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Any suggestions for a good laptop brand/model?
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Giant



Joined: 14 May 2003
Location: South Korea

PostPosted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 4:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Talking from experiance from more that 10 years in the IT field... I would personally only go for the following brands.

1st
Compaq

2nd
Toshiba

3rd
Dell

While RAM bus speeds and Hard drive speeds are important, most people generally overlook warranty. Thats why I choose these.

Bottom line is get the most power you can afford. Of course any new laptop you buy these days will have DDR memory, but try and go for at least 1GB of PC3200 memory. The rest is not to much consequential, lets face it... you do not buy a laptop if you are serious into games now do you?
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Wrench



Joined: 07 Apr 2005

PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 1:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

1. IBM Laptops

2. Panasonic Laptops

3. Asus Laptops

4. Dell

I have a 15.4 WSXGA+ (Widescreen) Geforce 6600go, 60 gig SATA, Dual Layer burner, 1.86 ghz Centrino, 1gig of pc 533 DDR2, Wireless A/B/G. (I get about 3 1/2 hours of battery life.) 3 Year Warranty. I paid just under 1.9 million won (including shiping). Oh its an ASUS and if you worked in the industry you would know that Asus is one of the best when it comes to quality.
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ulsanchris



Joined: 19 Jun 2003
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 3:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had a compaq laptop. when it worked it was fine, but the problem was it wouldn't stop working every couple of months. The first problem i had was with the moniter. had to send it back to have it repaired. then it wouldn't boot. had to send it back to have it fix and they replaced the mother board. had four more problems with it and asked for my money back which they thankfully did. I will never ever ever buy a compaq again.
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Giant



Joined: 14 May 2003
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 4:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Asus are good but it also depeneds where you are in the world if you want support from them. As for PC motherboards I only buy ASUS for my office.
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Wrench



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 7:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Asus has world wide warranty
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Giant



Joined: 14 May 2003
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 12:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes I know. But some countries are better than others.
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I_Am_Wrong



Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: whatever

PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 5:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fujitsu's look Killa!

...but I recommend you just make a friend at Samsung and get a Sens at 1/2 price. Very Happy
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Derrek



Joined: 15 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 6:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The SONY laptops are fabulous, and the screens smoke everything out there, but are priced WAY too high.

They last a long time, though. My gf's got one going on her 4th year.
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Giant



Joined: 14 May 2003
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 2:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, Sony are renowned for their great screens.
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Derrek



Joined: 15 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 12:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I looked online, and I guess some of the SONY products weren't too far out of line.
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jazblanc77



Joined: 22 Feb 2004

PostPosted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pangit wrote:
I don't know what your price range is.

You want a desktop replacement? http://alienware.com


Took the words right out of my keyboard... there is only one way to describe alienware computers... SEXY!
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Derrek



Joined: 15 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like the alienware line, too... however... they used to provide the best of the best of the best -- no holds barred. These days, they seem to be a bit more mainstream. Still nice, though.
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mindmetoo



Joined: 02 Feb 2004

PostPosted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 4:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Derrek wrote:
I like the alienware line, too... however... they used to provide the best of the best of the best -- no holds barred. These days, they seem to be a bit more mainstream. Still nice, though.


I've heard a lot of complaints by people about Alienware these days. They've slid in terms of quality.
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mindmetoo



Joined: 02 Feb 2004

PostPosted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 4:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Giant wrote:
Talking from experiance from more that 10 years in the IT field... I would personally only go for the following brands.

1st
Compaq


Why Compaq? The Compaq my work gave me back in my Seattle days was a sweet machine. However, the two consumer Compaqs I've had have fallen apart after a year of use.
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Derrek



Joined: 15 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 10:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I would never buy a Compaq laptop... pure trash.

Desktop wouldn't be bad.
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