What Is The Best Brand For Laptops And Why?
Saturday, February 27th, 2010 at
11:10 am
I need to buy a laptop because it is a lot more efficient for college. My price range is anywhere from 950 to 1250. I need something with Removable Device ports, ethernet ports, compact and floppy drives, and the overall brand has to be easy to carry and highly portable.
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Hmm…I don’t think you can get laptops with floppy drives anymore. You have to buy that seperate from the laptop. But if its gonna be for school then let me suggest a Flash Drive instead. That’s what I use for all my school work. Its easy to take to class, to the library and such…just that some flash drives are too small and haha you might misplace. I used to have an HP 14 inch laptop and it worked great. Now, I have a Gateway M-6848 15 inch and it weighs the same as my old HP laptop. My new Gateway also works bery good…the only thing is that you have to get used to the Vista software.
My laptop has 4 GB Memory and has a 250 GB hard drive.
5 in 1 memory card reader, Web Camera, wireless lan, 3 USB ports,…and more. I got mine for $649.99 at Office Depot. Its not on sale anymore though it is now $749.99 although it is a great buy. But again you’ll have to get used to Vista.
Brand doesn’t matter, the reason is because most internal parts are identical. Now, there are laptops that differentiate in performance because people compare the products with different chips, memory types, albeit the same specs. For example, an Intel Centrino Dual Core 1.6GHz will outperform an Intel Celeron 1.6GHz. Of course, the Celeron are cheaper than Centrino Dual Core.
Toshiba and Dell offer great laptops and affordable. Alienware are expensive, but compensate with its ridiculous performance. Vaio laptops have what Toshiba and Dell offer + a slick look and lightweight. As far as floppy drives, most laptops now days do not have that because, well they are archaic. You will have to buy it separately. However, I’d advice you to spend $5 dollars and get yourself a flashdrive since 99% of computers have a USB port.
Conclusion: It all comes down to the architecture of a laptops’ components, not brand. Good luck!
I know there are lots of comments in here already, but I couldn’t believe how many “get a Mac!” there are. Macs are not the perfect machines the commericals will have you believe. They have much, MUCH less software (and hardware) available than Windows machines. They can still crash just like Windows machines. I used to work at a computer service center. We saw a fair number of Macs. They can and do break. Plus they’re SO expensive, it’s ridiculous. Computer retailers typically make the most profit selling Apples.
That being said, it really depends on your price point. The “best” laptops would be something like an alienware or voodoopc. However, most of those are extremely expensive, designed with gaming in mind, and well out of your price range.
For retail brands, I tend to like HP, Dell, and Sony. Acer and Compaq are budget brands which tend to make them suck. Toshiba is ok, but I question a lot of their designs. Oh, and if you want a floppy drive in this day and age, you’re going to have to get an external USB floppy drive as NO laptop will come with one built in nowadays. Don’t fret, it’s like $20 or so.
I have had very good luck with Dell portables. Most have at least 2 USB (removable device) ports, an ethernet port (and a built in wireless network access controller), and CD/DVD reader and writer. Floppy drives are no longer in demand, so most manufacturers are omitting them, but many offer an external floppy drive as an option. I wouldn’t bother. USB jump drives are cheap, fast and have a much higher capacity.
In your price range, you should be able to get a laptop with 2 GB of memory, 160 GB disk drive and a 1.8 Ghz dual core processor.
I an a comp tia manag. prog. during this class i have learned the apple (mac) has the best laptop that you can buy but dont get me wrong dell has a great line of laptops to choose from..
so top 3 picks
Mac– most memory
Dell– little over priced but good quality
HP– great laptops may not last as long but you will get your money for it.
I would buy a Dell. As a technician I have found that they are easy to repair and upgrade. If you are not very computer savvy please spend the money and buy the extended warranty. Just one call will pay for itself. If you do not buy the warranty it can be expensive to fix any laptop.
Well if your looking for a mac (better for media work), then i’d suggest a apple note book.
However. the best Laptop/Desktop’s (PC/Windows) Is the alien were.
They are packed with technology and the best on the market.
But they are also very expensive. Check out the web site:http://www.alienware.com/
get a mac book pro i got one two days ago and love it
they are a little pricey but they are worth it. there easy to use and amazing. this is my 3 laptop and the 2 previous ones were also macs.
Don’t be fooled by people who don’t know much about products. Macs are great but they also have their own problems.
Acer is a pretty good brand as well as Dell in my opinion.
I love my Mac. I’ve had it for several years now and never had a problem. My sons both use Macs..one is an undergrad and one is in law school and they swear by their Macs.
I like Toshiba. Have never had a problem with them, while my boss replaces his Sony every year when it breaks down.
Dells, so-so, ditto HP and Compaq.. BUY THE SERVICE PLAN !!!
Dell’s have always worked well for me. I’ve owned 3 Dell laptops and like 5 towers.
Get a Mac and never have laptop problems again
macbook. buy it and you will feel the same way i do
Honesty mcbook. you never loose any info again.
MAC!! Almost never have viruses.
sony vaio!
Alienware
go to http://www.alienware.com and find out!
MacBooks- they are awesome
Hps are really good too
I would get an HP
macbook – they never die
mac
get a Macbook!http://www.apple.com/mac/
Floppy drive? Who the f*** uses those things any more?
You’ll have a hard time finding a laptop with one (though you can certainly get USB 9 cm floppy drives that plug into a laptop if you actually need to use those ancient things).
An Ethernet port won’t be a problem nor will USB ports (assuming that’s what you mean by removable device).
As for which brand, I haven’t seen any decent statistics on which is more reliable and I doubt any one giving you advise has either.
That said there are certainly bad models put out by every brand, a web search on whatever model you are looking at buying should give you a pretty good idea as to whether you’ll likely to have problems with it (one or two people saying bad things could be just the occasional dud or user error but if almost every comment is that there’s something wrong then it’s worth staying away from that model).
If you want easy to carry then you probably want to look around at an ultraportable (around 12″ screen) or thin and light laptop (around 14″ screen). Larger computers can fit more powerful components along with tending to have better ergonomics (e.g. bigger screen, bigger keyboard) with 12.1″ screens being about the smallest you could go and still get a decent keyboard (though even there you may find it a bit cramped), above 14.1″ is where the laptops start to get heavier although 15.4″ is still quite doable, don’t under any circumstances go for 17″ if you want real portability.
As for macs which some people actually like despite their lack of mouse buttons and terrible keyboard, they are only worth buying if you want Mac OS. If you don’t like Vista (and who could blame you) it is still possible to get laptops with XP (though you’ll need to buy a business focused model, not too bad) and Linux is also a good choice so Vista haters don’t have to go to Apple.