Laptop Advice

[Dementor]

Thinking of changing my laptop, have always had Sony previously and was thinking of the Sony VGN-FS215B.

Any info. on this or alternatives from you IT folk would be useful.

Main uses - Microsoft Office, Presentations, Video, Photos, CD/DVD, Email & Internet via wireless.

Cheers, Roy

[JPM]

All the usual suspects I guess, HP/Compaq, Toshiba, IBM, I believe Acer are pretty good now, all I would suggest is stay well away from DELL, or hell as we call them!

Sony's a good buy though to be honest

[Gizmo]

Originally posted by Dementor
Thinking of changing my laptop, have always had Sony previously and was thinking of the Sony VGN-FS215B.

Any info. on this or alternatives from you IT folk would be useful.

Main uses - Microsoft Office, Presentations, Video, Photos, CD/DVD, Email & Internet via wireless.

Cheers, Roy

Take a trip to an Apple Store, if those are your main uses a windoze box is not the best option, I use a G4 laptop and like you most of the time its office, (excel or powerpoint), presentations ( either powerpoint or keynote if i am running a lot of video in the presentation and can live without auto slide timings) finalcut pro for video editing and dvd studio pro for dvd authoring ( the G4 comes with imovie and idvd which are both fine for light use), 802.11g wireless, bluetooth are in the box. biggest plus i find is ability to run different types of video in the presentation and ease of swapping to different projectors screen sizes. plus no virus problems or spyware/adware.

[nelly]

I bought an ACER a few months back from Ebuyer on the recommendation of a friends brother who is in the "know".
Fantastic bit of kit for not much money at all.
Centrino, DVDRW, 60Gb HDD, 512Mb RAM etc. etc. for sub £500 inc. vat.
I couldn't find anything to touch it on spec for £'s and it's been faultless.
I've passed on the brand to a couple of people who have bought one since with no problems either.

[tricky]

I've used acers in the past and had no problems with them. However our prefered laptops in the office are either toshiba or apple. Typing this now on my powerbook.

tricky.

[PB]

Strongly recommend an Apple Powerbook: Fantastic piece of kit (I'm an architect running CAD, rendering & video/photo applications on a G4 Powerbook as my main work station) which now communicates effortlessly with PCs. Depending on how computer literate you are, it is also worth bearing in mind that Mac OSX (and subsequently most 3rd party software) is much more intuitive to use and understand, and OSX is very stable.

More expensive than the majority of PC laptops, and you'll need to buy the MAC version of the software you need to use, but in my opinion well, well worth the investment.

[DaveB916]

Acer take some beating for the money and reliability even adviced the 'mother in law' to buy one and you woouldn't stitch her up or risk comeback would you !?!?!?


:flame::mad:

[weeian]

Originally posted by nelly
I bought an ACER a few months back from Ebuyer on the recommendation of a friends brother who is in the "know".
Fantastic bit of kit for not much money at all.
Centrino, DVDRW, 60Gb HDD, 512Mb RAM etc. etc. for sub £500 inc. vat.
I couldn't find anything to touch it on spec for £'s and it's been faultless.
I've passed on the brand to a couple of people who have bought one since with no problems either.

Nelly you are spot on, out of all the Laptops my company sell, Sony Vaio is the Worst out of them all, The best out of them all is indeed the Acer we havnt had any back for repair out of the hundreds we sold recently, whereas we get Vaios back all the time.

/ian

[rcgbob44]

I have a viao and the Toshiba`s are built much better......................have a good lookm at them.

[Rob B]

Roy,

Typing this on my 3 year old Acer Travelmate 270. Great piece of kit.

Rgds, Rob

[Dementor]

Thanks for all the pointers everyone, looks like the Acer has it at the moment................... but then again.........

[Lee1980]

I have a sony Vaio is fine as a pc but the right hinge has broke in less than 2 years not good from sony at all, now held on with tape:lol::lol:

I bought it mail order and wasnt to happy with it when it came for build quality, my advice is to try it our for feel at a shop even if u buy mail order.:D

[clockwork orange]

I would look closely at the Apple. They're really good on graphics, and rather less trouble with the dreaded BUGS.

[Carbon749]

I bought an HP with wide screen, wireless, DVD burner, 80gb hard drive, 512meg ram, office and a load of other software.

Bought it from HP direct via e-bay, they have an online HP shop. It's a factory recon with a 1 year RTB warranty.

Cost less than £600, same model was close to a £1,000 online at PC world.

Great machine.

[GsxrAge]

we got an HP from comett online about 1 month ago for £599 don't know the specs.

[psychlist]

Does Sandra know you want to upgrade to someone more cute and cuddly to bounce on your lap :puzzled:

[Dementor]

Originally posted by psychlist
Does Sandra know you want to upgrade to someone more cute and cuddly to bounce on your lap :puzzled:

She's the desktop Paul:lol:

[PB]

So, what have you opted for?

[Dementor]

Originally posted by PB
So, what have you opted for?

Think it will be the ACER ASPIRE 1801, get a lot for the money.

[nelly]

nice choice :) just one point, from my limited knowledge, is that if youre wanting any mobility, go for a centrino rather than the P4 CPU. Battery life will be much better.

[ali]

Just bought an IBM T43. £1k for Centrino 1.8, 512Mb, CDRW, 15.1", Bluetooth (why?), fingerprint reader (more useful than you'd think!). I'd never touch anything other than IBM, but then I'm tough on lappys. My last Compaq was a steaming pile of ****e. I only bothered with a decent spec because I tend to do a bit of 3D and some image manipulation, otherwise anything made in the last four years would be fine.

Cheers,

Ali

[hipshaker]

i've been toying with the idea of picking up one of these .... looks decent spec for the cash:

http://www.technoworld.com/productdisplay.asp?ProductID=28207&source=dealtime