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Recommendation for a Good Laptop Computer

posted by Dopefish on Saturday April 05 2014, @03:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the moore's-law-still-trucks-ahead dept.

An anonymous coward writes:

Question for the lentils out there: What makes and models of laptops are good these days? Traditionally, you could just get an IBM ThinkPad if you were willing and able to pay extra for quality, but judging by reviews, they aren't as consistent as they used to be. A 'nice' laptop has to get a lot of things right: fast internals, sturdy case, quality keyboard, excellent battery life, and good heat management, to name a few. Are there any manufacturers that sell machines worth buying anymore, or do you have to compromise?

 
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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by resignator on Saturday April 05 2014, @06:11PM

    by resignator (3126) on Saturday April 05 2014, @06:11PM (#26766)

    I own my own tech shop and the only Lenovos I get in for repair are simple jobs like a bad stick of ram or a dying hard drive. The worst offenders are Gateway, Acer, and HP by a large margin. I constantly have one or the other in the shop and it is rarely a cheap fix.

    Macs are great if you want to pay out the ass but make sure to get the extended warranty. $350-500 for a new logic board isnt fun to dish out.

    My top pick overall would be the Lenovo G710. For $600 bucks nothing beats a 17inch display, intel core i5, 8gigs ram, and a 1TB HD. It has all the standard bells and whistles like bluetooth, wifi, dual layer DVD burner, etc. You could literally buy 3 of these for a mac of the equivalent value and it wont cost your first born to repair it.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 05 2014, @09:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 05 2014, @09:30PM (#26831)

    The guy in this thread who touches the widest variety of machines on a day-in-and-day-out basis has still not been up-modded.
    The first-to-post thing remains a problem with Slashcode-using sites. 8-(

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    • (Score: 2) by buswolley on Sunday April 06 2014, @12:05AM

      by buswolley (848) on Sunday April 06 2014, @12:05AM (#26874)

      I suggest that all posts occurring in the first 10-15 minutes of a new story begin with a mod deficit, or a no up-mod flag flown.

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