Need Advice on buying a Laptop....

[OracleTnT]

Seeing a lot on tuner, Need some advice on which one to choose and who is a good priced seller on tuner. mayde dell or sony. It is for some one in school (UWI).
Thanks for the help.

[devrat]

Kamla's Laptop emporium....2 convenient locations St Anns (North) and Palmiste (South).....special subsidized packages for students.

[foss]

I have never heard anything good of Sony Laptops.

[Centric]

Choose one based on how much you willing to spend. For school work, I would recommend at least:

Dell/HP/Toshiba
2GB RAM
320GB Hard Drive
Windows 7

[RBphoto]

Dell, best you can afford. No glossy screen sheit.. go antireflective. Buy the one with the biggest and best screen you can afford because this is the one component that you have to interface with all of the time. Aslo, buy one with a SSD. SSD's are coming down in price and really vibration proof your machine. I lost two hard drives due to knocks to my machines. I strongly suggest buying all of your software original. Other features:

Wifi
bluetooth
Extended keypad (with numeric keypad, especially if the person is in engineering)
a reversible video camera so they can tape lectures for future study.


Just a list of what I would want as a student... but I'm no expert.

[OracleTnT]

Dell, best you can afford. No glossy screen sheit.. go antireflective. Buy the one with the biggest and best screen you can afford because this is the one component that you have to interface with all of the time. Aslo, buy one with a SSD. SSD's are coming down in price and really vibration proof your machine. I lost two hard drives due to knocks to my machines. I strongly suggest buying all of your software original. Other features:


Wifi
bluetooth
Extended keypad (with numeric keypad, especially if the person is in engineering)
a reversible video camera so they can tape lectures for future study.


Just a list of what I would want as a student... but I'm no expert.

Thanks Dude, what is SSD? Willing to spend $5-6k Max.

[RBphoto]

Dell, best you can afford. No glossy screen sheit.. go antireflective. Buy the one with the biggest and best screen you can afford because this is the one component that you have to interface with all of the time. Aslo, buy one with a SSD. SSD's are coming down in price and really vibration proof your machine. I lost two hard drives due to knocks to my machines. I strongly suggest buying all of your software original. Other features:


Wifi
bluetooth
Extended keypad (with numeric keypad, especially if the person is in engineering)
a reversible video camera so they can tape lectures for future study.


Just a list of what I would want as a student... but I'm no expert.

Thanks Dude, what is SSD? Willing to spend $5-6k Max.

Solid state drive. Like a huge flash drive instaed of a hard disk. The advantage is that it can be faster and the it has no moving parts to wear out or get damaged during moving it like a hard disk.

[DVSTT]

I use an Asus ROG laptop. Not a problem at all with it. 3 years old and still going strong. It's easy to open so I clean it with compressed air every month and brush out the vents and ports.

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

Microsoft Surface started selling (preorder) today for US$600.

[Trini Hookah]

Dell, best you can afford. No glossy screen sheit.. go antireflective. Buy the one with the biggest and best screen you can afford because this is the one component that you have to interface with all of the time. Aslo, buy one with a SSD. SSD's are coming down in price and really vibration proof your machine. I lost two hard drives due to knocks to my machines. I strongly suggest buying all of your software original. Other features:


Wifi
bluetooth
Extended keypad (with numeric keypad, especially if the person is in engineering)
a reversible video camera so they can tape lectures for future study.


Just a list of what I would want as a student... but I'm no expert.

Thanks Dude, what is SSD? Willing to spend $5-6k Max.

Solid state drive. Like a huge flash drive instaed of a hard disk. The advantage is that it can be faster and the it has no moving parts to wear out or get damaged during moving it like a hard disk.

Cheaper to install the ssd yourself instead of buying one with it from factory. And Foss I disagree, only the lower end of the Vaio series aren't that good...if you can afford top end, you're good to go.

Recently got a Lenovo and it works like a charm

[Rainman]

Microsoft Surface started selling (preorder) today for US$600.

It looks good *puts on sunglasses* on the surface



YEEEAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH


sorry

[pyung99]

anything but a macbook. acer, asus, dell, hp, toshiba blah blah is d same stuff. order it online yuhself. can be for US$400 to US$1000 for undergrad UWI use.

[Corn Bird]

go with dell business class

http://www.dell.com/tt/business/p/laptops?cat=laptops&view=standard&isredir=true

the business class laptops are better quality than the home user.

i've had both home and business dell laptops -- had the business laptop for 2 1/2 years with zero problems and it's my primary computer. the home user laptop had some issues but it was under warranty and the local trinidad contractors (hired by dell) fixed everything on site.

as mentioned above, buy the laptop online and ship it down yourself. always call dell latin america directly; don't rely on local middlemen for purchases or repair.

make sure you get a three year warranty; you have to pay extra for this but it is worth it.

you won't get a laptop with a factory installed solid state drive (SSD) at $6000. However you can get a 7200 rpm hard drive (better than 5400 rpm drive) which means a more responsive machine. 5400 rpm is too slow for a $6000 laptop

[sliderz1]

Toshiba Satellite series has worked for me

as a base std no less than
an i3 or 2.2GHz processor
3GB RAM
320GB HD
>4hrs rated battery life
WiFi
Integrated graphics if you into that...

