Need a New Laptop

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So im looking for a new laptop. A decent one - not used for gaming more for my studies and work.

my budget is around R6,000 and R8,000 - any ideas :D
 
Those HPs... SUCK! Dont touch them unless you dont want much from your system.
 
I just bought the one listed on the last page in the middle of this advert. Loving it so far and have priced around and elsewhere on the net it is going for R8000+ so a great price.

http://www.matrixwarehouse.co.za/html/pricelist.htm

The advert is also wrong and should read 512Mb X 2 RAM. I also kept Vista and dual booted with XP for work. Got webcam, built in mic so loving it for Skype! Will be using built in wifi soon to set up wireless network at home.

Had a few comments at work about how good it looks too...
 
w1z4rd said:
Those HPs... SUCK! Dont touch them unless you dont want much from your system.
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Please qualify this? How do you know they're no good? My experience (and a friend who bought at the same time as me) have proven that they are good machines.

Plus he doesn't have to buy an HP. There are many brands to choose from.
 
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w1z4rd said:
Those HPs... SUCK! Dont touch them unless you dont want much from your system.
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I've been very happy with my HP Pavilion since Dec 2005. It still runs like a dream. A good solid reasonably powerful machine! Runs XP home and Ubuntu Linux perfectly. Last year I added a 160 Gb HDD and 1.2 Gb of RAM. Runs even better now. Battery life is also not bad. My next laptop is probably going to be another HP machine.
 
Havnt had any issues with my new HP, sold a lot to not a lot of problems. I would normally recomend lenovo, but not going to anymore after I was quoted R1300 to repair a small plastic clip which broke off for the battery:(
 
davidpey said:
Please qualify this? How do you know they're no good? My experience (and a friend who bought at the same time as me) have proven that they are good machines.

Plus he doesn't have to buy an HP. There are many brands to choose from.
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I know there are many brands to choose from. My issue is with HP, and their cruddy way of shafting its consumers.
 
My 2c worth....

I have used Dell, Toshiba, Acer, Gateway, Mecer, IBM, Lenovo and HP laptops for the last 15 or so years. I abuse my laptops. They get thrown into my boot, squashed into overhead compartments and sometiimes I even share my coffee with them. My last 3 Laptops have been HP, admittedly the top of the range mobile workstations but HP none the less. I am extremely happy with HP. I personally wouldn't touch Toshiba or Acer but that's because mine were probably "Friday" machines. I have one HP that is 5 years old, I chucked some extra RAM into it and it flies with VISTA!!!

W1z4rd if you had the IQ of a rabbit (or whatever) you would have checked out the driver situation BEFORE you made your purchases. Don't blame everybody else, HP and MS included for your stupidity. Not sure if you remember but all the hardware suppliers at one stage stopped developing drivers for XP because MS said they were going to stop shipping XP. This changed and the drivers were supplied. IF you had done some research you would also have found out that if you have Vista Business or better you could "downgrade" to XP Pro at no cost. A fool and his moola are VERY soon parted.

In my opinion HP make a great product. If you do decide to get a Vista machine regardless of hardware manufacturer get 2GB RAM. RAM is cheap now, enjoy the experience.

W1z4rd one more thing your blog says...

decent specs (duel AMD, Nvidia chipset, 1GB of RAM)...

Who won the fight?:D
 
MadMailMan said:
My 2c worth....

I have used Dell, Toshiba, Acer, Gateway, Mecer, IBM, Lenovo and HP laptops for the last 15 or so years. I abuse my laptops. They get thrown into my boot, squashed into overhead compartments and sometiimes I even share my coffee with them. My last 3 Laptops have been HP, admittedly the top of the range mobile workstations but HP none the less. I am extremely happy with HP. I personally wouldn't touch Toshiba or Acer but that's because mine were probably "Friday" machines. I have one HP that is 5 years old, I chucked some extra RAM into it and it flies with VISTA!!!

W1z4rd if you had the IQ of a rabbit (or whatever) you would have checked out the driver situation BEFORE you made your purchases. Don't blame everybody else, HP and MS included for your stupidity. Not sure if you remember but all the hardware suppliers at one stage stopped developing drivers for XP because MS said they were going to stop shipping XP. This changed and the drivers were supplied. IF you had done some research you would also have found out that if you have Vista Business or better you could "downgrade" to XP Pro at no cost. A fool and his moola are VERY soon parted.

In my opinion HP make a great product. If you do decide to get a Vista machine regardless of hardware manufacturer get 2GB RAM. RAM is cheap now, enjoy the experience.

W1z4rd one more thing your blog says...

decent specs (duel AMD, Nvidia chipset, 1GB of RAM)...

Who won the fight?:D
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Sorry, I did not know you were getting such a cruddy OS that could hardly run on the hardware, and is basically designed to screw the consumer. If thats your cake. Eat it, I dont have to.

When I buy hardware, I like to have choice in what I run on it, HP appear to be delibrely holding back drivers for more useful OS`s. That anti-competitive rubbish is siff, the consumer suffers.

I understand some people wanna buy vista, but a lot dont.

You might wanna lay off those personal attacks a bit. Theyre silly.
 
I think its absolute carp that they dont bring out XP drivers for certain machines, but you should have checked for drivers 1st.
 
Anti competative? What are you on? XP and Vista are both MS products! :confused:

I was just saying you shouldn't blame HP becuse YOU didn't check driver availability and OS BEFORE you made you purchase. Nothing personal you just seem to me like you enjoy blaming others for YOUR mistakes.
 
We are taking this thread off topic ( well perhaps not as it is giving the OP things to ponder before buying a laptop) but I have to admit that I did quite extensive research regarding the compatibility of the laptop i was looking at with XP prior to purchasing it. It came with Vista Business and I ensured it could take XP. To the point of phoning LG and Microsoft themselves... then even before formatting the drive I ensured I was able to find, and download, the drivers off the LG website.

Not sure you can blame a laptop make for that error. If your HP blew up then I would caution others against buying it as that is out of your control.

My view anyway is that the majority of components in a laptop are provided by the same suppliers anyway, so they are much of a muchness. As regards service, I hope never to have to contact the supplier!
 
Dell Latitude D630, got mine just over a week now, it's for work and very pleased, 2gb ddr2 ram, vista business, intel core 2 duo, 80gb sata 7200rpm, bluetooth and wireless b/g builtin, TPM chip, enjoying it, also have an Acer, 4yrs works like a treat.
 
ghalied said:
Dell Latitude D630, got mine just over a week now, it's for work and very pleased, 2gb ddr2 ram, vista business, intel core 2 duo, 80gb sata 7200rpm, bluetooth and wireless b/g builtin, TPM chip, enjoying it, also have an Acer, 4yrs works like a treat.
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The guy did mention a budget of R6,000-R8,000 this laptop is well over R10,000.... seems a bit pointless mentioning it.
 
I've been using a HP 530 for work and studies and so far its great. Previous 3 notebooks were also HPs and I never had a single problem.

Specs of the HP530
2.16GHz Core Duo
120Gb HDD
1GB RAM (standard) - mine 2GB
DVD-RW
15.4"
Wifi and all the other standard stuff.

Total cost a while back incl the extra ram was about R6700.

Cheers
Slayer
 
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