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Dell:
Precision - Very powerful desktop replacements - great warranty, ridiculously expensive - Usually overpriced or overkill

Latitude - Good Laptops - Great warranty! Highly recommended for any Business environment - Sometimes expensive.

Vostro  - Lower end Business Machines - Better Priced - still durable - Usually 1 Year warranty.

XPS - The nicer looking dell machines, Some are better than others...

Inspiron - YMMV Every model is different

(Plain) Insprion Series - Dells lowest end laptop
(R) Insprion Series - Perfect Home use, dependable, decent build quality, recommended
(Z) Insprion Series - A little slimmer than the R series, Some are Ultrabooks (Very often don't include Optical Drives)

HP:

Spectre - Top of the line personal (dragonfly is the top of the line for business) - lightest laptops, and beautiful!

Pavilion - YMMV (Some better than others)

Probook - Stable durable business systems - Usually a little on the heavy side.

Elitebook - Business Higher end systems, usually pretty expensive

ENVY - Used to be the HP sleek and nicer systems, they pretty much replaced most of the standard pavilions now and call them either ENVY or sleekbooks

Sleekbook - like it sounds slimmer line of laptops

Lenovo:

Thinkpad Series - Very Dependable Business Machine, Expensive (Not Pretty but Durable)

IdeaPad Series -

S Series
U Series - Usually the slimmer line Ultrabooks, Doesn't always include DVD Drive
Y Series - Nice machines with good specs and features (Cool Backlit Keyboards)
Z Series - Step up from the G Series, all around decent build, priced nicely, great home use laptop
G Series - Lower end

Samsung:

Series 3
Series 5
Series 7
Series 9 - The nicest, sleekest looking laptops I've seen in a long time - Can pass for a Macbook!!


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A great post by caliheat:
I believe that there are many factors when deciding what laptop to purchase.
1) What is your intended use and necessary features. e.g. light use vs. heavy use & optical drive, computer speed etc.
2) As mentioned several times in this thread, RAM itself is very easy to upgrade after you purchase.
3) Brand - IMHO this is pretty important as well - which do your prefer vs. which brand do people recommend.
4) Price - you should decide a price range that best suits your needs.
5) Operating System - Many people like myself prefer Windows 7 vs. 8.1, so this would be another consideration.
6) Warranty - does it include 1 year or more, cost for extending warranty.
7) Detailed Specs:
  Processor  - model and speed i3, i5, & i7 2.0 Ghz, 3.0 Ghz etc.
  RAM - This IMHO should be minimum 8GB, especially if running 8.1, however can be added easily.
  Hard Drive - SATA vs. SSD, the latter being much faster. SATA itself offers 5400 RPM vs. 7200 RPM again, the latter being faster.
  Screen Size - this is a personal preference as you can always attach a larger screen in an office setting.
  Battery & Weight - overall laptop weight preference & battery life.
  Graphics - Integrated graphics vs. dedicated graphics, e.g. Intel 4400 vs. Nvidia GTX etc.

In summary, you have to decide what are you priorities, what can be upgraded and what you are flexible on.



Excellent article about the differences between the Intel processor suffixes.

Excellent "Laptop Buying Guide" by @dailykasha, written for Black Friday 2021, updated for holidays 2023

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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #2160 on: December 18, 2012, 07:24:06 PM »
FINALLY!!!

After weeks of searching, I'm in for 1 Dell 15z. Thanks!

No fingerprint reader, though*... :'( ;)

Is it my imagination, or is there no Amex OPEN Savings for Dell?

* As for those who have been wondering why I wanted a fingerprint reader so badly, my browsing patterns happen to involve lots of entering username/passwords. A fingerprint reader would've made life infinitely easier. Oh well...

You can use a utility like roboform - Its great for Username/password I wouldn't survive without it

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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #2161 on: December 18, 2012, 07:24:39 PM »
You can use a utility like roboform - Its great for Username/password I wouldn't survive without it

Thanks. :)

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Re: Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #2162 on: December 18, 2012, 08:02:02 PM »
You can use a utility like roboform - Its great for Username/password I wouldn't survive without it
I was about to suggest lastpass, it's a browser extension similar to roboform

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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #2163 on: December 18, 2012, 11:17:54 PM »
* As for those who have been wondering why I wanted a fingerprint reader so badly, my browsing patterns happen to involve lots of entering username/passwords. A fingerprint reader would've made life infinitely easier. Oh well...
you can also use it for websites not just the computer itself?

