Your laptop, Tell me about it

[no1likesme]

I worked as a pc tech at a large electronics store and I have spent time with pretty much every product line from most common manufacturers, and from my experience with them I have a few opinions.

Avoid HP and Toshiba at all costs their build quality is awful, and they seem to have a much higher failure rate than other brands.

there are really only two brands that I would recommend (unless you get a really good deal on another one)

ACER: equal or better build quality than most competitors at a much lower price (this is what i have)

Lenovo: Absolutely outstanding build quality, the keyboards on these are years ahead of any other manufacturer (including apple) but they tend to be a little pricey (not as bad as apple however).

For your price range I would definatly get a lenovo, you will not regret it.

 

[jds]

Finally got my dell E5400. It's pretty vanilla, but so far, so good.

 

[GregR]

I run a 13'' macbook (black) with XP partitioned for virtual box in case I ever run into a compatibility issues (never happened yet, not sure the last time I booted into windows). the new MS office suite for mac is great. entourage(outlook), word, power point, excel. . . should be compatible across the board for the PC IT guy.

but they are expensive. . . reliable and quality built, but expensive. the HP's are pretty slick. if I were to get a PC that would probably be the route I would take.