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What would be contributors top five brands for laptops, I feel there is a lot of support for Dell are these considered the best. Any views?

TonyLisaP

Apreciar wrote: »

What would be contributors top five brands for laptops, I feel there is a lot of support for Dell are these considered the best. Any views?

In no particular order.

Toshiba
Sony
Acer
Fujitsu
HP

Dell are rubbish IMHO. I have never met anyone with one that was 100% happy.

totalsolutions

Not forgetting Asus, Panasonic, Lenovo, Vye,Shuttle, Alienware, Rock,,,

I have a problems will Dells, Next door has a couple of new ones and the screen just does not look good and bright all over, is it an LED backlight??? One does not even have a catch, just close it!!.

Apreciar

TonyLisaP wrote: »

In no particular order.

Toshiba
Sony
Acer
Fujitsu
HP

Dell are rubbish IMHO. I have never met anyone with one that was 100% happy.

I thought Asus made for Sony so would they be included. It would be good to arrive at the brand I want and then choose a model.

TonyLisaP

ASUS are good of course but you asked for five.

Riq

Dell are truely terrible, I wouldn't go anywhere near them.


Alienware 5 years ago were the best, but then they just stopped trying but kept the prmium prices and those god awful cases.

mess0804

Dell,
HP,
Toshiba,
Asus

...and the worst Acer and Fujitsu

isofa

Lots of Dell bashing! I've had several Dell laptops (mostly Latitudes), my current one is getting on a bit now 4-5 years old at least, absolutely no problem at all. It is as reliable as when it was new. A quality solid business laptop, P4 2Ghz, and still performs faster than many budget laptops around today. I tend to buy top end laptops and keep them for a long period of time.

My list of 5:

Apple
Sony (although some cheaper ones aren't so good nowadays, not the quality they once were).
Dell
Levono (formally IBM Thinkpads, better than Sony IMO)
HP

I've only personally owned Apple and Dells, but used all the others.

All my Apple and Dell laptops have been excellent. Had a HD fail in a very early Dell Inspiron (around 10 years ago), but, as yet, never had a fault on an Apple machine. (Including an 8 year old Powerbook G3, which still works perfectly today!)

cowbutt

My three:

1) Lenovo
2) Toshiba's high-end models (Tecra, Satellite Pro)
3) Apple (they don't manufacture them, but at least the designs are sound)

After that, it's all pretty much of a muchness, as the rest don't seem to manufacture their own products, or even have much say over the design. Most are just rebadged and unaltered ODM designs. Read more here: http://www.rockymtncomputer.com/Laptop.html (e.g. I have a Toshiba Satellite 3000-214 from 2002 which is actually a Compal ACL-00 with a moulded Toshiba lid plastic, and was also sold by Elonex).

unrich

Sony (got one, love it)
Apple (seen it want it)
Compaq (owned and used them) pay more get more
Toshiba (owned and used them) ditto
Asus (on prejudice alone)

Not dell (breaky), not FujitsuSiemens (breaky), not Panasonic (slow), not Acer (just because).

d123

mess0804 wrote: »

Dell,
HP,
Toshiba,
Asus

...and the worst Acer and Fujitsu

Agreed, don't know how anyone could put Acer in the top 5 (don't know why anyone would even recommend them), Acer are the biggest pile of s**t available with customer service to match.

I would add Dell and Sony to your 3 to make a top 5.