help me find out

[tookey]

I don't really know much about purchasing brand name laptops. The last computer I bought, I built. What company has the best laptops I can get, with the least bloatware? What brands do you like? Who has good support?

Edited August 16, 2008 by tookey

[ZeroDamage]

This may surprise you but I recommend a Macbook Pro, use Bootcamp if you want Vista or XP on it. You will get top notch support from Apple on the machine with the best specs including top of the line video card, etc. That is my recommendation anyway.

[stutters]

This may surprise you but I recommend a Macbook Pro, use Bootcamp if you want Vista or XP on it. You will get top notch support from Apple on the machine with the best specs including top of the line video card, etc. That is my recommendation anyway.

this quote needs to be preserved, and the thread closed. other opinions will come along, but they'll be wrong.

 

- sj

 

transcribed by my macbook pro. dictated but not read.

[ZesteR]

Do you have a budget??

 

Best bang for your buck, I believe, is getting a dell, hp, asus.

 

Each brand I have some pet peeves, but could have changed by now.

 

Dell, ya gotta watch, they like to put in a 56K modem and a 10/100 rj45 network card... (why??)

 

I do like apple products, never used any laptops of their's, but the Mac OS is a nice change of pace.

 

I know my college gives a lil discount for apple products too.

[Ice_Berge_00]

I have been very happy with my Dell e1505 that I bought a year and 1/2 ago. I have not had to work with their customer service so no opinion there, but the laptop has been very good for me. I have Vista Home Premium on it.

 

I would have just changed 1 thing, get the actual sound card instead of the integrated one

[NOFX]

I find out what i want my laptop for.. travel, not sitting at my desk. So I want the lightest possible. I don't care about horsepower, but no modern day laptop is going to crawl. I buy them off ebay and put my own OS's on them..

[Cujo]

you'll be happy with anything asus. probably the most bang for your buck laptops. dell and hp don't even come close when you compare features set of similarly priced laptops.

[ilovetomatoes]

I <3 my asus laptop.

[Preacher]

I just bought this one I'll let ya know how it performs. The problem with most name brand laptops is all the "bloatware " installed on them

[ZesteR]

if i can get a brand name laptop that has bloatware on it, for a cheaper price, i can take the bloatware off myself.

[Preacher]

I went with that Acer because of the screen, RAM and hard drive space. The CPU was also a little faster than most in the price range.

[Playaa]

If it ain't gonna be a MacBook Pro (which it should be) then it had better be an Asus.

 

But seriously...get a MacBook Pro. I have had a few laptops in my day (HP, Compaq, Sony, Apple) and none of them felt as usable and "fresh" after a year as my MacBook Pro does.

[Preacher]

I also chose the Acer because it has nothing to do with Apple and it's evil scheme to compromise the integrity of fly fishing in the lower half of Alska. The bastards!!!