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JoJaBuckeye

JoJaBuckeye

First we take Michigan--then the whole world!
Gotta buy the wifey a laptop this weekend. Any suggestions?

Min reqs are 1 gig ram, wireless, cd-r/dvd-r, stylus pen, MS office suite

Not sure about OS...I think they're shipping Vista now or are at least offering free upgrades to it.

Interested in customer service, battery life, etc.

Toshiba and Gateway are frontrunners, but I have no opposition to Dell and wonder what the rest of you think.

Also need info on the stylus pen as I've never used or bought that functionality before. Does the laptop have to be designed for that, or do you just load some software and pick out a pen?

For those of you using the flex notebook, with the twist-around monitor, is that a big plus? Any downside?

Thanks gang.
 
All the people I know who just bought a new laptop are getting a $1000
Toshiba! Let me just go get the model number. But Circuit City and Best Buy both have it.
Don't know about the stylus pen? Take a look at Toshibadirect.com for info.

Toshiba Satellite 15.4" Widescreen Notebook PC (A135-S4467)
•Intel Core 2 Duo T5200
•160GB hard drive
•Burns DVDs and CDs
•1GB of DDR2 memory
•Built-in 802.11agb wireless
•Windows Vista Home Premium


$849.99

after $50.00 savings & $100.00 rebates

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Taosman;782087; said:
All the people I know who just bought a new laptop are getting a $1000
Toshiba! Let me just go get the model number. But Circuit City and Best Buy both have it.
Don't know about the stylus pen?

Toshiba Satellite 15.4" Widescreen Notebook PC (A135-S4467)
?Intel Core 2 Duo T5200
?160GB hard drive
?Burns DVDs and CDs
?1GB of DDR2 memory
?Built-in 802.11agb wireless
?Windows Vista Home Premium


$849.99

after $50.00 savings & $100.00 rebates

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That looks pretty sweet.
 
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I can speak for Dell laptops... they are heavy... they run VERY hot.... I am not content with their overall value... and they are not problem free... I would rate them somewhere between crap and middle of the road...

From 2002-2006 I could speak for IBM... they too were not a value proposition... but mainly because they are relatively expensive.. however, I deployed over 10,000 of them to J&J sales forces.. and not many problems for the number we deployed... they tended to not fare well when a pharma sales rep would drive off with the laptop sitting on the trunk...:biggrin:

Can't speak for Lenovo's today...

I've always been curious about how Sony, Compaq, Toshiba and the other laptops are doing... so I'll be watching this thread too... since I'll need to make a couple laptop decisions this year...

PS Thump was VERY adamant in telling me to stay far away from ACER...
 
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iambrutus;782112; said:
IBM Lenovo Tablet. We have a few of them here at the office and they are pretty cool - X60 tablet is the latest and greatest, and most $$$.
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Last year my company switched from Dell's to Lenovo T60's and they are light years better, although around $2000 a pop. For my own home use I wouldn't spend more than a grand on a laptop.
 
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Plus if you're buying it for your wife, I really dont think you need to be spending $1500 on it.[/quote]

BM is obviously, not married! :slappy:
The worse thing a married man can do is not get exactly what your wife wants! You'll NEVER HEAR the END of it! :tongue2:
Spend the extra money to get exactly what she asked for!
 
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BrutusMaximus;782133; said:
BMax is obviously not married becuase he is smart and knows how to scheme.

She doesnt need to KNOW how much it cost :biggrin:
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If your married she will find out! Take it to the bank!
Don't say I didn't warn ya! :biggrin:


ps We know BM is smart! But he is not married. :wink2:
 
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Taosman;782087; said:
All the people I know who just bought a new laptop are getting a $1000
Toshiba! Let me just go get the model number. But Circuit City and Best Buy both have it.
Don't know about the stylus pen? Take a look at Toshibadirect.com for info.

Toshiba Satellite 15.4" Widescreen Notebook PC (A135-S4467)
?Intel Core 2 Duo T5200
?160GB hard drive
?Burns DVDs and CDs
?1GB of DDR2 memory
?Built-in 802.11agb wireless
?Windows Vista Home Premium


$849.99

after $50.00 savings & $100.00 rebates

Free: Printer & Router after rebates - Click Here
Click to expand...
My secretary just bought this laptop from Best Buy last weekend.
 
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I am with IAB with the Lenovo ThinkPad's. They are very nice, we have deployed a few around our office. When you say stylus, unless there is something else I am not thinking of, the only way I know that you can use a stylus is with a Tablet notebook. Which means you run the tablet edition of Windows.
 
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I have owned a Sony, Toshiba and a couple dell laptops. The Sony had the prettiest display but was too heavy and got really hot on my lap, the Toshiba was a bitch to get repaired when the screen broke on it, and the Dell was almost as heavy as the Sony with a worst battery life.

Now for the Upsides.

The Sony laptop had the least overall issues, just about everything worked with it and that was nice. The display was beautiful but the unit itself was pretty big.

Toshiba, It was my first laptop and made it from site to site for a long time before I broke the screen, pretty durable laptop.

Dell, now my dell laptops I have owned (2) have been great for one reason, the support, I do a lot of going from site to site to set up various phone and data services, so my laptops get a lot of work. This means they get beat up and dell has even had guys come out to my remote locations to get the laptop fixed or at least a temporary one I could use for a configuration.

Overall, I recommend Dell.
 
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