Notebook buying help?

[tony3]

My dad bought one of the first ever ibm notebooks that came out, my brother still has it, wow that thing was pimp.

Edit:Most ibm's are out of my price range

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1184325&CatId=1345

Anyone have any comments about that? Avertec? Any good? That is 30 bucks more and comes witha dvdrw, slightly faster, and a better video card.

[FragTek]

My personal favorite notebook manufacturer is Sager. A few of the main reasons that I like them is that they have a firm reputation in longevity and performance. They also have a good offering of AMD based processors which gives them an advantage over "Intel-only" notebook manufacturers.

Check out the selection at www.sagernotebook.com

[ShooterJM]

My dad bought one of the first ever ibm notebooks that came out, my brother still has it, wow that thing was pimp.

Edit:Most ibm's are out of my price range

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1184325&CatId=1345

Anyone have any comments about that? Avertec? Any good? That is 30 bucks more and comes witha dvdrw, slightly faster, and a better video card.

Like I said, that's the one I've been looking at. It got pretty good ratings in PC World, if I remember right it actually got a best buy award. Keep in mind that although the TOTAL RAM is the same, the toshiba has one 512mb chip and the averatec has two 256mb chips.

[Steelrat]

Here is what I just bought. Or, more accurately, what my wife made me buy her

[quik]

Oooo, thats nice. Specs?

I say go for a powerbook or iBook, but I <3 apple.

[Steelrat]

Its a Fujitsu lifebook.

P4 3.2
128 meg nvidia or ati (can't remember right now)
1 gig of ram
60 gig HD
17" monitor that is absolutely beautiful

Fujitsu makes quality stuff. I know someone who works at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA, and all he ever sees on the campus is IBMs and Fujitsus.

[magman007]

im sorry todownplay daysprings advice, but please avoid compaq like the plague. i had one and it was a piece of crap, never ever worked right, and it pissed me off to no end., i thought with the hp buy out, they may get better, but alas, it appears i was wrong. my friend has one her ein the dorms, and it very rarely works correctly as well,

where as my toshibas have always been performers.

current toshiba is a

toshiba portege m200

80 gig hd
2.0 pentium m processor
nvida gforce fx card


its awesome, the tablet funcntion is amazingly nice, as i use it to take notes. its light as hell, slim, and has amaing batterylife. i wholeheartedly reccomend this laptop, despite its heafty pricetag (2500, but with more features than a damn alienware)


i would avoid avertec, not a brand name i am familiar with, and when it comes to laptops, i really trust the brand names that i know will perform.

good luck in your decision, but remember, buy toshiba

also, look into the A25 if you can find one, it is an amazing book, its what i had before this, and i loved it. i still miss it actually

[Steelrat]

^^^^

HP and Compaq merged, so the laptops are essentially the same things with different cases.

[lord1234]

wrongo steelrat..i had an amazing issue with compaq recently, which i had to call and ***** to get them to replace with a proper laptop....(and they sent me out a new hp)

also tiger direct sucks...start monitoring slickdeals.net and fatwallet.com for good deals on laptops..

[Steelrat]

wrongo steelrat..i had an amazing issue with compaq recently, which i had to call and ***** to get them to replace with a proper laptop....(and they sent me out a new hp)

also tiger direct sucks...start monitoring slickdeals.net and fatwallet.com for good deals on laptops..

Wait, how was I wrong there? Its the same company, thats why they sent you an HP when you complained about your compaq.

[lord1234]

the compaq was crap...the hp was not.

[bofh]

good luck in your decision, but remember, buy toshiba

Eh, our company decided to avoid Toshiba on this year's tech refresh.

Over the past year, we've gotta about a 1 in 5 return rate for something breaking. (about 50 returns last year)

Yes, they are covered under warrenty, but we feel the quality has taken a dive in the last few years.

So this year, we went with IBM.


Take that for what it's worth.

[magman007]

huh, i hadnt noticed a quality drop, but then again, ive only owned 2 of their products. but i know alot of other people that own toshiba products as well, and they have all praised them. Im sorry to hear of these problems. Ibm is a great product as well, and i wont put them down of course.

[fire1811]

the toshiba in your original post is not a bad laptop for that price IMO

whichever you decide to go with make sure it does not have integrated graphics

[Buff]

Hah! Try playing Halflife2

er....its verry easy as long as its got a 9600m or 9700m.......or better (no Nvidia stuff...)