New Laptop?

Okay Our laptop is slowly fading away after 5 years it is a Toshiba. We loved it, as it has been everywhere with us and travels all over. My husband had our first laptop and it was a Toshiba and it died last year and we had it from 2002 and went to the OEF/OIF campaign many times, and finely died.

I am not a huge fan of apple. Not a fan of Compaq and or HP. We had them as desk tops and lasted about 3.5 years each.

Any recomendations?

I've used Macs exclusively since 1986, but I recently played around with a friend's Lenovo hybrid laptop (the monitor detaches and becomes a tablet) and was quite impressed. I have no information beyond that, but you might enjoy poking around the Lenovo website before making your decision.

I've been "shopping" for several months, my laptop (and my only computer) lost it's display and I now need an external monitor.

Anyways, I used to be "old school" about brands, desktop vs laptop, etc. No longer. Seems that is this day and age, the "OEM's", or many of them, get their components, etc from the same few manufacturers, So much, if not most, of new computers are "window dressing", and branding (to me) is no longer the major factor it used to be.

You may be able to breather new life into your Toshiba by reinstalling the OS, or switching to Kinux Ubuntu.

Me.... I'm waiting for after CES to see what's trending. Newer chips, etc will bring down prices on late 2011 technology. Some major bargain deals have been out there for the taking the past few weeks/month.

rt

I would look at Toshiba, MAC or Acer. I have not heard good things about HP.

After upgrading my main machine from a laptop (Toshiba) to a desktop, I purchased a low end Acer to use as a "travel laptop." 9 months later, it works very well.

I haven't used my laptop since I got an iPad.

what are you going to do with it? How much power do you need? Do you want computing power or battery life?

My wife has a netbook she uses to shop and Google. She complains it is slow. The battery is dieing. Her priorities are battery life and size.

I have a $1300 Dell laptop from work. It was great when new. A year later no so much. The fan is dieing on it.

Go to a site like https://www.deals2buy.com/ and see what deals they have. They have a 14" HP for $454. That might be what you need. I'd rather spend $450 today and replace it in two years then spend $1000 and replace it 4 years.

HP is having a sale today:

https://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/store_access.do;HHOJSID=L9JyPLMQFGdp21WCCvLNPThwH2nJ1GBDR22rpSXTpqyCKDDQ3mH5!-274328824?template_type=computer_store&landing=notebooks&a1=Offers+and+new+products&v1=Top+deals&jumpid=in_R329_prodexp/hhoslp/psg_ipg/red_tag_sale_2011/category_tiles/1/RTS_2011_category1_CTO_NB

Tigerdirect always has a good variety:

https://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/guidedSearch.asp?CatId=17&cm_sp=Masthead-_-Computers-_-Spot%2002

Hey thanks so far everyone, we cannot re load OS due to well everything is slowly going. Our fan sounds like it is going to launch and fly the laptop soon, the keyboard gets reallly hot and it always if on a airflow, the ports to attach things work 25 % of the time and wont charge anythng and the mouse now works 75 % of the time.LOL.

We use for schoolwork, pictures, movies and so on. We like fast, good battery and multiple of things. I used to do alot of writing and was working on a book at one time.

Yes, and I have worked as an onsite computer repair specialists off and on for the last ten years.

I used to sware by Sony VAIO, but their customer service has really tanked these last few years.

I now recommend ASUS. In the service biz it's the laptops you never see that are the best. I have never serviced a ASUS, despite having several clients that own them. I also own one.

It used to be IBM that were top of the heap, since they sold out to LENOVO they aren't there anymore.

~FK