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.
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SuziQ - Sep 28, 2011 10:35:07 am PDT #17953 of 25501
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Beverly - Sep 28, 2011 11:07:56 am PDT #17954 of 25501
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
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.
NoiseDesign - Sep 28, 2011 12:41:43 pm PDT #17955 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
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 Mechanically they are great, they are just way out of date now.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.
Typo Boy - Sep 28, 2011 12:48:42 pm PDT #17956 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Not under a virtual window or on a seperate partition but as the sole or main OS?
NoiseDesign - Sep 28, 2011 12:55:33 pm PDT #17957 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
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.
omnis_audis - Sep 28, 2011 1:13:59 pm PDT #17958 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Poor thing feels like a twin separated at birth.
Polter-Cow - Sep 28, 2011 1:21:31 pm PDT #17959 of 25501
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I found the Lenovo IdeaPad I want in the nice gunmetal grey on Amazon (via Circuit City, who I guess has gone online-only now), so I'm going to finally get around to dumping my bag of change into Coinstar and see how big of an Amazon gift certificate I can get out of it. I am looking forward to the RapidBoot and OneKey Theatre business, and I hope I wasn't imagining the fact that I ended up liking the keyboard and numpad after a few minutes of thinking they were cramped. I don't know, I would probably like the Toshiba Satellite too.
Maybe it's not the right decision, but it's not the wrong decision!
§ ita § - Sep 28, 2011 2:30:20 pm PDT #17960 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Grr. Yahoo has finally released an official Flickr app, and it's not compatible with my tablet. Yeah, because organising and uploading pics from my phone is so much more practical.
megan walker - Sep 28, 2011 8:21:09 pm PDT #17961 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I'm on my 4th Toshiba laptop. Except for the last one, which died just before its 5th anniversary, I had them all for 5+ years. I don't know how Toshiba service is because I've never had to contact them.
Gudanov - Sep 29, 2011 6:37:03 am PDT #17962 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
I have a Lenovo ThinkPad I'm liking so far. I customized it to make sure it had one 4GB SODIMM instead of 2 2GB ones to ease upgrading to 8GB. I also spent $50 more to get the largest battery which gives me about 9 hours of use the way I use it with mostly Word Processing and Internet use.
Anyhow, it might be worth taking a look at buying from Lenovo directly if you are wanting to get a Lenovo. I found the price competitive, they had free shipping, and I could make those little customizations.