Hi,

I'm getting a notebook and would like to get some opinions on the brands and 'most bang for your buck' machines.

What brands are the most reliable?

Is LG ok?

And, which notebook gives me the best value for its price tag?

Originally posted by jr.spikey:

What brands seem to be the most prone to damage?
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Cant answer this question. Those with carbon fiber casing will be alot sturdier. Magnesium Alloy one will be slightly stronger than plastic and cools the laptop faster.

[quote]And, which notebook gives me the best value for its price tag?

IMO, Acer. Asus also good but you pay slightly more for the brand. The choice of notebook and the perceived value is all up to people.

i am using my third laptop

1st was a thinkpad (still around)
2nd was a asus (die until cannot be revived, threw away in Australia liao)
3rd is a T41 ThinkPad

if i had to buy a new laptop, i will still stick with ibm thinkpads
they are slightly more expensive, but really stable and durable

but my T41 is still going strong, coming to 4 yrs liao
my C drive still got 2GB left
looks like will only need to buy new laptop if C drive got no more space

Originally posted by noopi:

if i had to buy a new laptop, i will still stick with ibm thinkpads
they are slightly more expensive, but really stable and durable

but my T41 is still going strong, coming to 4 yrs liao
my C drive still got 2GB left
looks like will only need to buy new laptop if C drive got no more space

Yup. IBM is good, but expensive. And I only trust the T series. The rest are not as good.

And why dont you buy an external HDD. 2.5 inch 80GB now cost less than $100.

Originally posted by abao:

Yup. IBM is good, but expensive. And I only trust the T series. The rest are not as good.

And why dont you buy an external HDD. 2.5 inch 80GB now cost less than $100.

i hv an ext hdd
but installing of programmes has to go to C drive

and i don't know how to transfer my itune file out form my C drive

acer or asus as recommend by other forumnite in this thread.

Originally posted by jr.spikey:

Hi,

I'm getting a notebook and would like to get some opinions on the brands and 'most bang for your buck' machines.

What brands seem to be the most prone to damage (both software and hardware failures)?

Is LG ok?

And, which notebook gives me the best value for its price tag?

Softwares failures - hardly any, unless you are one that goes about testing this and that. About all test softwares will crash for certain machine, works fine for others, so it's no guarantee.

Hardware failures - Heng or suay... we have very reliable Acer laptops, not-so-reliable Acer ones. Same goes for all brands. LG is OK.

Best value - Acer, Dell, Lenovo (not Lenovo Thinkpad, which was previously made by IBM) , Packard Bell, some models of Compaq

My home now got 2 acer laptops, 1 hp laptop, 1 compaq laptop and 1 asus eee ultra-small laptop belonging to my brother's wife. My brother's family dont live with me though but they always bring their laptops along as they drive (dont need carry) + they subscribe to m1 always on broadband mar...

All the laptops are working well.

Last time, when i was in the army, 4 IBM thinkpads spoilt within 6 months due to moistures in the air.

Bang for the buck

Dell Vostro series(depends on which size u like)

Acer Travel mate 6292
Acer Travel mate 4720
Acer Aspire 5920G
Acer Aspire 4920
Compaq presario V3000 series
Del XPS m1330(the basic one)

try to have 2gb ram....1gb for vista isnt really enuff

Originally posted by Gasfene:

My home now got 2 acer laptops, 1 hp laptop, 1 compaq laptop and 1 asus eee ultra-small laptop belonging to my brother's wife. My brother's family dont live with me though but they always bring their laptops along as they drive (dont need carry) + they subscribe to m1 always on broadband mar...

All the laptops are working well.

Last time, when i was in the army, 4 IBM thinkpads spoilt within 6 months due to moistures in the air. We put the laptop outside on field trip.

IBM dont do Milspec laptops...so far onli Dell,Mobileforce, Panasonic does milspec laptops....

knowing that SAF are cheapskates and soldiers misuse everything

no normal person would do what u did with the thinkpads

thinkpads are tough...especially the 60 onwards version...

i call it misuse for just leaving it outside..

accidentally spilt coffee....milo.....water on mine and it still works..the keyboard drainage really works...dropped my laptop down stairs before and it still keeps ticking...

I had owned 3 laptops before passing it down.

my first was an acer.
fairly okay, except balding keyboards, hard to presskeys and a burnt out adaptor. Cant blame as it's more than 4 years

my second was a sony
No problem with it. Passed it on as my mom needed a laptop T.T

and my current is a Hp.
Minor Problems with it's keyboard (caused by me partly).

In my opinion, go for a compaq. it has the quality and the performance.

Why no Fujitsu?

Fujitsu expensive, quality so-so. Slightly above average only nia.

I advocate dell. Cheap, quality not bad (mine coming 3 years), customer service also not bad. Next day onsite repairs. Just a lil ugly.

im nt very sure.. but this is my 2nd notebook tt im using… and its toshiba all the same… i kind of condemed fujitsu as when i used to work in a notebook company in NUS during my attachement, and students who orderd the fujitsu notebook, had encoutned problems like trouble booting up, getting dead pixels and gettign blue screen… hence the technician had to come down, had us a software, so as to avoid the problems to keep cuming.. and they even had to unscrew the notebook to do smthing to it..

Toshiba has got heat problems, which up till now, is unsolved.

Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:

Toshiba has got heat problems, which up till now, is unsolved.

Toshiba pre-installes a lot of stupid extra programs in its laptops.

Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:

Toshiba has got heat problems, which up till now, is unsolved.

?? wad heat problems??

Originally posted by davidche:

Toshiba pre-installes a lot of stupid extra programs in its laptops.

i do agree with you tt there's lot of unneccessary programs... but u can uninstall them if u like... so its nt much of a problem wad...

Originally posted by stevephua:

?? wad heat problems??

mayi has said before that she uses 2 of her friends toshiba laptops as heater in her school labs

Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:

Toshiba has got heat problems, which up till now, is unsolved.

yea lol.... my friend's toshiba went service for 5-6 times a year cos of that

Originally posted by davidche:

Toshiba pre-installes a lot of stupid extra programs in its laptops.

So do all laptop manufacturers.

Dell Vostro 12 inch…very good deal….

Been using my Toshiba M100 for 1 year plus… so far still never required any servicing although nowadays I mostly use it for more than 10 hours almost everyday.

Originally posted by AngZangGui:

Been using my Toshiba M100 for 1 year plus... so far still never required any servicing although nowadays I mostly use it for more than 10 hours almost everyday.

liddat only? my acer travelmate 4102 works 24hours for a year liao. still ok so far...i always make sure its well ventilated