Laptop Recommendations

[carrowsboy]

I was thinking of purchasing a Dell Inspirion 8600.

I mainly want faster Internet service, a CD & DVD burner, etc.

Experiences, recommendations, etc?

[never cry wolf]

1. This probably should be in the lounge but...

I have a Toshiba sattelite pro and love it. Consumer's reports had it rated the highest for laptops last spring when I bought it. Mine has cd burner and dvd but not a dvd burner, though I am sure that is an option.

[welshTerrier2]

2. check this site

http://reviews.cnet.com/Notebooks/2001-3121_7-0.html?tag=glnav

[Cleita]

3. Don't get HP or Compaq.

eom

[billbuckhead]

4. Apple Q2 laptop marketshare surges almost two percent in U.S.

FIRST ON THINK SECRET: Apple Q2 laptop marketshare surges almost two percent in U.S.


September 26, 2003 - Apple's American marketshare of laptops in the second quarter of this year jumped almost two percent from the previous quarter, making it one of the Mac maker's largest laptop share increases in well over two years, Think Secret has learned.

Numbers from industry market intelligence firm IDC showed Apple's biggest marketshare increase was in U.S.-sold laptops, rising from 5.1 percent, or 146,000 units sold, in the first quarter of this year, to 7.0 percent, or 216,000 units sold.

The increase from Apple's PowerBooks and iBooks moved the company from sixth spot to fifth place among laptop makers.


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<http://www.thinksecret.com/>

Apple software and customer support is the best in the industry especially for music and DVD's.

[Poiuyt]

8. Apple notebooks are great

Consider a Macintosh Powerbook or iBook. Unless you absolutely, positively need to use Windows look at the Powerbooks.

[carrowsboy]

5. I know

I've heard this so many times.

Compaq used to be great til the merge. Now no one wants them.

[Mairead]

6. Actually, Compaq were awful from the founding of the company

Their stuff stopped working if you looked at it crosswise. I worked in engineering for a large computer company and NOBODY wanted to get stuck with one of the Compaqs. They seemed to die at about 3x-4x the rate of the IBM pcs, and were quirky and unreliable when they worked at all. Really terrible technology.

[Mairead]

7. I bought a used Latitude C600, 1GHz P3, 512Mb, 20Gb a year or so ago

I like it fine. The network card is shaky and needs fixed, and I wish I had a way to dial up the frequency of fan operation (I prefer cool to silent), but it's quite a nice little machine. It's fast enough to support DSL and also has an inbuilt 56K modem, and the CD burder seems to work okay (I think it might burn them a little indecisively, but I can't be sure--but to be on the safe side I haven't used it since I added the dvd/cd burner to my p4 system).

[frylock]

9. toshiba.. there is no substitute.

[Frederic Bastiat]

10. We have two Toshibas

..and they are workhorses. My previous one was a Compaq...avoid them at all costs!

[Sticky]

11. I'm in love

....with my Dell Latitude C840 - P4. Not even a small problem after formatting and installing XP. The CD burner is so simple to use you just drag and drop your files onto the Drive letter and right click to burn. That's only one example of Dell's ease of use.

It's been reliable and screams 'quality'.

(It's my first born so maybe I'm biased?)

[Abaques]

12. That is actually not an example for Dell, but for WindowsXP....

All computers with winXP and cd burners can do that.


I work with an awful lot of Dell laptops. They are not the best by far.

[ikojo]

13. At the risk of igniting a religious war I say get a

MACINTOSH




Such a beautiful machine to behold!!!!

Aaaaah I Mac....I loves my preciousssssss!

[DemNoir]

14. IBM or Apple

In the PC world I think IBM notebooks have the best build quality without question. But, the elegance and fuctionality of Apple notebooks is unmatched.