[salvation4U]

buy a dell inspiron 1520 cannot go wrong my clocking 5years 1mth

I use it everyday, after 2.5years battery gone, after 4years the harddrive and geforce graphic card gone and i simply buy new ones on amazon , and it good as new, plenty people have these laptops so parts easy to get..

when u have presentation and critical projects/reports to submit you dont want your laptop to crash....i've see it happen to students

Buy something good..doh let anybody tie-up ur head...i talkin frm experience ..A good laptop cost 5k to 7k....i paid 8k back in '07

[Trini Hookah]

If I had to recommend a Dell, i'd recommend an XPS. It's what his/her lecturers will be using at UWI as well.

[Corn Bird]

If I had to recommend a Dell, i'd recommend an XPS. It's what his/her lecturers will be using at UWI as well.

not going to get an xps for $6000. those will cost $9000 and above.

http://www.dell.com/tt/business/p/xps-15-l521x/pd?refid=xps-15-l521x&baynote_bnrank=0&baynote_irrank=2&~ck=dellSearch&isredir=true

[MonsterPower]

Oracle ... buy dell... not the best in terms of build quality as compared to hp or apple but its much better in terms of customer service .
Bluetooth is not required in any laptop u decide on

as mentioned b4 just get the extended warrenty and u will get it fixed/exchanged in no time.

What eva u do stay away from toshiba... have 2 as doorstops that the company refuse to fix even tho they under warrenty ... even blaming a hardware problem on software...

[NR8]

would you guys advise buying from amazon or directly from dell, hp, etc?

[Trini Hookah]

Amazon to de worle.

I bought off geeks.com though.

[javishm]

dell!

[fouljuice]

If I had to recommend a Dell, i'd recommend an XPS. It's what his/her lecturers will be using at UWI as well.

x2 and it could also run some recent games decently at high settings too once it don't have "Intel HD graphics" (when the person want to take a break from the learning)

not going to get an xps for $6000. those will cost $9000 and above.

The new models are expensive but the prices seem to drop soon after.
I had gotten a XPS15 (501x) for someone for about $6800 with warranty, a while ago when that model was still new. Meanwhile, Dell website was still saying "Starting at $1099"

Oh and if you could wait about 8 days, the laptop you buy could come with Windows 8 (if that interest you)

[RBphoto]

I using an asus that 4 years old and an HP dV7 that old as well. Both going strong.. just the hard drive in both dies and batteries not what they used to be. my dell crapped out on me

[Trini Hookah]

foss have a sweet XPS for 6-something, check in the Misc.

[Dizzy28]

Never would have thought of Lenovo as a contender but been using a R500 for the last 3.75 years. Not a single issue with anything in that time. Still has the original battery whilst I saw my sis change battery twice in her 2 yr old HP.

And the Lenovo built like a tank. It could take real beat up (the keyboard waterproof too)
Would recommend Lenovo to anyone.

[OracleTnT]

Got a quote for
Sony Vaio sve1511mfxs
intel core i7-3621qm Quad Core
8gb Ram
750gb HD
17.3" led dispaly
8x dvd burner
etc for $5800
What you all think?

[foss]

foss have a sweet XPS for 6-something, check in the Misc.

it sweet like dat !!

And for what it comes with, the price is cheappp..... it has everything



but it supposed to sell today.

[dougla_boy]

buy a dell inspiron 1520 cannot go wrong my clocking 5years 1mth

I use it everyday, after 2.5years battery gone, after 4years the harddrive and geforce graphic card gone and i simply buy new ones on amazon , and it good as new, plenty people have these laptops so parts easy to get..

when u have presentation and critical projects/reports to submit you dont want your laptop to crash....i've see it happen to students

Buy something good..doh let anybody tie-up ur head...i talkin frm experience ..A good laptop cost 5k to 7k....i paid 8k back in '07

worse facking laptop ever!!! had one, so much sheit went wrong with that eh............

[Rory Phoulorie]

Got a quote for
Sony Vaio sve1511mfxs
intel core i7-3621qm Quad Core
8gb Ram
750gb HD
17.3" led dispaly
8x dvd burner
etc for $5800
What you all think?

Who is supplying it at that price? New or used?

[Trini Hookah]

Has to be from online. 17" screens are a beauty, but girls complain to carry them around.