Nobteook Manufractors

[va!n]

hi guys,
i am very frustrated atm, because i had to send my notebook once again back to the manufractor due fact of a lot technical problems, making coding/working impossible, because computer turned automatical off very very often. Its a LG (www.lge.de) notebook which has nice technical datas but  since the beginning i am getting again and again in trouble with this notebook.

So i would like to share with you, your experience with notebook manufractors, technical details and price/performance/support.

[zawran]

The notebooks that I have experience with are the ones that we use at the company I work at. Its all HP business models. With the exception of one perticular model, they have all proven to be fairly stable. At the moment I have an 8510p model, which is really nice. Only problem I have had with it, was that the graphics card sometimes shut off, but it has been fixed with an update from HP, so now its running really well. All in all we have somewhere between 8500 and 9000 laptops, I can't remember the exact figure. And we do have units that breaks down ofcause, but mostly due to people installing crap onto them or throwing them around while they are running. People just don't really care about the hardware  when they haven't paid for it themselves, and when they know that it will be replaced without questions. HP has two lines of laptops, those you buy in supermarkets (pavilion,presario) and those you buy from real computer stores (business notebooks like the ncxxxx,nwxxxx series). The business models are more money, but you get more stable units, although not always the latest most fancy features.

[benny!]

I have a SONY VAIO notebook since 6 months or so.

It's ok and runs without problems. Although I think the
price might be too high. Looking at notebooks now the
next I would buy would be an ASUS, I think. My girl-
friend has one and it seems to be rather solid with a
moderate price.

What really did piss me off was that on my SONY VAIO
there were a dozens of pre-installed SHAREWARE progs
which is really annoying in my eyes.

[premium^prd]

Aloha,

i use an Fujitsu Siemens Laptop as Desktop Replacement with 17" Display and GF6800 go since 2 years now
and it worx like a charm, only thing that broke down was the gfx card but got replaced very fast via Fujitsu Siemens!