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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #2164 on: December 18, 2012, 11:55:43 PM »
yes - I even have all my clients logmein info saved on it - when you get to any site that has a username and password roboform has a small toolbar you just click and it automatically fills the username ans pw that go with that specific site! Its awesome

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« Reply #2165 on: December 18, 2012, 11:59:36 PM »
yes - I even have all my clients logmein info saved on it - when you get to any site that has a username and password roboform has a small toolbar you just click and it automatically fills the username ans pw that go with that specific site! Its awesome
were you answering my question? bec i was asking about the fingerprint reader

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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #2166 on: December 19, 2012, 12:01:46 AM »
yes - I even have all my clients logmein info saved on it - when you get to any site that has a username and password roboform has a small toolbar you just click and it automatically fills the username ans pw that go with that specific site! Its awesome
you can also use roboform or lastpass to open a new tab navigate and log you in to any saved site. I absolutely love lastpass

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« Reply #2167 on: December 19, 2012, 12:07:12 AM »
oh sorry thought you meant roboform

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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #2168 on: December 19, 2012, 04:38:31 AM »
you can also use it for websites not just the computer itself?

Yes.

That's why I wanted it so badly. :(

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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #2169 on: December 19, 2012, 08:22:46 AM »
@DH
Maybe there shoud be a rating system for laptop deals of 1-5 with 5 being the hottest deal, So that members can know how hot the deal is?
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« Reply #2170 on: December 19, 2012, 08:24:18 AM »
@DH
Maybe there shoud be a rating system for laptop deals of 1-5 with 5 being the hottest deal, So that members can know how hot the deal is?

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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #2173 on: December 19, 2012, 09:28:47 AM »
Slightly O/T but about the Amex offer:

A while back I synced by amex gold rewards to twitter and tried doing the dell offer - but i didnt get a response tweet. I assumed i missed on the offer due to limited availability. I sm-ed and they said no problem - if I spend at dell just write them back and they will credit $150.

Yesterday I bought the $699 deal we are all discussing, and got an e-mail from Amex saying thank you for using the sync deal. I assume this means I was synced after all and will get the $150?

I sm-ed Amex (not mentioning the e-mail I received) and they said they have just issued a credit that will post with my upcoming statement.

Will I get 2 $150 credits?

Below are the SM's:







Response     12/18/2012 01:55 PM
Dear Redbull3,

Please do not worry and I will take care of your request right away!

I have now issued the statement credit of $150.00 to your account. You will see this credit on your upcoming statement.

I hope that I have provided excellent service and handled your inquiry to your satisfaction.

Have an excellent day!

Sincerely,               
           
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Customer (Redbull3)     12/18/2012 01:16 PM
Thank you I made the purchase at Dell for over $700 as per your recommendation, can you be sure that the $150 statement credit posts? Thanks.
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12/04/2012 01:09 AM

Dear Redbull3,

Hope you are in good health.

I see the offer hasn't expired yet as the offer end date is December 31, 2012; however, enrollment for this offer is limited.

Therefore, you might try syncing your card at www.sync.americanexpress.com/twitter and see if you can avail the offer.

In case you cannot, please go ahead and make the purchase. Once the purchase at dell.com posts to your account, please write back to us and we will review your account for any possible credits.

I hope you understand that we are doing this as a gesture of goodwill towards your account.

Hope this is to your satisfaction. Should you have any other concerns, please do write to us.

Have an excellent day!

Sincerely,   
   
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Customer (Redbull3)     12/03/2012 03:41 PM

I really wanted to partake in the #AmexDellOffer synched with twitter ($150 after spending $600 at Dell) but I missed out on the offer :( it seems to have sold out. Is there any way I can still be synched to this offer for my gold card? I really need to buy a new lap top!

 


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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #2175 on: December 19, 2012, 10:33:40 AM »
you can also use roboform or lastpass to open a new tab navigate and log you in to any saved site. I absolutely love lastpass
with either one of these apps/extensions, could you sync the info with a few different computers or is each computer separate?

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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #2176 on: December 19, 2012, 10:49:31 AM »
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4903660

Lenovo G580 59344054 Notebook PC
3rd Gen. Intel Core i5-3210M 2.5GHz
4GB DDR3
500GB HDD
DVDRW
15.6" Display
Windows 8 64-bit

$419! After $50 MIR

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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #2177 on: December 19, 2012, 10:54:50 AM »
DH, can you take a look at the 2 links i posted on the last post of the last page

are either of those a good deal  ?

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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #2178 on: December 19, 2012, 11:09:03 AM »
Both are weak prices. The thing about deals are you gotta know the regular price of the item in order to know if its a deal. You can't go by the "manufacturers" regular price because that's never accurate its like the MSRP.

Look at the 2nd one from lenovo you posted, the one I posted @ tigerdirect has 4gb less ram and 500gb smaller hard drive, but its also over $100 cheaper!

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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #2179 on: December 19, 2012, 11:12:26 AM »
granted, but isnt 4gb ram pretty weak
ideally, i would not want to go under 6, i want something that will stay fairly up to date for a while