Pretty much everything has been said already.... but just to confirm from experience too...
I'm a huge AMD fan, but really... for laptops definitely go with Intel.
Toshiba's are good, however Thinkpads are way better in any possible way, awesome durability.
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
As for HP, I have had several HP PCs and a budget HP laptop, although I haven't used that laptop that much, I never realy had any problems with it. But as Albert said, there are horror stories for each brand though. (and quite frankly, I often tend to believe that a big factor/culprint in those horror stories is actually the person using the laptop).
Albert is correct in saying that these days laptops are made to be budget friendly instead of long-lasting. But my experience is also that these days there are no realy "bad" bad brands anymore either. Ok, there are some top quality brands, true, but you pay for it too in that case. But in the budget friendly category, it usually is all very similar quality stuff though.
Well that's interesting, lot of people I know from school and work that use an HP, believe me ALL of them have had problems with their HPs at least once, from optical disc reader to hard drive, motherboard and PSU problems. They do break a lot.
This study is a bit old (Apr 2010)... [
Study Reliability Study] ...however the results aren't that bad and I could say they kinda match the experiences I had... except for Lenovo which I differ a lot, but oh well. Kinda gives you an idea.
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