Favorite Laptop Brand?

Shotgun style purchasing! I love it!

 

lmao, i like your process of natural elimination

 

Damn, I'm genuinely impressed with this style of buying. I might try it out.

 

Dude, you shoulda bought a Dell!

 

Wow... what did they do?

 

They just didn't want to deal with you anymore.... Transcripts of your phone calls will be showing up on www.notalwaysright.com by next Tuesday.

 

But he bought one of those too.....lol!

 

wow sorry about the lenovo experience. good computers. just shitty customer service

 

Why didn't you just buy one from Staples, Office Depot, Best Buy, Circuit City, etc? Then you'd have it already. I think BB sells Dells now. Not sure. Haven't actually been in one in over a year.

 

I have 3 Dell laptops, work.. play.. kids all work great no problems. don't forget if you order a new Dell you can still get XP in select models. Don't forget about HP they have one mean laptop now, but Vista only.

 

Hey Isocoee,
I was just waiting to put in my 2 cents, but you are probably better off. I work on computers for a living (approx. 20 years now) and the company I support is buying IBM ThinkPad T61 laptops. Just yesterday I replaced a Hitachi hard drive in one that was 3 weeks old. True, still under warranty, but they had to reload everything.

Just an FYI......

 

yeah, I have 2. Mine and my wife's. Tea spilled on her's twice when the stupid cats ran passed and knocked the cup over. First time I took it partially apart, dried it, and it worked. Second time no such luck so it sat on a shelf for a few months. Then my new coworker told me to break it down again and spray flux cleaner over everything and let that dry. Sure enough, it powered back up after I put it all back together! So I salvaged a 3-4 yr old laptop that I got for free from my last company because it was "slow", out of warranty, and needed a new hard drive. Turns out it was slow as shit because they had a 65W power supply and it needed a 90W. So bought a new PS and it jumped from 600MHz to 2.5GHz.

Had the same thing happen to a couple other spill Dells that came into the office. Clean with some flux cleaner, back together, and they go back out the door fully functional.

 

Ghost is a wonderful tool!

On the same note, I had 3 brand new Dell laptops come in needing new memory fresh out of the box in the year I was at my last company. No problems thus far with my new company, but shit happens I suppose. One of the reasons we stock Seagate hard drives with 5yr warranties, and sell Dell Small Business line computers with a 3yr warranty.

 

Yep! We use Symantec Ghost, but that only reloads the basic XP image with Office. All of the other, user specific programs have to reloaded with PC Wizard and that could take hours!