Buying a laptop

Rik · Apr 30, 2008, 20:10:57

You left out Meridian, Gary.

Gary · Apr 30, 2008, 20:12:19

Quote from: Rik on Apr 30, 2008, 20:10:57
You left out Meridian, Gary.

damn

Sebby · Apr 30, 2008, 20:25:23

It's very difficult to find quality products these days. It's often a case of picking the best of a fairly average bunch.

Rik · Apr 30, 2008, 20:30:26

Especially if you try to avoid the 'made in China' label.

jackmalanak · Apr 30, 2008, 20:57:57

Bought one of these for the daughter last year.

Lenovo 3000 N200

You may not know the firm but they are a huge Chinese concern who bought the Notebook part of IBM a while back. The machines are still very well built and well worth a look at.
This model has everything you're looking for but I added an extra 1GB of memory and it's a very capable machine indeed.

Sebby · Apr 30, 2008, 21:40:41

I've heard good things about Lenovo, though I've never actually seen one in the flesh.

Dangerjunkie · May 01, 2008, 00:29:46

I've seen some of the more expensive Lenovos at my customers and they seem every bit as well engineered and good as the IBM Thinkpads were. However I have heard from a couple of people that the cheap ones are nowhere near as good and have heard comments that they are best avoided.

To be fair I have never use done of the cheap ones so I'm not speaking from experience.

Cheers,
Paul.

kinmel · May 04, 2008, 21:05:19

Well we have a result.

Having shown the brother-in-law what spec laptop he gets for his money, he now accepts that a desktop, built by me, gives far more bang per buck.

thanks for all your advice.

Simon · May 04, 2008, 21:14:21

Good luck, Alan, and let me know if you need any help wrecking the motherboard!

kinmel · May 04, 2008, 21:48:07

Quote from: Simon on May 04, 2008, 21:14:21
Good luck, Alan, and let me know if you need any help wrecking the motherboard!

things are never so bad that they can't get worse !

Rik · May 05, 2008, 10:04:26

I take it you've not met my mother-in-law, Alan?