Buying a Laptop

Ok i was planning to buy a Laptop for myself .....

Any reviews on a Dell laptops .... How is their performance in general ?

And one thing i know that a centrine 1.7 GHz is almost equivalent to a pentium 4 3 GHZ .... But what is Intel® Pentium® M Processor 740 (Processor speed 1.73GHz) equivalent to in terms to Pentium 4 speed?
Because in Dell i am getting all Intel® Pentium® M Processor 740 so i am a bit sure about their actual speed.

 

There's a good discussion here:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=22387

 

Dell? Have you considered Toshiba laptops?

I've used Compaq, Acer and Toshiba in my office ( but not Dell's) and I can only sing praises for my Toshiba. Thumbs down for the other two. Really thumbs down ..

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Thanks for that link Rob really helpful....
Also i will have a look at toshiba

 

I have used this site a lot, has some very good reviews

http://www.notebookreview.com/

 

You couldnt GIVE me a dell laptop - Ive had 3 - never never again

 

I have done LOTS of research to pick my laptop. I've visited notebookreview, cnet, pcworld, pcmagazine, and many others, and 99% of the reviews I've read about Dell computers say that they are the best, that's why I'm getting a 700m Inspiron now.

Why don't you like them?

 

I've had three Dell Latitudes. Never had a problem w/ any of them.

 

I've had three Dell laptops since 1999, when I gave up the desktop for good. First one, the hard drive went bad after two weeks. Dell overnighted a new one to me with pre-paid package to send the old hd back. No issue for me, the support worked well. Second one never had a problem. I donated it to my Church for a youth group in Brazil and bought this one.

 

I am planning to buy a laptop by next year as well.

This discussion will be of great help.

 

Most people I know have had nothing but good luck with their Dell notebooks.

Myself, I just replaced my four year-old Sony SR7K with a 14" iBook, and am very happy.

 

Only bad thing about Dell is that they suck at delivery... 48 hours to process your order, 5 days to send in your order, and then 3-4 weeks to get the item to you.

If I'm lucky I will be getting it by November

 

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1576827&Sku=G153-1098

Just bought one of these literally a few seconds ago. They are refurbs, and in many ways not as good as my current notebook but for the price fuxx it. I've bought refurbed notebooks before from Tiger and was happy with them before, at least their keys didn't break off like my current notebook does

 

Have you heard of a brand named Sager? Do a google on it, pretty impressive, always offers the best hardware components at any given time.

 

I do laptop business for many years. I only use IBM laptop.
We have a huge bad laptops in our wherehouse. They are dell, toshiba, compaq, hp.... But no IBM.

 

#1 starting to look like spam
#2 had an IBM, actually 2 of them and would not recommend them to my worst enemy

 

well i am using Toshiba Laptop for over a year and really satisfied with my purchase.

 

I've had dell, toshiba,and I'm using an HP now.

I liked them all and log massive time on my laptop. I use a laptop about 98% of the time.

I like HP Pavilion the best just because it seems a lot more rugged than the Toshiba. The Dell was pretty solid, too, but I had an issue with the screen at the end.

 

I have also gone in for a Toshiba finally .... it has been almost 20 days i am using it and no complains what so ever ... i am just loving it

 

My laptop is an HP Pavilion...