What is the Best Brand of Laptop out there?

[phuketbound]

I'm in the market for a new laptop. I've been thinking of getting a Mac, but I'm still not sure about it. I had an Acer, and since having problems with it here in Korea, no one has been able to find the chip that I need to fix it.

Does anyone use a Dell laptop?

Any other recommendations?

Are Macs worth it?

Thanks

[kingwilly]

depends...

[The Fresh Prince]

Macbook Pro. Can't beat it!

[Fondles]

How much do you want to spend ??

Dell XPS lappy's are spose to be the shizzle.

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[The Fresh Prince]

Dell XPS lappy's are spose to be the shizzle.

Cheers Snoop!

[phuketbound]

^Thanks. I was thinking of Dell because I can get an English version of Windows from the Korean Dell site. I can also order it online and have it delivered.

Macbook Pro. Can't beat it!

Can you be more specific. How is it better than other laptops? I am seriously thinking of getting a Mac, but would like to hear from satisfied Mac users.

[Attilla the Hen]

Got a friend who's got a lap-top by Alienware, a US company. He tells me it is the worlds best. Certainly wasn't cheap.

[The Fresh Prince]

Can you be more specific. How is it better than other laptops?

I use mine for graphic design and multi media so its well suited for me. I like the ease of use with system/software and I've never had a virus from not using anti-virus software. It never crashes or hangs and I got it wet once and when it dried out it worked fine.

I have had the odd issue with a couple of things, like I lost some data on an external hard drive from not ejecting it properly but I was soon able to find some software to retrieve the data.

The price is also another factor you should think about. All together I paid close to 100,000bt for mine so you've got to think, do you really need one or would a pc do the trick.

[Butterfly]

they are almost the same, depends what you want to do, but for 90% of users, there is no difference

get a cheap one, TESCO have very decent HP for less than 20,000 THB

[The Fresh Prince]

^Wow a calm and collected response after a Mac/PC question. Have you taken some kind of Valium?

[absolutely Bangkok]

Over four years ago I made the switch from Windoze machines to a Mac Powerbook G4 - the last of the series before Intel processors took over.

In these over four years i did not have a single major problem that were quite common with my former computers. Actually, having a Mac is much easier than Windoze. Setup of printers, router, whatever - with Windoze you have to go into a myriad of different commands to finally succeed. All a Mac takes are a few clicks.

But then again, Windows improved and I'm about in the market again for a new machine. It will either be a 17" Macbook Pro - or a Windows equivalent.

Why a Windows equivalent? Windows 7 will be a good system and Windows machines are quite much cheaper, even if you go for the top range.

Compatability is not an issue anymore with Mac, except maybe Google's new browser Chrome you can have about anything running on a Mac.

It's just the price that would decide. But then again, the design of those Macs is unmatched. A company creates the product from the beginning to the end, whereas with Windows you'll have to accept certain compromises.

Most probably I'll have to go for the Macbook Pro - the past experience with the G4 tells me you can hardly go wrong with a Mac.

I also have an iPod an the iPhone - all interact beautifully with each other.

The decision is yours, but why are so many people switching from Win to Mac and not the other way round?

Let me know what you'll buy.

[CliffD]

I'd go for the new Mac Wheel

[The Fresh Prince]

^"Everything is just a few hundred clicks away" is this a joke?

[The Fresh Prince]

Definitely a spoof. "It lasts a full 19min before needing to be recharged" Lol

[CliffD]

No, It's for real. JING JING

"remains to be seen whether the Mac wheel will catch on in the business world where computers are used for actual work and not just dicking around"

[Happyman]

The office that I was contracted to in Taiwan ( Kawasaki/ High Speed rail System) had 60 workstations all using Acer TravelMate 4050 laptops - no problems with any of them .
When the contract shut down they gave me the one I was using as freebie and now -5 years later - it is still in regular use and doing fine .
If I was to replace it - no question about it - another Acer !

[The Fresh Prince]

"John, who is new to the Wheel just spent 45min typing an email"

[baldrick]

Setup of printers, router, whatever - with Windoze you have to go into a myriad of different commands to finally succeed. All a Mac takes are a few clicks.

only if the hardware is "mac compatible" - which is why macs have the reputation of "just working" - no need for the software to be able to connect to anything , only those approved devices

it does not matter what OS you run , you are only as secure as the PEBKAC button puncher.

mac users are kidding themselves and spouting rubbish when they claim their macs are "more secure" - you can be owned just as easily as the next windows user.

for a windows laptop , look at Asus , Lenovo and Dell.

this laptop I have now is a Dell , over 3 years old , previous laptop for 6 years was a Dell - my Dell axim x50v handheld is 4 1/2 years old and still a daily used item in my life.

I like that I can config a dell laptop on their website to what I want rather than having to buy what is at the shop.

[Thai Pom]

I am an Acer man, great aftersales service as well should you need it ( seacon square )

[CliffD]

Having had a series of Sonys that always seemend to break after six months I now use Acer. Half the price and more reliable.

My biz partner is now addicted to his Mac air having been an Apple phobe for years.

Mac seems to have got it right in many ways, although I can't get me UK "I phone" chipped to work reliably in Thailand

I still think I'd wait till the latest Mac Air is out. It's 4 ozs lighter apparently.

[Fondles]

I am an Acer man, great aftersales service as well should you need it ( seacon square )

I too am an acer man, have had my current machine for 2 yrs, never had any issues with it, other than it blue screening on me on saturday, which wasn't really a biggie any ways i had been wanting to throw a bigger HDD in which i did and had it all happily running again a few hours later.

[baldrick]

Acer would have been in my list except they shipped machines with backdoors in them - cannot trust them again

[NickA]

Toshiba seems OK, no problems so far, reasonably cheap for the spec.

[DaffyDuck]

Setup of printers, router, whatever - with Windoze you have to go into a myriad of different commands to finally succeed. All a Mac takes are a few clicks.

only if the hardware is "mac compatible" - which is why macs have the reputation of "just working" - no need for the software to be able to connect to anything , only those approved devices

Blatantly incorrect -- that's why Mac OS X comes, built-in, with the largest amount of drivers for 3rd party hardware (i.e. regularly Windows hardware) out there, so you can just take 90% of Windows/PC hardware, and plug into the Mac, and it will 'just work'.

it does not matter what OS you run , you are only as secure as the PEBKAC button puncher.

mac users are kidding themselves and spouting rubbish when they claim their macs are "more secure" - you can be owned just as easily as the next windows user.

Then how come there is no practical evidence of Mac users getting their systems '0wned' en masse, yet there are millions of PC getting infected and 0wned every second? Sadly, it's a nice misinformation from Windows users that have never looked at a Mac, claiming that a Mac is just as insecure as a PC - when this is simply not true, and borne out by actual reality.

I like that I can config a dell laptop on their website to what I want rather than having to buy what is at the shop.

Oh, you mean, exactly just as you can with a Mac - and Apple will now ship Macs to Thailand just as easily.

[DaffyDuck]

Windows 7 will be a good system

Don't bet on that....