What is the best laptop brand to purchase?

jolo: What is the best laptop brand to purchase?
So I’m planning on purchasing a new laptop, and it’s intended for mostly school work and graphic design and basically just for general use that any high school student would have. It’s going to serve as a desktop computer for me because I prefer laptops over desktops. I want it to last for years to come and I just want to know which laptop sounds best for me. I also plan on upgrading the processor and memory. Any suggestions?

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Answer by Evan M
new macbooks are rumored to becoming out in a bout a month, get a mac. i believe they are 5 years ahead of any PC.

Answer by little miss lovely
You want a MAC

Answer by JL
Any PC that’s around $ 700. You don’t need that much performance, so going past $ 800 is rather pointless.

Brands are worthless, so just buy something you feel is fast, sturdy, and looks alright.

Answer by Scanner
The best laptops made in the industry are IBM. They meet all of you requirements and desires, plus their resale value is unbeatable. Now, listen to what I’m tellin’ ya: you DO NOT get the LENOVO. You DO NOT. Lenovo purchased IBM’s laptop division several years ago and that is a separate division, operating under different design and quality standards. Yes, Lenovo owns the IBM laptop division, but they operate separately. Lenovos are JUNK. Complete and total JUNK. Not worth a dime. But the IBM models – sold by Lenovo on their website – are known as the industry’s best available. Now you are going to pay for it, but those laptops will meet your needs.

If you want to explore and alternate brand see Toshiba’s professional series. Not the Satellite series. Those are the budget ones. They work but won’t last you.

Answer by Olliellama
I am not an expert but i have been on just about every laptop there is so hopefully i can help

Apple laptops are good for the arts like photography, media, making films. I make some short films and i love using apples for this. On the other hand if you are used to Microsoft the apple software is very hard to get used to but when or if you do you’ll love it.

Dell laptops are probably the best for you they can do graphic design they are very easy to use. I have a dell and it can last through about anything i dropped it sat on it and it’s still holding up fine. Dells are just good all around

Gateways are crap don’t get one they break way to easy. there just all around bad computers.

Answer by Bobby C
anything BUT WINDOS VISTA IS SUCKS!

Answer by CJ
Someone above dissed Lenovo, but when Lenovo bought the PC-Division of IBM, it also included the Lab design in Japan. The same design teams and engineers are still there. Beside that, Lenovo used to manufacture IBM’s laptops before they bought the division.

Lenovo makes a convertible tablet — you can use it like a laptop or flip the screen and draw/write on it with a “pen”. The Lenovo X61t is wildly popular with reviewers and users. You can get it with an internal wireless card which lets you use it anywhere. I got mine with a Verizon card. It works everywhere!

I’m a gifted science teacher so I use mine for creating, projecting and saving lecture notes for all six of my classes, drawing diagrams and illustrations for complex cycles and concepts, writing curriculum and lesson plans, plus blogging, and hosting our class website and wiki pages. Oh.. I use it for surfing the web and watching DVD’s too ( I have the Ultrabase).

It’s a tough little notebook — tucked inside a Tom Bihn Braincell bag, it withstood being run over by my husband’s car (not to mention getting banged around daily in a backpack or cart with huge textbooks and curriculum binders)! It’s not the most sleek and stylish laptop out there, but I could care less about looks when I’ve got great battery life and an amazing penabled touch screen.

An an owner, I suppose I am biased, but I did tons of research before purchasing (just bought it in March). It has never crashed or had a problem, despite being used for 8-10 hours every day, going into hibernation or sleep multiple times a day, and often used while running 4 or 5 programs and always with about 20 tabs open in Firefox.

I couldn’t decide on Windows XP or Vista. I finally went with Vista, so we would have our Mac desktop which also runs XP on Parallells, and my laptop with Vista will allow our household to run just about anything. But a fellow teacher went with the XP version and loves hers as much as I love mine.

Other details: Intel Core Duo 2 1.6 GHz with 2 GB RAM.