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Reliable Notebook Laptop...
NaRu:
Lenovo is awesome.
fohfoh:
--- Quote from: NaRu on February 03, 2010, 12:36:52 AM ---Lenovo is awesome.
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I know, right? They had that one model one year they advertised that you could pour a cup of coffee on the keyboard and the liquid would drain harmlessly out the bottom. Though even if I had it, I'd never do that to my laptop.
Micharus:
--- Quote from: NaRu on February 03, 2010, 12:36:52 AM ---Lenovo is awesome.
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Lenovo = IBM. Seriously.
Work uses Lenovo desktops and towers, good machines.
I can't see that a Lenovo laptop would be any worse.
As far as buying a laptop goes, virtually any big name brand one will do the job, just keep in mind the specs you want and remember that no matter which one you end up with, that you need to keep the airflow happening or it will overheat and go *poof* (more likely it will auto shut down to save itself.)
iindigo:
Don't bother with HP or any of its daughter companies. For whatever reason, their engineers can't figure out something as elementary as airflow. Dell and most other big names fail at it as well. The only exceptions that I personally know of are Toshiba, Lenovo, Sony, and Apple. Sony can be hit or miss.
For less-known companies, Acer has nice offerings.
And whatever you do, don't be tempted by the lower prices of a netbook. You get what you pay for: a slow machine with a tiny-ass screen and keyboard/trackpad that will frustrate the living hell out of you. While I have never owned one, I've worked on a few belonging to friends, and I can honestly say that after two days I'd just throw the thing out the window.
fohfoh:
--- Quote from: iindigo on February 03, 2010, 02:48:52 AM ---Don't bother with HP or any of its daughter companies. For whatever reason, their engineers can't figure out something as elementary as airflow. Dell and most other big names fail at it as well. The only exceptions that I personally know of are Toshiba, Lenovo, Sony, and Apple. Sony can be hit or miss.
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Technically Apple sits on that shelf for having poor flow. But only for last gen. When there were issues with the NVidia 8200/8400, HP and Dell had the most issues, but Apple was in "3rd place". It probably was only like 10-15% in comparison to HP and Dells 60%+ but still it was the highest margin in comparison to the others based on the reports.
It was something like OTHERS 3 reports < Apple 4-5 reports < HP/Dell 20 reports each
Supposedly the new gen of macbooks (I hate that black and silver design) aren't bad. But the older model had some issues with airflow. (Technically in the same time frame as when people began to figure out the issues with airflow for laptop cases from different companies)
I will add though... Apple wasn't as big of a douche as HP and Dell to initially address the issue.
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