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Oh, there's a wrong choice, all right. And that wrong choice is HP. There's just no right choice.
Ha! Well, I'm not getting an HP, after they decided to make it impossible for me to replace the power supply on my desktop.
Dude, Dell. IJS.
People have also said good things about Dell, but I haven't really been able to play with them in the store and get a feel for them.
There's just no right choice.
That's what I'm afraid of.
Or maybe all choices are right except for HP.
heh ... my office recently switched from Dell as our standard for computers to HPs. oops?
Dell support expected me to take apart a laptop as part of their support effort. I'd love to see them try that with my mother or sister. Or you know, the average laptop buyer. I refuse to buy Dells for the family anymore.
Our work computers are Dells and I've had pretty good luck with them. That said, my next home laptop will likely not be a Dell. We have a Windows store near us and I'm thinking of going there.
Oh wait, you were saying Dell is bad ? Oh, good, they're not in the running anyway!
My work Dell is great. My home Dell has been fine, but since I can customize all the features, I usually go overboard and I really don't need anything fancy.
My last three laptops were HPs, I banged the hell out of them and ran them like mushers, and I love HPs to pieces. You take the logos off all the display models in Best Buy and watch my sticky fingers reach for the HPs. H is a Toshiba fan. It's a personal preference.
I'm not saying there aren't better machines. I just *like* HPs. They feel good, they look good to me, and I can't fault their performance, other than battery life. And that has gotten better.
I've got three Toshibas that are all over 5 years old and still run just fine. Mechanically they are great, they are just way out of date now.
For customer service and build quality I end up buying Apple, even when I reformat them and install Windows for the OS. I've got 10 Mac Minis running Windows 7 at the moment.
Not under a virtual window or on a seperate partition but as the sole or main OS?
Yep, I've installed it as the main OS on many machines. I usually keep a small partition that is running MacOS, but not always, and even on those machines that have the partition many of them will spend years never getting booted into the MacOS. I a machine installed out in Florida that's a Mac running Windows 7. I don't think it's seen the MacOS since I put it in at least two years ago.