What is the best and most reasonable DELL laptop I can get?
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The company I work for has 178 computers of which 46 are Dell (12 laptops, 32 desktops, 2 servers). We stopped after 46 because we had 29 of them go back for service and these were Dell's business class computers which are better than consumer class.\n\nWe then bought 101 HP computers (6 laptops, 92 desktops, 3 servers) and have only had 3 go back for service. We also bought 31 Apple computers (iMac's when they came out with Intel processors). None of the Apple's have had any problem so far. We're sticking with Apple computers from now on.\n\nMoral of the story:  Be careful when buying a cheap Dell. It's cheap for a reason.
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Dell has lottsa good notebooks 4 good price\n\nTry the XPS or Inspirion range !
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Buy a Dell they have a better reputation.  PC's run XP, they no longer really come with MS-DOS or Windows 95/98 (which ran on top of MS-DOS) any more!
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Dell is great! I have a Dell Inspiron and i love it!!!
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dude get a dell cant beat the price good luck
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id go with a dell, dell.com has an awesome page or call them and tell them you only want to spend 1000 dollars and they'll make a notebook that will suit your needs and price target.
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Dell sells some that are pretty good.\nhttp://www.dell.com\n\nAlso, check out the old thinkpads on Ebay. I almost bought one of those because they are good machines, and go for about $250-300. \nhttp://www.ebay.com\n\nFinally, TigerDirect sells some. I've never heard any complaints about them.\nhttp://www.tigerdirect.com
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The laptop you're looking for would be extremely basic and wouldn't require much horsepower at all. \nProbably specs like the following:\n\nCPU: Pentium 4 (Celeron)(M) 2.4 Ghz/ AMD Athlon (Sempron)(Turion) 2.4 Ghz\n\nMemory: 512 Mb- 1 Gigabyte\n\nHardrive: 40 Gigs - 60 Gigs Max\n\nMost likely a wireless network card\n\nCheck out www.dell.com for some pretty good deals for what you're looking for.\nEmail me for a more detailed response.
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Try DELL brand! They're cool!
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Dell is pretty good overall, but not the best.  For general use, you can pick Dell, HP, Toshiba, Acer ... etc.  Recently, I bought a Acer 8200 for school and for general programming stuff, and a Sony SZ-120 for business and they're both are very good computers.  As to the 6400, the 6000 has received great reviews, and 6400 is so new that not too many reviews are out yet, so why don't you wait a bit longer.  What is your major?  Most laptops last about 2 to 3 years, and a bit less on the battery.  Good luck!
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for the best value/performance ratio, i suggest you try checking out aldi or lidl... i know it sounds crazy, but they actually use good quality components from well-known manufacturers such as pioneer and samsung... you don't end up spending money on a brand name.\n\ni got my laptop from lidl about 18 months ago and it was as good a spec as anything out there - and it's still up there, no problems whatsoever.\n\nit also has a three year guarantee, which dell will charge several hundred quid for...\n\notherwise,  toshiba machines are generally regarded as being very reliable. \n\nof course, if you're not doing a lot of gaming, pretty much any laptop will do the trick nowadays. i would advise against a laptop with shared graphics memory however...\n\ntry and get one that has its own dedicated graphics card and video memory...
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i. maximum value for money > dell\nii. most freely configurable / customizable notebooks > dell\niii. most user friendly website > dell\n\nanother tip, their xps line is the premium range & comes in 3 models  12.1", 17" & 20"., the 12.1" xps m1210 being my personal favorite\nhttp://www.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/notebooks?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs\n\n>> happy computing \nor rather dell'ing !
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From my experience, I feel that Dell laptops are excellent in dependability and style. Toshiba is also close behind, though I really dislike the Thinkpads due to design, lack of service, and the overall layout. Gateway does not offer great laptops as it has combined with eMachines... so yea, its out of the running.\n\nI would suggest avoiding Tablet PCs mainly for the fact that they are just out a little bit ago. Might want to give Microsoft a little time to sort out their bugs. I bought one from Bestbuy two monthes ago and returned it two weeks ago because I felt it was rather useless, there is not much you can do with the tablet that cant be done with a mouse. Plus the idea of touching a screen so many times and having to clean it later on does not appeal to me. If you need to draw notes, I would stay with photoshop or paint, as working with a tablet pc is not as easy as you think, and no, the fold-up processes is not as easy as it looks in those comercials. As well, these tablet pcs usually end up costing a good 500 dollars more than one of the same performance without it. \n\nThe bottom line for your usage in my opinion would be the Dell Inspiron Notebook 9400 (after you customize it, its probably going to end up around $1500-$1600 US). It is not that high tech, though that is not needed unless you intend to really crank up gaming, plus it will save you a couple hundred bucks. As well, it comes with a nice silver design and 17" screen, and everything you basically need for university. You can read more about it at the site I listed below.
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Dell laptops are affordable.  You can also search for refurbished laptops which is way lot more cheaper.  The only problem of refurbish is that there might be some defetcs on the product like a small red dot on the LCD screen. Sometimes a damaged hardware, but a refurbished product is returned to the company for repair, after that it will be good as brand new but the price will be cheaper.\n\nI suggest you buy the specs you needed for your work since cheaper latops may sometimes never satisfy your needs. That way you might end up buying another, which will cost you twice as much. So, buy a much hi-tech laptop and take GOOD CARE of it!
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go to DELL.com, they have great prices on desk tops and laptops.  Not worth buying one second hand.
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dell inspiron E1505.\nits the best!!
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Go to their website, http://www.dell.com, and\nlook under laptops.  They have their entry\nlevel laptop for $449.  \n\nIf you wait for a special (ie. just before school\ngraduation time or Christmas), you could quite\npossibly get a nicer one for the same price.