Need New NoteBook. Which one?
 

My ancient laptop that was about eight years old and weighed like 20lbs crapped out over the weekend. :(

But that means it's time to get a new one!! :)

Last time I went for big-screen. But I quickly found I'm primarily doing web and email when I use it. So this time I want to go for light and portable.

What notebooks do y'all recommend?

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whats the fucking point in telling you?

You can't fucking afford one...




ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaahahhahahahahaha





I really am a cunt :)

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Get a Vaio if you want light and portable. I got the Dell 8600 because I use it as my every day computer. It's lighter than a desktop but not by much ;)

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I just got a new dell inspiron 6000.
Pretty light... relative to my old one which was probably similar to your ancient beast...

15.4 inch widescreen and all the goodies... they're pretty cheap and I really don't mind carrying it around. its pretty light.

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i've always bought toshiba laptops. not sure of their latest offerings, but never dissapointed.

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In a fit of pique once I "frisbeed" a Sony vaio...they fly well.

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I am typing this on a HP zd8000..its really cool , except my finger has worn away the touchpad silvering on a one inch square of it , it is now a green transistor board

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So does the corp. where my brother works. (Few hundred traveling people, so alot of laptops)

Heard alot of good about toshibas

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Never have owned a notebook/laptop. If I'm away from the computer I generally want to be away from the computer. ;>))

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Vaios have something which is known as "sleeping sickness" .. they last initially for about a year before you have to get them returned to base as they just start to shut down .. they overheat due to shitty heatsinks used (which although helps their parts and support) does nothing for the end user. You can buy these decent hezatsinks and get them put in for you to remove this problem as Sony sure as hell wont put them in. That said, Toshibas / HP / Alienware seem to be the most stable at preset ..

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I can attest to this.


I'll never get another Sony. Go for the HP, it's kicking ass in all the tests that the geek sites put these through. :)

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TE, you are my hero!! :okthumb:

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Ok, so we got two recommendations for HP, one for Dell and two countermands on the Vaio.

I definitely need something for travelling. Won't be using it as a desktop.

Any more suggestions?

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The viao will cover you for "now and then use" but don't depend on it. Mine lasted 11 months of "now and then" before turning to shit "all the time", it's back with me now after being "fixed" for the second time :(

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sony YUCK

why buy a fucking computer from a car stereo and tv maker?????

at least go with a computer related manufacturer.

ahh yeah toshibas suck too jajaja.


HP/Compaq

ALIENWARE

or DELL

nothing else baby.. which reminds me i have to frisbee my piss of shit toshiba soon and by me a nice dell.

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My old computer was a Dell (desktop). And my laptop then went South was a Dell. Not sure why everyone likes Dell's -- except me. I think they suck!! http://oprano.com/msgboard/images/smilies/mad.gif

I also don't speak Hindu for the support service translations. http://oprano.com/msgboard/images/smilies/dry.gif

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I agree on sony, but badmouthing toshibas while supporting compaq? are you smoking comcraq?

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That was *Hindu*??? Oops. No wonder the Pakistani/English dictionary didn't help.

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:bustingup

You really do hit the spot sometimes :okthumb:

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My toshiba was always overheating.

It got discus -ussed..to heavy to frisbee

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My favorite is when you contact them online, they say something like "My name is Hrutiuditdid. But you can call me Yehieditisastata." Why not just make it "Anne" or "Jane" or something easy? :lol:

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could be the hd. i always replace em right away.

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:yowsa:

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My wife got the new sony a few mths ago so I just asked her why , and she said..

a.) because it looks cute
b.) because she'd rather choke on her own vomit and die than take my advice over computer purchases as I tend to destroy them anyway


hmmmm

it seems Nickatilynx may have to choke a bitch!! LOL

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The funniest thing, Peaches, is someone a few months was telling me -- not sure if this was Dell or one of a billion other companies -- calling somewhere for support and this guy with the thickest Indian accent, so much that's he's nearly not understandable -- says "call me, Bob". Of course it came out sounding like "Boob".

And the caller was like, "Bull! What's your real name?"

"I must assured you kind madame or sir, my name is really Boob."

"Oh yeah? Where do you live there, Bobby?"

"I-I-I I live in Cle-vuh-lund, USA. I am Boob from Cle-vuh-lund. Go baseball team from Cle-vuh-lund! We rain!"

"Rain? Rain? Oh, reign? You mean Rule?"

"Yes, yes, we Cle-vuh-lund team we rule. We number first!"

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ummmm...change this poor Indian to a Jamaican or a Jew and there's be all hell to play.

Looks up...

is this kkk.com?

I mean ..

niggas please!!!!

:)

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They could be Indian, Jamaican, Mexican, Samatran, Sudanese, Serbo-Croatian or Klingon ....

If the mudda fluckers are going to do technical support for English speaking people, they need to speak and to understand flucking English!!!!

http://oprano.com/msgboard/images/smilies/ranting.gif

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What would an American know about speaking English?

;-)))

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LOL!!!

Oy, another Oprano tangent.

This is so not helping get recommendations on a laptop, damn it! http://oprano.com/msgboard/images/smilies/smile.gif

We are ALL http://oprano.com/msgboard/images/smilies/offtopic.gif

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I looking for a new notebook. Leaning towards Toshiba. Looking for an ultraportable, nothing more then 5 lbs.

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Sounds like what I'm looking for as well, nothing more than 5 lbs.

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So I started researching, came up with this at ZD Net:


I think for the extra pound or two, and extra half-inch width, I'll get myself one of the thin-and-lights.

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My personal info on laptops is five years old - what is that in computers, 30? - but I had very good luck with Thinkpads. Even fucking lawyers had trouble breaking them.

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As I'm looking for an under-a-grand one, after doing more research, I'm now leaning towards either one of the Toshiba Satellite M55 series ones or an HP dv1000 which has surprisingly good features and design. (Surprising in that it's definitely not "my fathers" HP of yore.)

The Think Pad isn't bad at all if I want to jump up to $1,300. Has that fingerprint reader log-on and security features up the wahzoo. However as I don't plan on walking around with the secret schematics of a Fortune 100 company's new prototype death-ray satellite, think I'll go cheap instead.

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Thinkpads are rock solid.. I used to have a tiny X20 which survived being sandwiched between my back and a marble step at great force :) The screen was half smashed, but it still worked perfectly.

The new thinkpads have harddisk "airbags" aswell. Built in motion sensors that stop disk activity if you throw it accross the room, drop it etc.

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well i am talking about it because i have experience. i have a satellite that needs to be in space.

compaqs i like joes a lot and i have had experience with a couple of them and they are pretty ok.

compaq doesn´t make TV´s toshiba does jajaja shit i think they even make washing machines.

toshibas are heavy and overheat easy.

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ermn why do you need support ????

it is windows, it is just a laptop and best of all it has an instructions manual.

jeezz

the only time i called tech support was to find out if my acer could take a pentium 133 instead of the pentium 90 cause that was not in the manual.

if you have to call tech support for a laptop then you got what you deserver LOL..

the only thing that can go bad that you can not fix with software would be a hardware problem then just send it back. and make sure you have a back up.

this reminds me of nick´s wheel chair joke

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The Toshiba is very light. 14.1 inches and weighs under four pounds
http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/...7&ccid=1291021

But I found it to be a little too delicate.

The one I just ordered is a Lifebook from Fujitsu.
http://store.shopfujitsu.com/fpc/Eco....do?series=E82

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as usual. :blink:

Drav, I have both a Vaio and a Toshiba. Both are more or less fully loaded with extra pepperoni. They serve me quite well.

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Ha! Knew it!

;-)))