The best?

nieves · Mar 17, 2003, 06:10 AM

Most reliabile, feature packed, advanced tech notebook? More, which company makes the best notebooks? I have in mind IBM, Toshiba, Dell and Sony. But maybe you have other ideas. My only experience is with Thinkpads, but some of my friends have great things to say about Toshiba or Sony. What do you think?

Dom · Mar 17, 2003, 07:01 AM

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Originally posted by nieves
Most reliabile, feature packed, advanced tech notebook? More, which company makes the best notebooks? I have in mind IBM, Toshiba, Dell and Sony. But maybe you have other ideas. My only experience is with Thinkpads, but some of my friends have great things to say about Toshiba or Sony. What do you think?

Tough question. Dell and Toshiba both make great notebooks, as well as Alienware.

Toshiba invented the notebook I believe, but I'd go with Dell.

nieves · Mar 17, 2003, 07:28 AM

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Originally posted by Dom
Tough question. Dell and Toshiba both make great notebooks, as well as Alienware.

Toshiba invented the notebook I believe, but I'd go with Dell.

Alienware? What's that? Never heard of...

ToshiroOC · Mar 17, 2003, 07:30 AM

Alienware

nieves · Mar 17, 2003, 07:50 AM

" Free Alienware® T-Shirt - Black"

Nice! This really turns the tables in their favour...

Now it's time for serious me to surface. Looks impressive and the specs are nice. Thanks! A bit thick, but it's a gaming laptop.... although I've seen Thinkpads with Radeon 9000 which are half the size....

ToshiroOC · Mar 17, 2003, 08:00 AM

Two things to watch out for - some laptops use desktop P4s, meaning they just suck batteries dry in no time. Make sure it is either specified to have a P4-M and comes with a battery, since a few of the first gen P4 laptops required monstrous separately-sold batteries. The more reasonable powerful laptops use the much cheaper desktop chips... also, make sure the video card for the laptop does not share memory with the system - thats almost a guarantee for a crippled video subsystem. What exactly do you need such a powerful laptop for? Video editing? Gaming?

nieves · Mar 17, 2003, 08:29 AM

I don't plan to buy one right now. I'm just trying to assess the various companies and their notebook models. This follows a fairly heated conversation with a friend of mine who trashed IBM and Dell in what regards performance and prices for notebooks. I felt compelled to disagree, mainly because I work for one of the companies mentioned above but the SOB was very convincing and I didn't put much of a fight....

I'm thinking "what's the most poverful notebook?". Which company is the most advanced in this field.... That would really help me with wining the argument

Plus, I might buy one in the future, so I need insight.

eger · Apr 7, 2003, 10:11 PM

check out www.sagernotebook.com

i your looking for a beast of a laptop, these are crazy machines. just picked up my 8887 and am very happy with it (and yes, it is a large BEAST):

16.1" UXGA LCD
3.06 P4 HT
1024MB DDR
128MB Radeon 9000
TV Tuner, Internal Wireless, The works.

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Apr 7, 2003, 10:18 PM

I own a new Aleinware laptop and man this thing is a beast...i take it LANs and this think nice man of couse i got a hell discount on it

but if you looking for gaming alienware is the way to go.

eger · Apr 7, 2003, 10:24 PM

and actually... the sager 56xx line are the exact same laptop as the alienwares. if you think alienware has got some power, check out the sager 8xxx line. =)

Dave123 · May 1, 2003, 07:58 PM

I would of gotten a sager if only I knew about it sooner.The 128mb video ram would of rocked.Oh well my next computer is gonna be a sager.Check out this forum if your gonna get one http://sagerforums.com/ .

FluffyChicken · May 7, 2003, 01:33 PM

I would call neither the AlienWare or Sager one's a laptop, they're Desktop replacements. and would not function like a laptop is normally used.
For me powerfull is reasonably light, good screen, nice keyboard, can be expanded/upgraded if needed and don't need to be plugged in everytime you use it more than an hour (also you don't burn you leg when it's resting on it ;-), For me the Dell's have done that so far. Of course if it's going to be used like a desktop but you want it all in one package, get the replacments (But then I'd build a small PC (like the Shuttle/Creative mini things) and ad a LCD screen..

Mind Dell produce all from the Light long lasting ones, to the desktopl Replacments now.

I cannot vouch for IBM's and If I remeber Toshiba do similar things to Dell.

quasr · Aug 7, 2004, 10:58 AM

I recently purchased an Acer Aspire 1712SMi notebook and I can't say enough good about it. It comes stock with a nice large 17" high resolution screen, P4 3.0GHz w/HT technology, 1GB of RAM, 120 GB 7200 RPM harddrive, Nvidia Geforce FX GO 5700 video card, DVD burner, 802.11b/g WLAN, 10/100 LAN, and V.92 modem. I have been using it non-stop for the past three months playing the latest, greatest, fastest games with not a single glitch. As far as tech assistance, they are there by phone 24/7. Only downside is the weight. I purchased a quality backpack and have traveled with it comfortably. I compared the specs with the lastest Alienware notebooks and this one is far ahead of the one they advertise for nearly $3,200. I paid just over $1,900. and would buy another in an instant. A little heavy but highly recommended!

swimtech · Aug 8, 2004, 02:02 PM

Dell or IBM - Dell for pure speed and the most up to date and time to market innovations (Inspiron). IBM for overall relibility and stability. They both get the latest technology from Intel and have their own R+D departments (IBM has the lead here I think, but they don't release the stuff as fast - they are conservative). IBM service is IMO the best. Dell takes good care of their laptop customers too though, and doesn't require they disassemble the laptop like they do to their customers for desktop warranty call.

A warranty that covers everything - and I mean anything (oops! I ran over it with my car...no kidding) is available in most states from either of them.

OpusP.Gladiator · Aug 9, 2004, 09:41 PM

qosimo or something like that... man this would be sweet... Cmon give me my wireless tv viewing at sbc park

lol Now instead of my little 2.5" lcd screen I could bring this laptop to the games for the instant replays! Yea I know, does it really work? who knows? hehe