What's a good laptop brand?

[bazookajoe]

Originally Posted by slimboli

'4 Reasons I'll Never Own a Mac' by Rob Cheng
September 08, 2011 by chengrob in The Pit Blog...

How does this help the op or answer his question?

[T.G]

Originally Posted by bazookajoe

How does this help the op or answer his question?

The way I read slim's post is that he's providing some reasons to not buy Apple notebooks.

No different than pasting an article or report about any other brand really.

[Totemic]

Originally Posted by bazookajoe

How does this help the op or answer his question?

The blog touched on four points, irrespective of whether it's valid or not:

1. cost.
2. productivity.
3. standards.
4. product longevity.

All are very valid criteria for making a decision on what to buy. You can certainly argue that the blog's points are wrong (although, cost and longevity is kind of hard to argue against since those are fairly objective factors).

Leaving that aside, I also recommend Lenovos. My wife has a T410, I plan on replacing my ancient Toshiba with a Lenovo T series in the coming months (although, I'm really curious as to how Intel handle their Ivy Bridge systems so may hold off just a bit longer) and just about everyone in the office is running around with the ThinkPad of one type or another.

However, for Lenovos, I would recommend against getting the IdeaPads. Those are their lower end consumer lines and generally not as well built as the ThinkPad counterparts. You end up paying about 10 to 15% more (but still WAY less than a comparable MacBook), but in my opinion, it's worth it.

BTW, you might take a look at http://outlet.lenovo.com. If your timing is good, you can end up with some very good deals from the outlet store. They have listings for new, redist, refurb and scratch/dent. The first two conditions are essentially new (redist is just systems which were ordered but were never opened or powered up). And from my own experience, the refurbs are excellent (most seem to have just been opened and powered up).

The T420's listed there are very tempting (I perfer the 14" laptops over the 15" since I need mobility--but they also have T520's listed there too).

[bazookajoe]

Originally Posted by T.G

The way I read slim's post is that he's providing some reasons to not buy Apple notebooks.

No different than pasting an article or report about any other brand really.

I'm sure the op knows how to research the pros and cons of pc and mac laptops online. I'd guess the intent of the thread was to get some feedback from members from their actual experience.

Originally Posted by Totemic

The blog touched on four points, irrespective of whether it's valid or not...

Again, this information is freely available online.

slimboli was merely quoting some irrelevant opinion rather than giving a personal recommendation from actual experience—a fairly common occurrence whenever an apple product is mentioned but still tiresome imo...

[bobarian]

Originally Posted by bazookajoe

I'm sure the op knows how to research the pros and cons of pc and mac laptops online. I'd guess the intent of the thread was to get some feedback from members from their actual experience.

The OP asked for suggestions, I see nothing about requesting those suggestions be based solely upon personal experience.

Again, this information is freely available online.


slimboli was merely quoting some irrelevant opinion rather than giving a personal recommendation from actual experience—a fairly common occurrence whenever an apple product is mentioned but still tiresome imo...

How is slimboli's opinion any more irrelevant than your contributions to this thread?

As totemic summarized the choice comes down to a few basic things.

1. cost.
2. productivity.
3. standards.
4. product longevity.

What if the OP wants to play games? Perhaps the new Elder Scrolls? A Mac would make a nice paperweight in this case.

[shilala]

Originally Posted by bobarian

What if the OP wants to play games? Perhaps the new Elder Scrolls? A Mac would make a nice paperweight in this case.

I doubt he was doing a whole lot of fragging on a Dell Mini, Bob.

[T.G]

Originally Posted by bazookajoe

I'm sure the op knows how to research the pros and cons of pc and mac laptops online. I'd guess the intent of the thread was to get some feedback from members from their actual experience.



Again, this information is freely available online.

slimboli was merely quoting some irrelevant opinion rather than giving a personal recommendation from actual experience—a fairly common occurrence whenever an apple product is mentioned but still tiresome imo...

There is another possibility, and that is that maybe Slim happens to share those same opinions and experiences and quoted the passage for personal reasons rather than writing them out in his own words.

Granted, if such is the situation, then it really should have been prefaced with an explanation of why it was pasted.