hey guys what would you say the best company for buying a laptop is?...alienware and voodoo and falcon-nw are too pricy...and i customized a fairly good laptop for a good price with HP...what do you guys think is the best company to go with? budget around 1500

I'd like to know too. I need a laptop soon..

it depends on what you're planning to do with it. If you need one to just do simple tasks like chatting and music/movies, i'd go for a simple dell inspiron.

If you plan on playing lightweight games... i'd go for an asus or toshiba.. you could find a decent gaming one on newegg for around 1500.

personally, i find gaming laptops a waste of money.

+1 on Asus

I see that your name is "ihateibuypower", so I won't suggest that.... (Not that I was going to in the first place; I hear nothing but bad from that company)


I LOVE my Dell XPS M1710. Battery life sucks, it weighs a ton, but it runs every game out right now. (Crysis scares me)

If your looking for a good laptop deal, I would watch www.dealstobuy.com. They tend to have good laptop deals. At your price range, I would look for anything with a Core 2 Duo and a Geforce Go7600 in it. That should suit you well.

Best of Luck

aright here are the specifics....would very much like a long lasting battery life...the glossy screen if possible (the hard one thats not like actually hard...not the typical screen), good graphics screen, will play warcraft 3 TFT on it but that doesnt take much...lots of music and movies and its gonna be 15.4 inches i know that...ill take a look at some asus ones but right now HP is the best i can find

IMO HP is good enough.
Toshiba is also good too, with the bonus of stability, but at the cost of appearance.
Asus is not as good as you may think, but if you want to go for that, its fine too.

Dell... i would think twice before going for it. Dell's laptop is known for lacking in stability and reliability.

Don't ever go for Sony, unless you're really into appearance. For the same money, you can have a HP with better hardware.

I would go with Dell. Check out www.dealcatcher.com for coupon codes that will save you some additional dough on Dell machines. Generally I've found Dell machines to be more reliable than HPs. Although, I would still get a decent warranty with it. This is an area I've have had much better experience with Dell than HP. When an HP is out of warranty, they won't even talk to you for free. If you buy the Dell through their small business division, you get US based phone support rather than India. Dealcatcher has a separate section for Dell SB too.

Ryan

hmm, well all 15.4 inch laptops i've ever tried (dell, asus, acer) had lasted 2.5 -3 hours with music/ couple shows and some chit chattin.. im not sure if battery life is something you should set high expectations for.

As for what viperabyss said.... im not so sure you can generalize dell's laptops just like that. Have you even witnessed this... "instability" or the lacking of reliability you speak of?

THey have different classes of laptops and the latitude series is quite a jump from the inspiron series, kind of like jumping from toyota into lexus

IMO HP is good enough.
Toshiba is also good too, with the bonus of stability, but at the cost of appearance.
Asus is not as good as you may think, but if you want to go for that, its fine too.

Dell... i would think twice before going for it. Dell's laptop is known for lacking in stability and reliability.

Don't ever go for Sony, unless you're really into appearance. For the same money, you can have a HP with better hardware.

My 6 yr old INspiron 8200 is still chugging along. My dads 4 yr old 8600 is running without one issue yet. My friends 8500 died after 5 yrs. Intense

Go for Dell or Toshiba. Dell constantly has better relaiblity ratings than HP from Consumer Reports and PCMag.

If all the gaming u want is Warcraft3, then you dont need a graphics card.

If you are using Vista, get 2gigs of ram.

Here is what I would get for your range:
http://www.dell.com/content/topics [...] l=en&s=dhs

Dell Inspiron E1505 base no warranty extesion $700
15.4" Glossy LCD (Truelife)
Intel Core Duo 1.83ghz +40
Vista Home Premium +30
2gb ddr2 533 (667is a ripoff) +150
120gb 5400rpm hd +55
dvd burner +40
256mb GeForce 7300 +100
9 Cell battery (in the e1405 got 8hr battery life +50

TOTAL: $1161.... that is with a 1yr warranty

Trust me get a dell laptop not desktop

Personally I'd rank the major vendors in this order Toshiba, HP, Asus, Dell, Sony, and so on. I recently helped set my mom up with a pretty nice HP laptop, I love it and wish I had one.

Macbook/Mackbook pro

ehh dell is sorta out of the question, because i hate them and the laptop i got from them is shit (kinda old but whatever)...i can make the same kind of laptop from HP and i trust them more...also they have 12 cell batterys for very long life...ill look at some acer's though...and ASUS is wayyyy too expensive, but some look great

I'd say look at HP's consumer lines, they're far and above better in build quality than Dell's. HP's business models are of an even higher quality, solid as Thinkpads and the such.

Try the top-of-the-line Toshiba A100/A105, it's got a Core 2 Duo, 2 gigs of RAM and a Go 7600. My friend has essentially the same laptop, but from a couple of generations ago with a Go 6600 in it, and it's a nice laptop, pretty fast, and games work fine on it. Right now here in Canada, you can get the highest-spec'd A100 for $1500 Canadian, so that should translate to around $1300 USD.