Re: Suggestions for New Laptop.
- From: sbarry@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Scott Barry)
- Date: 22 Jul 2007 10:25:55 -0700
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Hello All.
I am in the market for a new notebook/laptop. I am looking at DeLL,
Toshiba and recommendations from this group.
Any suggestions are gratefully appreciated.
One thing that has turned me off is having no choice between Vista &
XP Pro.
TIA
As a frugal small-business employee, I get a new laptop roughly once every 3 years, typically next
to top-of-the-line with all the fixin's. I have owned Toshiba Satellite Pros (2) and Tecras (2) for
the last 12 years; I have no desktop machine and my laptop runs nearly 24x7, though I've started
using Stand-By more frequently to reduce machine wear.
After some frustration with Toshiba customer service and a few too many hard-drive and power supply
depot-repair experiences, I made the switch to IBM ThinkPad two year ago, and I'll never go back to
Toshiba, unless I see some change with the Lenovo purchase and the company's attitude to customer
service -- as of today, I'm quite happy with the decision and I'm looking forward to my next machine
in 2008.
I do recommend purchasing the 3-year warranty, if not included in the price, and you can typically
call the company to purchase the additional 2-year coverage, after purchase. It's an individual
decision though as to whether or not one must touch a particular brand/model machine (keyboard
layout / form-factor) before purchasing, so the last consideration I would contribute is whether you
buy online (my preference is CDW -- they have great ready-to-ship machines with no-fluff, installed
OEM business software packages, and they will most likely match other mail-order prices) or at your
local electronics store (we have no such big-box gadget here in Key West, Florida, and I don't do
RadioShack, not even for batteries anymore).
Regards,
Scott Barry
SBBWorks, Inc.
P. S. Purchase (or upgrade) as much memory as you can afford, and if possible purchase the largest
single-chip size (for example, one 1GB chip instead of two 512MB chips), in order to consider an
upgrade say at holiday time!
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