Laptop brands ...

[Volga]

I have 3 brands to choose from..

Acer, Toshiba, and HP..

I'm prolly going to go with an I3 with 320-500G hard drive, 4Gram and Win7 Premium.

The computer is for work, word processing and all that.

Anyone care to weigh in on these 3 brands and share good / bad experiences?

[Thulghor]

Such a bad lineup...

I'd go Acer. It's the least rotten apple in the bunch.

Your HP will die in a year, and your Toshiba will have intermittent problems that will never get properly fixed ever.

[Itchybottom]

From those brands, the only thing really reliable would be:


HP EliteBook
Toshiba Tecra


But something tells me that's out of your price range. Next best, on the consumer end of things (crapshoot, 2 years average reliability):


HP dv series
Toshiba Satellite


The community at NotebookReview (http://www.notebookreview.com/) can probably address your needs better than the posters of this forum.

[jyaku]

i'v had a toshiba for over a year and the only problems i'v had are problems i'v given myself (serious trojans and stuff like that). i had a buddy that got an acer and it died in under a week

[Volga]

I was thinking of a Satellite - I just need something to plug into the overhead to display lesson plans, watch movies on the ferry rides, and keep notes in Onenote - don't need to much power.. Battery Life might be important so I'm hoping to get about 3.5 hours or so on a 6 cell.

Thanks for hte feedback.