What is the best brand of notebooks on the market at the moment?
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do tech support nation wide and suggest Dell inspiron 9300. HPs have a lot of issues customers have found and so are the Toshiba satellites. Gateways have issues too. I have found Dell to be a very reliable company and being an owner of an inspiron 9300 have not had any issues except for the poor Toshiba DVD CD ROM that I had them replace with a Sony. Good folks there at Dell.
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The four major manufacturer's of laptops are Toshiba, IBM, Dell and HP/Compaq. They have all been manufacturing laptops for many years. All four make quality products. Toshiba and IBM (now Lenovo) tend to make the most reliable products. Both focus on the corporate marketplace, as do HP and Dell.  Any of these manufacturers would make a good choice. \n\nYou might also consider an older laptop.  Many older laptops that you find from the companies that sell refurbished laptops come from leasing companies and corporations.  Decent units can be purchased for $300 to $500.\n\nFigure out what features you want and then look at the above manufacturer's websites to see what deals they are offering.  If you don't care about battery life and your laptop will see limited use then you might even consider refurbished.  Many of these units were formerly used by corporations and are great values.\n\nYou can type "used laptops" for refurbished and "discount laptop" into google and check out the companies that appear.
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IBM doesn't make laptops anymore. However, the company that used to manufacture the laptops for IBM continues in the market (same stuff, different name) as Lenovo.\n\nOther brands I'd recommend are Toshiba and iBook (Mac). If you go to the Mac website they also offer credit and discounts I believe. They have very good quality and they are goood for at least 5 years (most of the laptops start getting trouble after 2 years).\n\nIf you want to get a little more information about the models take a look at http://www.cnet.com/ \nThey have their own and the user's reviews for most of the laptops in the market.
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i prefer buying an ibm r or z series notebooks as cheap and are encouraged with an wireless connectivity which are preferable for travelling.Online shopping is from where you can bye.
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I would have to agree that IBM is the best. I really like my t23 IBM. IBM seems to have one of the best support web pages. I recently worked on a friends Toshiba and was very much impressed with there support page and with the computer overall. So I would say Toshiba is a close second. I hate Dell they are overrated cheap crap!!! Compaq is okay but not at the top of the class either and HP has crappy support as does Compaq!!
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i personally think, every laptop brands such as dell, sony, hp, iBM, etc are very popular for us in general. and i must admit that they are at the same level of product quality. buying laptop nowaday you shoud consider to some things as: specification of the laptop, the higher the better of course, for example, proccessor, ram, VGA memory, wireless, monitor, etc.. \none more thing is about battery life, the longer the better of of course.\nand the most important thing is services after sales.\ntalking about product quality, all of them are nearly the same. but about services after sale, sony is the worst as i have observed. dell good, and toshiba is good as well\nthe last thing about laptop is price, the cheaper the better. on this regardm dell is reputation with cheap price and good service\ntherefore, consider all of factors above, you will find the best one for you
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i never had my hands on an acer notebook, but if i had to choose between an acer and a dell, i would go with the dell.\nfor example the Dell XPS M140 (with Pentium M7x0) and the Inspiron E1505 (with Intel Core Duo T2x00) are worth a look.
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My company deploys IBM (now Lenovo) notebooks for all employees. No complaints al all. I'm using myself a T42P and used before a T30 and a T22. Excellent hardware.
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Depends on what you call economical!!!\nyou can try the HP nx 6325, this notebook is a wonderful piece!! and it has a DVCD+/- RW Writer and a dual core processor!! ie the blazing fast AMD Turion 64 X2, and 512 MB of DDR2 533 MHz RAM which you can ( or possibly SHOULD) upgrade to 1 GB of DDR2 800 MHz RAM!!
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Lenovo by far, followed by some Compaqs (but not the Presarios) then I would say Toshiba Tectra's, and Acer is alittle ways farther down the list.
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it is not possible to choose the bes notebook. It is only possible to choose the Best NoteBook for Somebody or for a purpose. Each notebook has its own plus and mins. Like a high end notebook might have a short batter life or might have an erronous price, while a lower end notebook might have a erronously cheap price with great features.
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I bought this one:\n\nHP Pavilion Notebook PC (DV5030US)\nHP   DV5030US  \n• AMD Turion® 64 ML-37 \n• 100GB hard drive \n• 15.4" WXGA widescreen  • Double-layer DVD+R/RW \n• 1024MB of DDR memory \n• LightScribe technology  \n\nand is great.
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Personally, i have always like my dell and am favored toward that brand.  Mine has lasted 4 years or so, is still fast and up to date.  If you take care of it with anti-virus software and anti-spyware tools, it will last a long time.\n\nIt looks as if they are pretty close, but with the 120GB HD, I would go with the dell.  Students tend to fill up that HD pretty fast.  \n\nAlso, please use a coupon, you can always save a couple hundred dollars on a good laptop.  Dell has a coupon available until the 9th, but they do have a good turnover and publish coupons every week.  Here is the coupon and details:  http://www.24houredeals.com/dell-coupons-23-mer.html
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I've had Dell, Gateway & a Think Pad by IBM.  \n\nThey are all pretty good.  How about an Apple?  I hear rave reviews regarding the Apple.\n\nGood luck..........study hard & have FUN!\n\n:-)
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Laptop..cool , I need one too I think, I was searching for laptops " notebooks" at http://astore.amazon.com/goodmanzone-20 \nI think I have seen a couple of notebooks at lower than $700 there\nthe best part is that this store is almost in any place you think of.
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I don't know the best, but I bought a Dell XPS170 in December and so far I am very happy with it.
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i still recommend the new HP Pavilion dv2000 series (14.1" display) or dv6000 series (15.4" display). i have a good experience with it. HP has a pretty good customer service. keep in mind that these laptops only have the new ExpressCard slot. in case you need a laptop with PCMCIA (PC card) slot, you can chose a Toshiba Satellite instead (A105, P105 or M115 series). you can go directly to the manufacturer homepage and order it from there (HP offer also a customization) or have a look at Circuit City, they sell a wide variety of laptops of these two brands.\nhttp://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Notebook-Computers/sem/rpsm/catOid/-12963/N/20012961+20012963/rpem/ccd/category.do\nselect the corresponding brand on the left side (the problem with Circuit City is they don't offer laptops with dedicated graphics cards, only with integrated Intel GMA 950 or similar with shared memory).