Thread: new laptop recommendations

Originally Posted by DaffyDuck

Originally Posted by Blake7

I plan to buy a new laptop and I was wondering if anyone had any good advice.
I am looking for something small and lightweight and with good battery life. An external DVD drive would be ok.
I have a Dell Latitude D430 which has been fine but I fancy trying something new.
Any ideas?

In ascending order:

- DELL : cheap, but usually solid. Abandon all hope if you need service.

- MacBook : solid construction, good performance, especially now that the low-end model is a unibody design as well, yet practically indestructible with the polycarbonate top case design. Several lucky Thai girls I know swear by it

- MacBook Pro 13" : ditto, except in all-aluminium unibody design, and better video GPU.

Depending where you can buy them, the best deal is from the Apple Online store's refurbished equipment section; Service, sadly, is hit or miss in Thailand, as the regional Thai Apple reps do not seem to care as much about policing their service providers (the service centres in Siam Discovery and other parts of Bangkok seem particularly bad, sadly).

Big pile of bullshit.

Unless you have money to blow, Macbook Pro could be an option, but frankly, you can do MUCH better for 40,000 baht.