Poll who makes the best Laptops?

[gourmettea]

I like the IBM T41 titanium goodness.........


Edit: oops....I forgot...I just added Yao's Laptop

 

[NutBucket]

IBM no question.

 

[Mr N8]

Originally posted by: NutBucket
IBM no question.

Indeed.

(typed on a Dell Precision M60)

 

[iamwiz82]

Apple

 

[NutBucket]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Apple

ECS mobos

 

[notfred]

Apple and IBM.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: notfred
Apple and IBM.

 

[dquan97]

dell

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: notfred
Apple and IBM.

if the question is who makes the best laptops period, then yes. Who makes the best laptops for the money? Dell. just because you can get good deals on them easy.

 

[thraxes]

I ordered an Apple and can't wait for it to get here. At work I use an IBM. Both do what they are supposed to do really well, but as for a machine that I would recommend to anyone that asks: Deffinately IBM

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: fivespeed5

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: notfred
Apple and IBM.

if the question is who makes the best laptops period, then yes. Who makes the best laptops for the money? Dell. just because you can get good deals on them easy.

I agree but the OP didn't ask for "best laptop value".

If it comes to "value" the best laptops are:

Dell 600m and Compaq X1000/HP ZT3000 - both can be had for around $1,200 loaded

 

[gourmettea]

Originally posted by: NutBucket

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Apple

ECS mobos

eh....Apple uses ECS mobos?

 

[saxophonoia]

Apple or IBM

 

[NutBucket]

Originally posted by: gourmettea

Originally posted by: NutBucket

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Apple

ECS mobos

eh....Apple uses ECS mobos?

ECS makes them for Apple.

Anyhow, I can't comment on Dells since I've only bad experience with them. I'd buy a desktop from them but I wouldn't touch their laptops.

 

[gourmettea]

Originally posted by: NutBucket

Originally posted by: gourmettea

Originally posted by: NutBucket

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Apple

ECS mobos

eh....Apple uses ECS mobos?

ECS makes them for Apple.

Anyhow, I can't comment on Dells since I've only bad experience with them. I'd buy a desktop from them but I wouldn't touch their laptops.

humm..ECS...is that the same Company that Fry's gives away with those AMD proccessor package deals???

<<went through two of those if that's the case

 

[Vette73]

IBM makes the best business laptops but if I was to get a laptop now I would get a eMachines one with the Athlon64

 

[MadPeriot]

What about Acers? Are those any good?

 

[J Heartless Slick]

I am on my third IBM laptop and I am looking forward to getting a T42p with a 15" LCD...

 

[Abhi]

Originally posted by: dquan97
dell

You must be jokin...
I like my 8500 ... But IBM makes the best...

 

[thraxes]

Originally posted by: gourmettea

Originally posted by: NutBucket

Originally posted by: gourmettea

Originally posted by: NutBucket

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Apple

ECS mobos

eh....Apple uses ECS mobos?

ECS makes them for Apple.

Anyhow, I can't comment on Dells since I've only bad experience with them. I'd buy a desktop from them but I wouldn't touch their laptops.

humm..ECS...is that the same Company that Fry's gives away with those AMD proccessor package deals???

<<went through two of those if that's the case

Lets do some research.... Apples G5 machines are made by HonHai, better known as Foxconn.
ECS lost Apples contract to make Notebooks due to "quality concerns" . So Apples Notebooks are currently made by *drumroll* Asustek (we know them all right...) and Quanta (make NBs for NEC, Sony, Gateway...). Compal makes the 15" Powerbook as well as certain Dell and HP Notebooks. Interestingly Compal also has a contract for making a 15" tablett PC for Apple

Source: www.taiwanhightech.com - an OEM industry reporting paper. The real big list costs $$$$ but screenshots of the list and the actual news archives can be found on the site with a little searching.

http://www.taiwanhightech.com/thtnews/bringontheorders.html

EDIT: For kicks I searched the site to see who makes IBM T series laptops.... the same company that makes Sony Vaios and Apples: Asustek. The R and X series are made by Wistron which is part of Acer

 

[Sahakiel]

Originally posted by: thraxes

Originally posted by: gourmettea

Originally posted by: NutBucket

Originally posted by: gourmettea

Originally posted by: NutBucket

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Apple

ECS mobos

eh....Apple uses ECS mobos?

