Help chosing a new laptop

[hindle8907]

keep away from toshiba laptops mate .
I work in IT and the amout of toshiba laptops that become faulty is rediculous.

Ebuyer have some good deals on laptops.

[hindle8907]

and as for microsoft office just use Openoffice http://www.openoffice.org/
Its free and its just the same as microsoft office and you can open and save documents as microsoft office files.

Miles,

If you insist on going for a large wide screen in this price range then the first thing that I suggest you do before putting any money down is to pick it up from the sides and give it a bit of a twist. If it creaks and groans or doesn't feel solid, put it down and walk away. It'd only give you problems later.

Also have a think about springing for a better operating system.

Cheers

[ophic]

Originally Posted by hindle8907

keep away from toshiba laptops mate .
I work in IT and the amout of toshiba laptops that become faulty is rediculous.

Ebuyer have some good deals on laptops.

Really? All of our Toshiba laptops are still going strong. It's our Dells that all seemed to develop the same fault just out of the warranty period

Originally Posted by Miles

Thanks.

Just found this one

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Produc...CER+LAPTOP.htm

£30 less with a 500gb hard disk.

I've got a copy of office I think, if not, as an NHS employee, I cna get a copy for £18.

Bought this one yesterday, pleased so far!

Originally Posted by ophic

It's our Dells that all seemed to develop the same fault just out of the warranty period

What's that then? Getting too hot and shutting down frequently?

Originally Posted by hindle8907

keep away from toshiba laptops mate .
I work in IT and the amout of toshiba laptops that become faulty is rediculous.

Ebuyer have some good deals on laptops.

Originally Posted by ophic

Really? All of our Toshiba laptops are still going strong. It's our Dells that all seemed to develop the same fault just out of the warranty period

I used to work for a Acer warranty supplier (who eventually dumped Acer and signed a deal with IBM!) and I could say the same about Acer. They are all as bad as each other like the majority of car manufacturers, various models suffer various faults. Personally I rate HP, IBM and Fujitsu Siemens for build quality, but don't know what IBM are like now that they are Lenovo as I've moved companies who primarily supply HP kit rather than primarily IBM as it was in my old company. I think Dell's are really flimsy.

Acer do have some poor practices though, such as refusing to write a new BIOS to support switching on Intel VT and allow you to run 64bit virtual machines on the laptop, but they were still happy to advertise "Core 2 Duo" on the box, but you couldn't use the processor features. To me that's like advertising and selling a car with front fog lights, but not putting a switch on the dashboard.

[hindle8907]

Originally Posted by ophic

Really? All of our Toshiba laptops are still going strong. It's our Dells that all seemed to develop the same fault just out of the warranty period

the amout of screens i have replaced on the toshibas is mad atleast 10+

and my sisters packed mobo packed in the other week only 3 months old . lol .

Originally Posted by hindle8907

the amout of screens i have replaced on the toshibas is mad atleast 10+

and my sisters packed mobo packed in the other week only 3 months old . lol .

dells

My wife's Sony Ericsson was back in for repair four times in the first six months, that's supposed to be a quality phone. Several ROM flashes, new battery and new PCB and it seems to be working OK now.

more ram is'nt alway's the best thing to go for remember it's the speed of the ram that count's.