Buying a new laptop

us1415 · January 5, 2015, 8:39pm

Re: Buying a new laptop

I had a lenovo and it was a beast. I dropped some tea on the keyboard and usb port and I though the computer was toast. Took it to Fry’s and after a day (they were running behind) it was turned on and working. Apparently it had a fuse that shut down power to stop any further damage to the computer. Compare that to the hp dv line where my touch buttons would disappear after 2 hours (30 minutes no volume on touch buttons).

Unless things are changing, I thought that Lenovo basically took IBM’s products and started selling the under its name with minimal changes. I recommend lenovos and my brother bought a thinkpad and aside from the small trackpad, it has been rock solid for him.

If indian tech support is a problem, then stay away from DELL. They actually harass you if you accidentally call their online sales people. They were so clueless that they were pricing SSD and HDD in the price and I was like you don’t even have a two bay system so how would this work? Dell was also the only laptop where the time would reset after each shut down, so I am thinking that the small battery that they have for this in the computer was dead.

Alienware is another story by itself but they are expensive.

Just an FYI: Dell has a 2 bay system. I have one from work where I have 2 hard drives installed into my system. I have had this system for 3 years and never had a single issue.