jerseygamer :
Asus, Gateway, HP, Toshiba, Acer for quality and performance for your money in the order I listed them.
As a person who has probably fixed over 500 laptops in my life so far I can say Dell is about the biggest pile of dung you can buy. Dont waste your money. Then again if nobody bought Dell I would not make much cash after my full time job. I swear to god. Every recomendation I have ever made on laptop purchase has been solid. People that own Dell already or dont listen and buy them anyways are 90% of my buisness. Such a hudge POS line of products. Right up there with macbooks. I will admit pretty much all apple products are at the bottom of the line for quality Dell is VERY close.
Anyone agree with this guy?
I hope you follow threads you comment in because I'd like you to expand on your statements. ;-)
Do you mean Dell's line from their Inspirions to Latitudes? Older generation to current?
Latitudes D600 series to D800 series to XPS 13 and 16 to the Precisions? Which Dells are we talking about here?
Which laptops do you like to repair? Which are easy or relatively easy? Thinkpads? Also, which generation of whatever brand you prefer?
I would like someone to recommend to me a laptop that has a good screen, decent graphics, eSATA and is stable/sturdy (so probably a business line laptop unless it's a multimedia one that is well-built - rare?). I'd like a good screen because I use my computer to watch movies/videos and I like eSATA because I need extra storage space to store my data. Laptop drives are bigger these days but I prefer to have my data and OS separate anyway.
So, which laptop? Budget $1500 and under.... I think over that is getting kinda high although if it's a world beater, I'd consider....