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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 #7480 on: January 01, 2015, 12:14:45 PM »
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Toshiba's more than all the other companies come back to me for fixing...
Ok, tnx.

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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #7481 on: January 01, 2015, 04:39:23 PM »
  I am in Greece and need to finish a spend on a card with an Fx fee. Would like to get a I5 laptop
15-17 inch ASAP to replace a 5 year old Dell that's on its last legs .

Almost all email , surfing, office , stock market streaming , running multiple windows and never any gaming . Size and weight not important cause it will never leave the house .

Want to stay with Win 7 . Will have it sent via diplomatic pouch so won't be a problem buying from
Staples , Dell any large store that ships

Would like 6 MGS of ram but with an I5 do I really need 6 versus 4 . Never had anything newer than an I3 so anything as good as my 17 inch HP I3 will do .
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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #7483 on: January 01, 2015, 05:48:30 PM »
I'm looking for a laptop in the 400-500 price range(maybe a little more)
I need it for office, web browsing, and some video streaming(not crazy about picture quality)
between 13-15 inches and it needs to last a long time.
TIA


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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #7485 on: January 01, 2015, 07:17:55 PM »
IMHO hp always is better than toshiba

HP biz machines are great laptops, the ProBook and EliteBook series are phenomenal. Unfortunately the Envy models that have been released in the past few years are very weak. The touch pads are horrible, and the laptops just don't move the way you would expect them to with these specs.

I would love to take a poll of the ppl here that bought HP laptops in the past year, how many are satisfied with its performance.

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« Reply #7486 on: January 01, 2015, 07:40:23 PM »
HP biz machines are great laptops, the ProBook and EliteBook series are phenomenal. Unfortunately the Envy models that have been released in the past few years are very weak. The touch pads are horrible, and the laptops just don't move the way you would expect them to with these specs.

I would love to take a poll of the ppl here that bought HP laptops in the past year, how many are satisfied with its performance.
Very true, the envys are not what they used to be. However compared to a toshiba they still have the upper hand.
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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #7487 on: January 01, 2015, 07:57:12 PM »
Some are very good.

Would you please recommend one to meet my needs outlined above a few posts
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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #7488 on: January 01, 2015, 08:20:51 PM »
I would love to take a poll of the ppl here that bought HP laptops in the past year, how many are satisfied with its performance.

I got the hp elitebook from ebay that was on the main site couple of weeks ago.

So far I'm pretty happy although the only program I have is MS office. Ive also been trying to keep my pictures and videos (have a lot of them) on an external HD to keep the computer from slowing down too much.
Pros - quick startup, fingerprint reader (makes startup even faster), backlit, great feel on mouse and keyboard, wireless switch right on keyboard
con - the main one I have so far is that the battery life isnt too long. I also dont love that to raise/lower the volume is a function key combination

curious if anyone else has this and what their opinion is

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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #7489 on: January 01, 2015, 08:36:01 PM »
any good deals on a 4th generation  i7  8bg ram 1 tb hard drive? looking to use music editing programs on it. THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!

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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #7490 on: January 01, 2015, 08:59:07 PM »
I got the hp elitebook from ebay that was on the main site couple of weeks ago.

So far I'm pretty happy although the only program I have is MS office. Ive also been trying to keep my pictures and videos (have a lot of them) on an external HD to keep the computer from slowing down too much.
Pros - quick startup, fingerprint reader (makes startup even faster), backlit, great feel on mouse and keyboard, wireless switch right on keyboard
con - the main one I have so far is that the battery life isnt too long. I also dont love that to raise/lower the volume is a function key combination

curious if anyone else has this and what their opinion is
Don't bother with an external hard drive, just use cloud storage.
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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #7491 on: January 01, 2015, 09:26:08 PM »
Don't bother with an external hard drive, just use cloud storage.
Or better yet,  both.
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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #7492 on: January 01, 2015, 10:09:35 PM »
I got the hp elitebook from ebay that was on the main site couple of weeks ago.

So far I'm pretty happy although the only program I have is MS office. Ive also been trying to keep my pictures and videos (have a lot of them) on an external HD to keep the computer from slowing down too much.
Pros - quick startup, fingerprint reader (makes startup even faster), backlit, great feel on mouse and keyboard, wireless switch right on keyboard
con - the main one I have so far is that the battery life isnt too long. I also dont love that to raise/lower the volume is a function key combination

curious if anyone else has this and what their opinion is
The Elitebook is awesome - I love it

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« Reply #7493 on: January 01, 2015, 10:20:42 PM »
Don't bother with an external hard drive, just use cloud storage.
recommendation?

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« Reply #7494 on: January 01, 2015, 10:38:01 PM »
I'm looking for a laptop in the 400-500 price range(maybe a little more)
I need it for office, web browsing, and some video streaming(not crazy about picture quality)
between 13-15 inches and it needs to last a long time.
TIA
DH any recommendations?

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« Reply #7497 on: January 02, 2015, 12:55:16 AM »
I have the b5280 am extremely happy with it!
Good, hopefully they started making them better now.
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« Reply #7498 on: January 02, 2015, 02:47:39 AM »
Any deals on an entry level laptop used mainly for web browsing and basic office work?

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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #7499 on: January 02, 2015, 09:18:42 AM »
http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-17-7737/pd?oc=dncwj1906h

This a good deal for $774 plus tax?

I'm not in a rush. Might I get a better deal if I wait?
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