway from Walmart to come in the mail... probably tomorrow. It's got a 320 gig hard drive and 4 meg of memory for $698.00. Gateway makes a good computer. While it's not top of the line, it's such a improvment over what I have that I can afford to buy something else in a couple years with the money I saved. I've got a HP right now, and it's going quick now.. been a good computer though.

[Pastor Keith]

Originally Posted by 1399

Unless you are a "pro" or you are going to be using your laptop extensively, do not buy a Mac.

They can be a bit more complicated and some files that originate on your MAC will not perform properly on other computers, word processing, music, etc.

Let see, I have had an 2 IBM Thinkpad, 2 Sony Vaio, 1 Compaq, 2 Dell laptops, now I have 2 Macs. I think my opinion matters, Apple is much better and there OS is much more stable than any current Microsoft product.

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by keith4him

Let see, I have had an 2 IBM Thinkpad, 2 Sony Vaio, 1 Compaq, 2 Dell laptops, now I have 2 Macs. I think my opinion matters, Apple is much better and there OS is much more stable than any current Microsoft product.

Accept you'll never be able to walk into you average store and actually buy software for it. And the software available for downloading is literally 100 times greater on the PC side (or more).

And while you have owned more laptops then me, I also have owned a couple including a CURRENT MacBook -and built my last 5 desktop PC's. I've started with DOS and moved to Windows 3.1 and 3.11 (learning ALL about the autoexec.bat and config.sys as well as the original win.ini and boot.ini files), then went to Windows 95, 98, 98SE, XP Pro (skipped over Windows ME), and Vista. Oh yes, also have used Linux.
ALL the current OS's are stable, but whenever I use OS X I get the feeling that I am chained to whatever Steve Jobs thinks is best for me. And the price for software in a typical Apple store is horrible!