Company laptops

[zwiebac11]

I and my business partner are looking for some good laptops at the lowest cost possible. I hate compaq, hp, etc. Looking for fast cpu, 1 mb ram and over 60 gb harddrives. Any help is appreciated. Which company would be the best to look at for a good product without having to pay too much?

 

[zwiebac11]

i was looking on newegg.com and found some good acer notebooks... is acer a good company for notebooks?

 

[Rottie]

What is wrong with Dell Laptop? Some like Sony Viso laptop.

 

[IlllI]

sony laptops tend to be pretty expensive and only average in performance

 

[AmigaMan]

Originally posted by: zwiebac11
I and my business partner are looking for some good laptops at the lowest cost possible. I hate compaq, hp, etc. Looking for fast cpu, 1 mb ram and over 60 gb harddrives. Any help is appreciated. Which company would be the best to look at for a good product without having to pay too much?

You may hate HP laptops, but mine is pretty nice and comes with more than 1 mb ram!

 

[tRaptor]

Dell Referb. That is all.

 

[Wuzup101]

IBM...

 

[cheesehead]

Originally posted by: Rottie
What is wrong with Dell Laptop? Some like Sony Viso laptop.

Dell is crap. I would know; I own a 9100-it's the most maintnance-prone computer I've ever owned. This is including 10-year-old PowerMacs with parts borrowed from five others.
Acer is a pretty good brand from what I've heard, but I'm not too familar with it. I would, however, keep my eye out for an IBM Thinkpad, as IBM's laptops have a well-deserved rep for quality. Toshiba laptops can occasionally be found for as little as 600$; I have used a toshiba laptop in the past, and they're remarkably long-lived machines.
If you want to go for the small-company route, CyberPower has a thin-and-light Pentium M 1.5ghz (U3-1000) for 1,020$, including OS. This is a pretty nice deal considering that the nearest thing, a Dell m700, is roughly 200$ more.
http://www.cyberpowersystem.co...tem/ntbku31000.asp?v=d

 

[Rottie]

Originally posted by: Cheesehead

Originally posted by: Rottie
What is wrong with Dell Laptop? Some like Sony Viso laptop.

Dell is crap. I would know; I own a 9100-it's the most maintnance-prone computer I've ever owned. This is including 10-year-old PowerMacs with parts borrowed from five others.
Acer is a pretty good brand from what I've heard, but I'm not too familar with it. I would, however, keep my eye out for an IBM Thinkpad, as IBM's laptops have a well-deserved rep for quality. Toshiba laptops can occasionally be found for as little as 600$; I have used a toshiba laptop in the past, and they're remarkably long-lived machines.
If you want to go for the small-company route, CyberPower has a thin-and-light Pentium M 1.5ghz (U3-1000) for 1,020$, including OS. This is a pretty nice deal considering that the nearest thing, a Dell m700, is roughly 200$ more.
http://www.cyberpowersystem.co...tem/ntbku31000.asp?v=d

Dell laptop cannot be customize to his business liking? I thought dell can do what people want. In the past I am happy with Toshiba Sateille, Dell Latitude and Compaq Presairo.

 

[hopejr]

Compaq now sucks, ever since HP bought them.

 

[randumb]

Dell seems like a good fit...

 

[IlllI]

i've read that dell's customer support has been going downhill ever since they switched their call centers to india

 

[rmrf]

Originally posted by: skunkbuster
i've read that dell's customer support has been going downhill ever since they switched their call centers to india

I would agree to that, as far as the phone support goes. However, I did work for a company where I did quite a bit of warranty work. I found it way easier to use the web to submit a ticket. I would always get a call the next day at the latest to schedule an appointment for the day after that. We had the 3 year, complete care warranty on those laptops, which is highly recommended. Another thing I liked, is that I could put in a service request for one of our out of state sales reps, and they would schedule with the user and get it all fixed up.

I would recommend Dell since I have used them before, and still use them for my personal laptop. Now if you are looking for a nice power laptop (which I assume your not, since price is an issue), IBM for the time being makes some damn good laptops.

 

[JEBB]

I would suggest you look at the iBook. Unless you have software written just for you that only runs on Windows, you can avoid the manufacturers you dislike, you'd get a durable machine and you'd avoid the major, major time devouring headaches of viruses and spy-ware. Go to the Apple Store at their web site or Small Dog computers web site.

If you already know Windows pretty well, the learning curve to Mac OSX won't be steep. The ease-of-use of OSX will quickly make up for any extra time spent learning it.

 

[Hikari]

What is wrong with HP Compaq anyway? I do think their consumer stuff is crap, but we use their laptops at work, and they are very well-made in my opinion (like the nc6000 line, etc).

 

[hopejr]

There's not much wrong with HP Compaq in terms of how well made they are imo, but compatibility between components has been a real issue of late (i.e. a brand new HP Desktop PC doesn't work with a brand new HP monitor - now how does that work?)

iBooks are good, I have one. (BTW, JEBB, welcome to the forums!)