Agreed stay away from HP/Compaq anything. For business laptop the Lenovos are good and I started buying Dell's business laptop this quarter and I have to say I do like them.

Yes Mac books are nice too.

i got a dell studio 15 with a graphics card, and it runs great. quick delivery also.
the cheaper ones are good deals on their website.

I'm a Manager for large IT company and my we re-sell a variety of computer hardware as well as make our own...here are some of my suggestions.

If you are going business class...Dell and Lenovo are quite good. Dell's support can leave you on hold for quite a while but now that they are re-selling through big box stores, you can get more local support.

If you are looking for a home office model...Asus makes a good laptop as does LG. Toshiba is okay if you move a little more upscale but their support can be as ugly as it gets.

Acer does an all around good job if you don't go too cheap. Their wireless setups are actually very good because they wrap their displays in order to extend their antenna's

Panasonic also makes a very good laptop (not just the toughbook) but they are pricy.

Lastly, I'm not a fan of anything MAC...I've had to support them in the past and it was a complete nightmare (worse than supporting VISTA plus unreasonably expensive).

I have had the least problems with the 2 toshibas i have had.

i had a higher end acer i bought a few years ago, nothinb but problems

I don't mind their displays but i will not buy another one.

Macbook pro now.. its solid slim and working and for me was easy to transition to.

Isn't it pretty much hit or miss? I had a Toshiba it was a piece of crap. I had 2 Dell's 1 was good the other nothin but problems. I bought my wife an HP(good price) and its been running fine.

half of my problems with the acer was the power connector. kept wobbling loose from the board.. they fixed it under warantee but after it was off i could not fix it myself and never really wanted to send it in to have them replace the whole board on my dime.

that is the main reason i started looking at macs.. for the magnetic power connector so that i can't wreck it like I did that one.

Go with a Mac, I will never again buy a piece of sh#t PC, once you go Mac you will never go back.

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Agreed!:biggrin:

Good thread. My PC is pushing 8 (human) years old now. In PC years I think its more like 80. I'm tired of all the problems I've had running XP on it so I've really been thinking about a macbook or macbook pro. But if I do go with laptop with a windows OS I'm leaning towards the Toshibas.

thank you for all the info
I will look into a few models