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I've been asked to assess my office's new laptops

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Steve

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Our current laptop line is the HP nc6000. These have not been a lot of fun - the first round had the wireless button and light but no wireless card built in, and they also needed a BIOS update to fix serial port and touchpad issues. The second round had Toshiba hard drives that slowly died off one by one, this was a pain. The Fujitsus they sent as replacements worked fine, but when they started sending Seagates those wouldn't take our images.

Anyway it's getting time for a new rollout and our manager has asked me to look at the HP nc6300 series. I'd like input on these, pros and cons type feedback, and I'd like to also be able to present alternatives like the nc6230, or models from IBM and others.

What have been your experiences with these models, or any others you may suggest, and their support? What would you recommend for buying a few dozen of?
 
If you go Dell get the Latitude line. However Dell is going to release new Core Duo models in a few weeks so if you want those hold off. I wasn't impressed by the D600, ****** keyboard. The D610 is supposed to be better. New D810's seem ok. Get the Gold Level support or whatever and you'll be set.

Lenovo it depends what size you want. Avoid the Z60t 14" widescreen as it only has GMA900 graphics, limits Vista upgradeability. T43's with X300 graphics or T60's with X1300/GMA950 graphics are good choices, but pricier. The R-series is as reliable and well built, but bulkier than most laptops in its line; much cheaper tho. Lenovo support is top notch, based out of Georgia for most people. All US tho.

I love HP's consumer notebooks in bang for the buck, but if you're going to try them again after the last experience I would request to try a model out for a few months first. IMO can't go wrong with Lenovo, Dell should be ok too.
 
I have seen several of our Dell Latitude D610 laptops with scratches and dents that seem to just keep humming away. We still have Latitude C series in service, they seem to hold up very well, although most everyone has a D series now. I don't like the small screens on the D4xx series, but if you need ultraportable I guess you can't go wrong.
 
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