Business laptops

[Myka]

I know two people with Acers that have had the HD kaput within the first year. They were reaplced on warranty, but that makes me ask, "Will the new one only last a year too?"

I would recommend HP. I won't buy anything else - for laptops anyway. Oh, except the Durabooks. Those are great, but you probably don't need that.

[UnderTheSea]

Have you given IBM (Lenovo) a try? I work in IT and have used nothing but IBM's since I was hired back in 99. T21, T42, T60 etc.

I haven't had one issue with any of them. I've dropped them, had my daughter think it was a spring board and nothing, not a scratch. I also like the feature of taking out the dvd drive and adding an additional battery in that bay. I pretty much only use the dvd drive on business trips, but for around work or the home I use that additional battery.

My home laptop is an HP 17" which I love as well but a little on the large size for business.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by UnderTheSea

Have you given IBM (Lenovo) a try? I work in IT and have used nothing but IBM's since I was hired back in 99. T21, T42, T60 etc.


My home laptop is an HP 17" which I love as well but a little on the large size for business.

Our shop has about 20,000 Lenovo laptops, and frankly, the move from IBM to Lenovo wasn't a good move. I just spent a couple of hours with the sales rep complaining about hardware issues, driver incompatibility, etc. While some of the new machines look nice (X200, W700), we're having "issues". We also have a limited number of high end HP, I run 2 of these at home (XP, Windows 7) and I love them.

[SeaShell]

I've been using a Panasonic Toughbook at work. The battery lasts for about 5 hours in the field and it's been performing great for me!

[mark]

Majority of our shop have moved from Toshiba Tectras to HPs with docking stations. Biggest issue was lack of dedicated serial port and getting the USB/serial adapters to work but all seem okay with them now.

As for Dells service, can't complain. Last Tuesday had a desktop that wouldn't boot so called Dell Service, on Thursday tech (contracted to Dell) was on site and replaced the motherboard and Pwr supply.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by SeaShell

I've been using a Panasonic Toughbook at work. The battery lasts for about 5 hours in the field and it's been performing great for me!

And you actually can drop them from 12 feet

[SeaShell]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

And you actually can drop them from 12 feet

Yeah.... I've conducted some testing in that regard.... But not from 12', that would require a ladder and I'd have to explain to my boss why I climbed a ladder just to drop the Toughbook.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by SeaShell

Yeah.... I've conducted some testing in that regard.... But not from 12', that would require a ladder and I'd have to explain to my boss why I climbed a ladder just to drop the Toughbook.

My actual project was to source tough laptops, so they had to go through all the tests I could perform. The larger CF29 and CF30's are not too bad, but the CF 19!! I can't even fit my fingers on the keys

[Snaz]

I buy Lenovo for our company's road warriors too. Great machines. Consider the smaller and LIGHTER X series as the T series my users are complaining of being too heavy. Don't bother with the R series. We buy our Lenovos from these guys:
http://www.sevengroup.ca/

Tell Simon Wong that Keith from Radiant recommend them.

Originally Posted by UnderTheSea

Have you given IBM (Lenovo) a try? I work in IT and have used nothing but IBM's since I was hired back in 99. T21, T42, T60 etc.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Snaz

Consider the smaller and LIGHTER X series as the T series my users are complaining of being too heavy.

to be fair, the X61's are pretty decent models. We have our fewest issues with these...