Money help: What is a good brand for laptops? - Help.com

Dell! Dude you’re getting a Dell!

Weed! Dude, you’re getting some pot!

An HP or a Vaio.

Either Dell or Fujitsu Siemens

Asus.
Acer.
Dell.
Fujitsu (Siemens) - they’re in the process of splitting.
HP.
Sony, if money isn’t an issue.
Toshiba.

When you’re a teacher, you’ll want a Mac.

The music composition software available for it blows the PC stuff out of the water. If I had to buy a new computer and I had limited resources, I’d buy a refurbished MacBook Pro from a year and a half ago, for a deep discount.

If you’re desperate to run Mac OS X (though I really don’t understand why you would be), then get yourself a similarly specced Windows-based laptop, thereby saving massive amounts of money and go down the Hackintosh route of putting OS X on yourself.

Personally, I’d stick to Intel just now.
The performance of the Core2 models is significantly better than AMD’s offerings.

As for exact models, that depends a lot on your needs - will a single core suffice or do you need a quad?

Also, personally, it would depend quite a bit on what deals you could get for different laptops.
I mean, there’s no point deciding you want a specific model of processor if almost no-one uses it or if it costs significantly more than a slightly lower-spec model.

The ‘pretty’ laptops tend to be the Sonys or the Macs.
Neither is worth the money.

You want a processor that’s 2GHz+, preferably a dual-core one if the price is right.
2GB of RAM, 1 would suffice but 2 is safer. 4 is probably unnecessary.
An SSD would be better than a HDD in terms of reliability and battery life but will cost more, so a HDD is probably a better bet - the larger the better.
If you can get a laptop with a discrete graphics chip (basically a second, smaller processor that deals with the display), then that’s always a good thing but again it’s a matter of money.

Beyond that, it’s up to you.

DONT GET A DELL. They SUCK. The advantage of buying them online and not being able tog get them in a shop is STUPID. All it means is that when you have a problem with the laptop, which you will, you cant go into a shop to fix it. You have to call up and speak to someone who has no clue about laptops and is paid to google your problem to help you fix it. I know because my friend works for Dell and has a set list of questions and answers. When he is asked an unusual one, he googles it, that’s all.

And to fix it, you have to send it off for weeks at a time. I would suggest Asus. I sell laptops every day of the week, and I personally think Mac is the best, but as you think you cant afford it, then Asus. Acer is also good. Toshiba is ONLY good if it’s a business laptop, which it probably won’t be. If you need any extra advice, shout me. I advise people every day on what laptop to buy!

Yay. Someone actually agrees with me on help.com!!! Thankyou deadwol!!! I love macbooks more than life itself. It is unusual that you have had so many problems with the dvd drive. I have seen the odd problem in my days of repairing laptops, but it’s usually due to the owners stupidity, and is fixed once and then remains fixed. I’m not saying your problem is down to stupidity, I know it’s not. But you should see some of the things I’ve had to fix. Some idiot took one of those environmentally friendly cd roms which is floppy, and which CLEARLY says in big type on it not to use in a macbook, and they put it in anyway. Then they gave out hell when it stopped working and wouldn’t go out. You’d think they’d realise that as the cd rom is floppy to begin with, it’s not a good idea to put it into a cd rom drive which sucks it in and spits it out as opposed to the other type!