ECS makes them for Apple.

Anyhow, I can't comment on Dells since I've only bad experience with them. I'd buy a desktop from them but I wouldn't touch their laptops.

humm..ECS...is that the same Company that Fry's gives away with those AMD proccessor package deals???

<<went through two of those if that's the case

Lets do some research.... Apples G5 machines are made by HonHai, better known as Foxconn.
ECS lost Apples contract to make Notebooks due to "quality concerns" . So Apples Notebooks are currently made by *drumroll* Asustek (we know them all right...) and Quanta (make NBs for NEC, Sony, Gateway...). Compal makes the 15" Powerbook as well as certain Dell and HP Notebooks. Interestingly Compal also has a contract for making a 15" tablett PC for Apple

Source: www.taiwanhightech.com - an OEM industry reporting paper. The real big list costs $$$$ but screenshots of the list and the actual news archives can be found on the site with a little searching.

http://www.taiwanhightech.com/thtnews/bringontheorders.html

EDIT: For kicks I searched the site to see who makes IBM T series laptops.... the same company that makes Sony Vaios and Apples: Asustek. The R and X series are made by Wistron which is part of Acer

lol... I was wondering why the X31 fits perfectly in Vaio's neoprene sleeve.

 

[Alt]

Asustek

 

[Vadatajs]

I based my vote on my own personal experience. I would rate apple > dell > whitebox (vpr matrix) > HP/Compaq. I haven't used any of the others so I can't fairly judge their quality.

 

[Frightcrawler]

If you used any of the other brands, dell would be much closer to the end of that expression. Their deals are great...but service + build quality have declined greatly.
I think Apple and IBM are the best. Sager probably comes up as 3rd.

 

[Krk3561]

From Power Notebooks:

Virtually none of the "Name" brands manufacture their own laptops, with the only exceptions being Asus, Twinhead and Apple, and even Twinhead and Apple do not make all of their own.

All of the rest buy their laptops from what is called an Original Design Manufacturer (ODM). These ODMs sell their computers to several different OEMs who then install the Hard Drive (usually an Hitachi or Toshiba), Processor and System Memory. They then put their label on it and market it.

For example:

An ODM named Clevo makes the Sager NP5690 and the original Alienware Area 51-M, the Voodoo MClass M550, the Hypersonic Sonic Aviator, and they are all the same computer. Clevo also makes the Sager NP8890 and the Voodoo MClass M600 and they are also the same computer.

Of course the Sager models have a much sweeter price tag!

An ODM named Compal makes some of the DELL, Hewlett Packard and Compaq line of laptops, as well as the PowerPro M 5:6, PowerPro M 5:14, PowerPro M 6:33, and the PowerPro 8:17.

Asus, famous worldwide for their top quality motherboards and other components, also makes their own laptops, and the PowerPro C 3:17 and the PowerPro C 3:23.

The Dell Latitude and the Sony Vaio are made by Quanta, who also makes many of the IBM laptops, and the PowerPro C 3:16. Quanta is well known as the best and highest quality laptop ODM in the world.

The Micron Transport Treck and Treck 2 are made by GVC. Compaq is actually manufactured by companies called Inventec (Armada and Prosignia lines) and Arima (Presario line).

Other ODM names are Mitac, FIC, and Uniwill, among others. Not exactly what you would call "Name" brands, and yet it is their laptops that end up with the "Name" brands on them.

Sager and Pro-Star Computers are made by Clevo. Clevo is one of the largest, and best, in the world.

Well, you get the idea.

Some call this the "Dirty little secret of the Laptop Industry".