I'm thinking of switching from my desktop to a laptop. Looking at different brands/models at the moment but I'd like some personal opinions on the different brands (namely Sony, Samsung, HP, Toshiba, Lenovo etc....).
If having a stereo mixer is important to you stay away from Sony. The best laptop I've ever owned was a Toshiba like this one: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Toshiba...inum/4693054.p?id=1218509073307&skuId=4693054 Fast as fck with excellent sound quality/speakers.
Something in the range of $500-700. Similar to what deftones posted. I'm more interested in knowing about different peoples' experience with the different brands they used.
Ah then in that case you can't really go wrong with Samsung in terms of durability and feel. They've never let me down. My sister's Toshiba also feels really nice to use. Those are the two brands I would go for. Asus are good; Acer can be hit or miss. HP no longer do laptops but their division, Compaq, do so they may be OK.
I've been through several periods of my life where I needed different computers for different things. If you need *a computer* and you don't have any other, or you anticipate the end of life of your other computers is coming, you'll probably want one laptop to do everything you need to do. At that point it's worth shelling out more to get more power and screenspace, since that laptop would be substituting for your desktop also. This also increased the weight to the point where I didn't like carrying it around a whole lot, though I had that option if I really needed to. I had one behemoth laptop that served me for most of my college career and served me well. I didn't really miss having a desktop because of it. If it's not going to be your only computer, then find out what you're going to be primarily doing with it. My other laptop is a netbook I won in a raffle. It is really small and light. I can whip it out and get online really fast (although part of the really fast part came from me installing linux over the windows. Windows has no business being on a netbook). It writes essays, has dropbox, writes code, and surfs the internet, and that's really all a netbook does. It doesn't have the RAM to do any games or image editing or anything really computationally expensive. The screen is also, really, really, really cramped. But it's so convenient to carry it. Just from those two extremes you can see there are tradeoffs. You have to ask yourself what exactly is it you want to do on your laptop. Is it for carrying around every single day or less often than that? Are you going to be making arts? Are you just going to write essays on it? What could you do without?
Great. I got my eyes on Samsung and Toshiba at the moment. Although some of the feedback on Toshiba hasn't been too favorable on the net. But then again... its the internet. Vriska: Like I said, I'm thinking of switching from desktop to a laptop. So a netbook won't cut it for me.
I was explaining my own experience with two really different kinds of laptops. You probably want a higher end model, but I was also warning you about the lack of convenience about it.
My Toshiba was really nice. Don't remember the model but it was mid sized. Easy to carry around and easy to work. got it as a present so I don't how much it cost. My mom got it though so it had to be fairly cheap Lol
I'm using an eMachines (E727). Its battery life sucks, but its performances are okay. Not to mention eMachines is cheap as hell.
I am really digging this Samsung RC520 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Lap...Premium/dp/tech-data/B0053GLCDU/ref=de_a_smtd