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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: Re: Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #1400 on: September 04, 2012, 12:10:12 PM »
The smaller size hard drive is because its ssd. Solid state drives are way lighter and faster! so if lightweight and speed is important.... otherwise we can look for a reg hard drive with more space
Understood, and I don't think they will need more storage space but they want more storage space
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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #1401 on: September 04, 2012, 08:39:32 PM »

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« Reply #1402 on: September 04, 2012, 08:53:50 PM »

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« Reply #1403 on: September 04, 2012, 09:41:20 PM »
HP has the DV6t quad edition

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I would get the 7200RPM hard drive even ifs its a drop smaller (750GB)

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« Reply #1404 on: September 04, 2012, 10:17:47 PM »
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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #1405 on: September 05, 2012, 10:56:45 AM »
I just got them to accept my return on the case of the Lenovo Z570 bringing the total down to 288$ :D
They said usually they do not do it on a Combo.

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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #1406 on: September 05, 2012, 04:10:03 PM »
Any deals for a cheap but serviceable ethernet switch?

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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #1407 on: September 05, 2012, 04:44:19 PM »
Any deals for a cheap but serviceable ethernet switch?
How many ports?

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Re: Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #1408 on: September 05, 2012, 05:15:07 PM »
How many ports?
the least I found is 4 ports which is more then enough for me.
Is rosewill a good brand? Newegg has one on sale, what about all the other cheap brands Newegg has?

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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #1409 on: September 05, 2012, 05:32:44 PM »
Just go to newegg and pick the cheapest one that has good ratings and you should be ok. Remember if you want gigabit check that its 1000 not 100

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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #1410 on: September 05, 2012, 08:22:38 PM »
any reason to get this rosewill over their cheapest option a Zunidigital?

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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #1411 on: September 05, 2012, 09:55:48 PM »
you may get better service on the rosewill - it's basically neweggs company

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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #1412 on: September 06, 2012, 05:20:39 PM »
I just got them to accept my return on the case of the Lenovo Z570 bringing the total down to 288$ :D
They said usually they do not do it on a Combo.
My card was declined for some reason. I called them today to update my billing info and told them that my friend got a combo deal and his total was $314 including a backpack. She said she'll send me the backpack free in addition to a $36($60-$24 for the backpack) GC!
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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #1413 on: September 06, 2012, 05:51:30 PM »
mistake.  I assumed needed to us chase card for the bonus. O well live and learn
i bought a laptop from newegg through UR mall and used a amex card and recvied the bonus points is it confirmed now that's happening to everyone I plan on making a big purchase and want to make sure

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Re: Laptop Deals Master Thread
« Reply #1414 on: September 06, 2012, 05:52:45 PM »
i bought a laptop from newegg through UR mall and used a amex card and recvied the bonus points is it confirmed now that's happening to everyone I plan on making a big purchase and want to make sure

Depends on the merchant. YMMV, since if you have an issue with the mall points posting, Chase reps won't be helpful.
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« Reply #1415 on: September 06, 2012, 05:53:51 PM »
Depends on the merchant. YMMV, since if you have an issue with the mall points posting, Chase reps won't be helpful.
im buying from chryles twirth what do you say any expirnce?

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« Reply #1416 on: September 06, 2012, 05:55:17 PM »
got from neweg using amex

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« Reply #1417 on: September 06, 2012, 06:09:23 PM »
im buying from chryles twirth what do you say any expirnce?

There is a thread here somewhere woth a list of merchants that the points posted for with a different cc being used.


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« Reply #1418 on: September 06, 2012, 06:31:47 PM »
There is a thread here somewhere woth a list of merchants that the points posted for with a different cc being used.
i can't seem to find it

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