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HP and Sony laptops are terrible too
from a reliability point of view.
Every single one that passed through
my hands (or those of someone I knew)
broke and took forever to fix.
My current recommendation for people
on student budgets is Fujitsu. Very
good balance of performance, quality,
reliability, and excellent service
and support. I packed my kids to
college with 13" Fujitsu laptops,
and they are very happy with them.
For the very best, go Panasonic.
dk
"Sachin" <sachten@rediffmail.com> wrote in message
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> I have an Inspiron
> I took a four year warranty.
> In four years, Dell replaced the display, the hardrive, the keyboard and
> eventually the entire laptop.
> Now I am in 5th year- they wont extend the warranty. Every few times- the
> Laptop does not boot up, putting out an error message that 'no bootable
> services found'. When it boots up it does work fine. But there is no
> guarantee that it will boot up. Iwas told by Dell that its either the hard
> disk (once replaced) or the motherboard. I am not certain yet what I
should
> do. Those were my problems with DELL.
> Delllaptops are heavy and crude.
> The only good thing is that Dell has a half-decent customer support.
> Since you are a student and you need something that works all the time and
> for several years- DELL is a bad choice.
> I suggest that you look into HP or SONY.
> "Clint" <cneufeld@mysocks.shaw.ca> wrote in message
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> > I've got an Inspiron 9100, and I'm not sure I'd recommend it for a
college
> > student. Not if you're going to cart it around to classes, anyway. Too
> > heavy (close to 10 pounds just for the laptop), and battery life is too
> > short. As a desktop replacement, it's not too bad. And for games, it
> > supposed to be pretty good, with an ATI Mobile 9700Pro card in it.
> >
> > Clint
> >
> > "Bobby G" <bobby8@cox.net> wrote in message
> > news:ea6322e7.0407221337.2793af74@posting.google.com...
> > > I am going off to college in the fall and am buying a laptop. I would
> > > like it to be a fast computer that can handle current games. Size
> > > isn't a huge issue but I don't want something overly bulky. I have
> > > about 2000$ to spend (a little over won't hurt, but should be
> > > worthwhile). Right now a few I am looking at are the HP/Compaq nc800,
> > > Inspiron 9100, and the HP zx5000.
> > >
> > > What I must have in the laptop:
> > > -A fast processor
> > > -128 MB video
> > > -512 ram at least
> > > -40 gig HD is sufficient
> > > -3 Year Warranty
> > > -XP Professional
> > > -DVD/CDRW drive
> > > -Wireless LAN
> > > -Extra Battery
> > > -Carrying Case
> > >
> > > So if anyone has any suggestions for me it would be greatly
> > > appreciated.
> >
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