What are some of the best laptop brands?

[Samuraid]

Insanity! Dell laptops are bad! :thdown:

Fair enough. I'm just going on personal experience, having worked with about 25 or 30 Dell laptops and not experiencing many problems during normal lifetime.

 

[ElderKingpin]

were these business or consumer Dell?

 

[Dave312]

My current laptop is a Toshiba Satellite and I have never had any problems with it. I know a few people with a HP and they have continually had problems.

 

[codemonkey]

DELL has quality and good support. I also recommend ASUS. Whatever you do don't buy an Acer laptop, I have had several bad experiences with them in the past. :banghead:

 

[Samuraid]

were these business or consumer Dell?

A mix of both, predominantly business.

DELL has quality and good support. I also recommend ASUS. Whatever you do don't buy an Acer laptop, I have had several bad experiences with them in the past. :banghead:

Agreed. Acer is not very reliable.

 

[Duwenbasden]

I just go for whichever one has a laptop model that I liked. Be it Dell, Asus, Acer, Apple, HP...

Yes, still wanting a small one with long lasting, removable battery.

 

[KillerChi]

Sorry I didn't make it clear, I was looking for the most reliable brands. As in, I wanted to know the companies with the most reliability as a whole. I was looking for a more middle-of-the-line laptop, some light gaming, like SC2, but, that'd be it. In addition, I was simply curious what you guys liked the best.

 

[Icyculyr]

Apple is the most reliable brand IMO. Macs don't really have many hardware issues (I say that from experience), on the occasion they do, Apple have great customer support. With a MBP, I'd say the 15" Core i5 @ 2.4GHz is middle of the line.

 

[Slapshot136]

$1800 is middle of the line? maybe you should say your price range instead of "middle"

I would recommend this dell
and use: CLR-MSAFL-35%-PC for 35% off
total comes down to $714 + S&H

CPU: Intel Core i5 430M, 2.53 GHz
graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670 1 GB
mem: 4 GB DDR3 1333 MHz
screen: LED backlit (1600 x 900)
HDD: 500 GB SATA 7200 RPM

it won't play SC2 @ max settings, but it will on med-high and is fairly cheap

 

[Icyculyr]

$1800 is middle of the line? maybe you should say your price range instead of "middle"

I said "with a MBP" such and such is middle of the line, and the low end 15" MBP is, middle of the line.

I would recommend this dell
and use: CLR-MSAFL-35%-PC for 35% off
total comes down to $714 + S&H

CPU: Intel Core i5 430M, 2.53 GHz
graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670 1 GB
mem: 4 GB DDR3 1333 MHz
screen: LED backlit (1600 x 900)
HDD: 500 GB SATA 7200 RPM

it won't play SC2 @ max settings, but it will on med-high and is fairly cheap

That's a pretty good deal if you can get it for 35% off, it does have poor battery life though.

 

[ElderKingpin]

its an LED screen and you probably wont be trying to purposely drain your batteries.

 

[Icyculyr]

its an LED screen and you probably wont be trying to purposely drain your batteries.

No, but that'll very likely be 5 hours of light usage at 50% brightness, just saying that appears to be the only con off those specs. Aren't most laptops screens today LED? Or is that something else I'm thinking of?

 

[Slapshot136]

Aren't most laptops screens today LED? Or is that something else I'm thinking of?

no, most of them aren't, I think only the tiny netbooks have them more often then laptops

either way if the OP wanted long batter life, they should have said so, since laptops that play games generally won't have long battery lives

 

[tooltiperror]

Chances are you'll be playing plugged in, anyway.

 

[Icyculyr]

no, most of them aren't, I think only the tiny netbooks have them more often then laptops

Oh ok

either way if the OP wanted long batter life, they should have said so, since laptops that play games generally won't have long battery lives

I don't know if he does or not, I was just pointing out, that of all of it's specs that was the only weak link IMO, which isn't a problem if he doesn't intend to use it unplugged.

 

[Coo Paul]

Apple is the most reliable brand IMO. Macs don't really have many hardware issues (I say that from experience), on the occasion they do, Apple have great customer support. With a MBP, I'd say the 15" Core i5 @ 2.4GHz is middle of the line.

You are truly a fan of Apple, can you suggest some other laptop brands?

Between Macbook Air and Pro, what is better?

 

[Slapshot136]

Between Macbook Air and Pro, what is better?

your comparing apples to oranges - each has their own benefits, but from a performance point of view, the pro is much better