The Stoic
New Member
As a store manager at a computer retailer/tech shop I have seen both sides of the computer. So here's my .02.
-NEVER buy an emachine
-NEVER buy a Celeron, its a rip off, wikipedia processors and take a look.
-In my experience, aside from emachines, pretty much every laptop can be reliable.
-Check out the design and then the specs, each brand can have a poorly designed model.
-For the most part HP's are ok but they do not have the best built chassis.
IMO Sony's are nice but if you are going to spend that much money get a Mac and put XP on it alongside OSX (use parallels so you can run both at the same time).
-Refurbished machines are fine just get an extended warranty if available, usually $40 or so more and you are still saving a bunch of money.
-Acer's may not be the prettiest but are the easiest to do self repair and in general are built solid enough.
-Mac Air is cool but note it does not have an optical drive and only has either a 64gb or an 80gb Hard drive. (you can use another computers cd drive)
-Always get a backup external drive
Just some thoughts from the tech side, can't wait to quit and go to OCS though.
-NEVER buy an emachine
-NEVER buy a Celeron, its a rip off, wikipedia processors and take a look.
-In my experience, aside from emachines, pretty much every laptop can be reliable.
-Check out the design and then the specs, each brand can have a poorly designed model.
-For the most part HP's are ok but they do not have the best built chassis.
IMO Sony's are nice but if you are going to spend that much money get a Mac and put XP on it alongside OSX (use parallels so you can run both at the same time).
-Refurbished machines are fine just get an extended warranty if available, usually $40 or so more and you are still saving a bunch of money.
-Acer's may not be the prettiest but are the easiest to do self repair and in general are built solid enough.
-Mac Air is cool but note it does not have an optical drive and only has either a 64gb or an 80gb Hard drive. (you can use another computers cd drive)
-Always get a backup external drive
Just some thoughts from the tech side, can't wait to quit and go to OCS though.