What is the Best Laptop Right Now?

What laptops do you guys have?

specs, price, customizations...


[pics if possible]

So basically i have had my laptop since my 16th birthday, i will be 20 in a few short months, im looking for the best laptop with all factors included: memory, brand, operating system, ram, processor, etc....

im open to anything, but particular looking at at hp.

this is my current laptop:



-15 inch screen
-windows xp
-amd turion64 (single processor)
-160gb hardrive

yea kinda ancient i know, im looking for a serious upgrade!
all sugestions would be much appreciated!
thanks irate_smile:

 

Macbook Pro.

I used to be such an apple hater but once u really start to get to know OSX. nothing compares.

I have a need for Windows for business/work applications, and for that I run Parallels Desktop with Windows XP SP3 and it does the job more than adequately for those rare occurrences where I MUST have windows.

 

yea im a college student and most kids have the macbook pro, ive played around with it and its awesome, the only thing im concerned about is the price, and im not sure if its worth $2,000+

 

Same here, Buh again your in college and you want some to last, and i think a mac will last a good couple years for you and it will be worth its money.

 

toshibas suck ass in my eyes . i say accer is a good name brand also sony vaio is a good 1 too . but if yu got the money i say get a alienware dem things are monsters

 

I also had a similar question. I'm planning on getting an apple/mac laptop soon especially more for college use and spontaneous internet use. I was in the apple store just this past week and the notebooks they have there are pretty good. Any suggestions to this type as well?

 

with acer not necissarily.not to say that your wrong but most of there products are pretty okay but just dont buy netbooks and dont buy the acer aspire.personally im using the aspire right now and letters dont work,resolution changes by itself and at startup the screen flashes(and these things happened at first start up.

also i want to know what is a good laptop for school use and virtual dj & acid pro 7 use

 

lollll well accer nah that bad i never tried an aspire yet imma try to get my hands on 1 tho lol. try a vaio shits is fire

 

battery life suckksz tho its only 1 hr with low energy settings.....its waste and tech support does no shyt

 

speaking of fire, i need a laptop with a very good cooling system...
lets just say my laptop can reach temperatures of over 100 degrees Celsius (212 degrees Fahrenheit)
and trust me, i have the charts to prove it!

 

If you're a college student do not buy one.

What I hated about Macs back in the day were the people that bought them. Majority of them that I knew were college students who were broke as hell who had no need to spend that much on a computer for their needs, but were on mommy and daddy's dime so they dropped the coin.

Then they were snobs about it like they deserved it.

If you have a need for its superior capabilities in terms of it being the industry standard for graphics design etc... or if you're just a baller and can afford it, go ahead.

Not that you're planning on spending mom/dad's money, I'm sure you're paying for your own ish, but if funds are tight, dont buy a mac just to be e-cool... buy something in your budget, do something constructive with the rest.

Mac or PC doesn't matter, it'll be outdated in two years.

A decent PC notebook will be approx half the price of ur average macbook pro... I'd rather buy the PC and yes it'll be junk in a few years, but who cares you'll have the money that u didn't spend on a more expensive macbook pro, to buy the new current technology 2 years from now.

Otherwise stated, 2 computers for the price of one.

Granted you can get a macbook (non-pro) for cheaper, but then its specs are no where near on par with the PC's in the similar price ranges.

Again as a college student, buy a decent PC in your budget at use the hell out of it for a few years and then trade up.

i dont know how u guys are in school if you take your comp's to class, but mine went everywhere with me in college. In 2 years I definitly did need a new one just from abuse let alone the technology starting to show as outdated.

On that note talking about which brands are good, In college I followed the advice above, and I started with my first laptop in highschool which was an Compaq (same as HP) --- it did its job, then I got a Toshiba, which was a great computer that still is kicking to this day, gave it to my mother to use. Then I went back to another HP, that was also excellent.

After I got outta college, I was still somewhat against Macs and dropped about 3 grand on the top of the line Dell XPS Studio 16, it was the biggest piece of shit ever. Constant trouble. Dell finally replaced the motherboard about 4 seperate times until I gave up with it and insisted I was refunded fully.

Thats when I got my Macbook Pro... Paid close to 3g for it as well.

Looking back my HP was very solid and inexpensive.

The Toshiba was also a pretty solid machine.

I've never heard anything favorable about Gateway or Acer.

Good things have been said to me about Lenovo's which are basically IBM's.

Sony's are stupidly over priced and if you're gonna go that route may as well just hit the Macbook Pro.

All in all, I'd suggest HP, Toshiba, or Lenovo.

At the end of the day what you're buying in a brand is customer service when it comes to PC, many of them share the same internal components just rebranded. You want a computer that is backed with a decent warranty and free replacement parts when shit hits the fan.

HP being the cheapest, I'd just take my happy ass to Best Buy, pick up a decent HP in my price range with the specs/weight/battery life that works for me, and pick up their Geek Squad service and then call it a day.

Probably end up 2/3 the price of a comparably spec'd out Macbook Pro, with a 3 year warranty everything covered vs the 1 year standard on the macbook pro.

Enjoy college, beat the hell out of it when ur out, step up to baller status.

 

im def. gettin an hp laptop no doubt, but im still deciding, i wanna know if the i7 is really that necessary?

 

i tink hp is d best here d link check it out bro


http://www.shopping.hp.com/laptop