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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 #1340 on: September 01, 2012, 11:02:23 PM »
so ship to dif address

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« Reply #1341 on: September 01, 2012, 11:22:26 PM »
how bad of mistake was to buy with chase sapphire for the 5x points instead of amex for the extra year warranty?

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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #1342 on: September 01, 2012, 11:24:08 PM »
is lenevo better than hp?

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« Reply #1343 on: September 01, 2012, 11:25:24 PM »
how bad of mistake was to buy with chase sapphire for the 5x points instead of amex for the extra year warranty?

Why didn't you do both. . . Use amex and go through UR mall. . .

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« Reply #1344 on: September 01, 2012, 11:25:47 PM »
is lenevo better than hp?
Depends on the model, depends who you ask

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« Reply #1345 on: September 01, 2012, 11:29:03 PM »
anyone selling their Lenovo?

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« Reply #1346 on: September 02, 2012, 12:16:38 AM »
Anyway to get a discount on MacBook air? ( 13inch)

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« Reply #1347 on: September 02, 2012, 12:42:32 AM »
This Lenovo is still avail - $479 after rebate

i5 3rd Gen
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500 GB Hard Drive
1 GB Dedicated Graphics (GT 630M)

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« Reply #1348 on: September 02, 2012, 12:44:07 AM »
also you can use this rebate in any store I believe so look around for any Lenovo and you can get either $50 or $100 rebate on them - depending on the model

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« Reply #1349 on: September 02, 2012, 01:29:51 AM »
Why didn't you do both. . . Use amex and go through UR mall. . .
mistake.  I assumed needed to us chase card for the bonus. O well live and learn

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« Reply #1350 on: September 02, 2012, 02:14:38 AM »
Anyway to get a discount on MacBook air? ( 13inch)
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« Reply #1351 on: September 02, 2012, 09:58:15 AM »
You waited a whole two hours in the middle of the night to bump?
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« Reply #1352 on: September 02, 2012, 10:05:02 AM »
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MacMall is cheaper than Apple.com, and you get UR points

Once in a while BestBest will have them on sale, other than that, it hard to get them discounted

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« Reply #1354 on: September 02, 2012, 11:31:18 AM »
whats about this deal? Lenovo G570 Notebook 450$ poosibly can we add the 50$ prepaid lenove card from newegg to get it for 400$
http://www.officemax.com/technology/computers/laptop-computers/product-prod4040010?EDID=ED0H5A-74BNR-HUBOLM-KPCHDF-6NTWT-v1&cm_mmc=Email-_-promo-_-wk36B-_-Sunday_Deal#blank

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« Reply #1355 on: September 02, 2012, 12:15:03 PM »
Its a good price for those specs, but the Z series is much better


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« Reply #1356 on: September 02, 2012, 12:16:50 PM »
Its a good price for those specs, but the Z series is much better
was just about to say that. The z series has a stronger solid feel to it and better build

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« Reply #1357 on: September 02, 2012, 12:21:54 PM »
thanks for replying,
and whats about this? dell NEW Inspiron 15R $431.99    
http://ecomm.dell.com/dellstore/basket.aspx?itemtype=CFG&s=dhs&l=en&cs=19&c=us&&details=false

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