Looking for an alternative to Dell

[jblaz]

I have a Sager NP4780 and love it. I've never had to send it back for repairs so I personally don't know what that is like. I know if I had a business and had multiple lappys i would want a low down time and Sager is in California and the travel to and from for me i Florida would be at least a week. But the key thing is if the lappy never breaks it never has to be sent back.

 

[EdfromCocoa]

I love my Toshiba Satelitte 2455-S3001- Durable and reliable. Make sure you buy extended warranty in case something happens. I had a screen go blank and damn, whe I called the 800 #, within 2 minutes problem solved. Why Toshiba? They invented the laptop. Assembled in US like Dell. I also bought a heat sink for $68 from raindesign.com in San Francisoco (based on Laptop magazine recommendation). Battery and laptop always run cool; he sink sink is cool to touch. They call it the iLap.

FYI, I work for the federal government in DC and have no financial interest in Toshiba or Raindesgin.

Ed

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: EdfromCocoa
I also bought a heat sink for $68 from raindesign.com in San Francisoco (based on Laptop magazine recommendation).

For those searching for the iLap, the correct URL would be raindesigninc.com.

Link.

Would describe such a product as more of a stand, or a notebook cooler, and not an actual heat sink, per se.

 

[Wuzup101]

IBM would definitely be my choice for a buisness laptop unless you want to go to something like a mac powerbook. Both are very capeable computers and both are top of the line build wise. I'm a pretty big mac fan but since it's not simple to just change over your whole OS and all IBM would be my choice if I were to get a PC notebook. T42 is definitely a fav of mine. I'd love to have one!

 

[jvarszegi]

Not simple to change your OS, and not even possible for people running many programs. The PC user that's stuck only with Mac-available software is nonexistent, unless he/she was planning on migrating in the first place, and anyway the licenses are usually not transferable. One big exception to this is the beginner, someone who only uses his/herlaptop for editing and viewing simple documents and surfing the Web.

One great piece of software I started using recently is OpenOffice.org. It's available for Windows, Linux, Mac, etc. It works well, and can help someone migrate off of Windows at no expense whatsoever.

 

[cheesehead]

IBM makes freakishly awesome laptops. They're durable, reliable, and extremely high quality. Admittedly, they're a bit more expensive, but I would'nt trust anything important to a Dell if I were you.