Laptop recommendations

Hey all. I'm buying a new laptop soon and I was wondering which of these I should consider buying. Dell, Toshiba or HP? I'm leaning more towards Dell at the moment since it seems to be the most affordable for me, but I heard I'm better off buying an HP despite of it being more expensive.

By the way, I'm not looking for anything fancy. Just a computer I can use to do my homework and browse the net.

Thanks.

Moving to its proper forum!

I have two dell laptops, and they work miraculously. However, if you're going to get one, I would avoid getting the Dell Inspiron, they wanted to help better the battery life management by putting a motherboard on the battery, and as a result, the battery only lasts about a year.

It's a $150 battery.

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Sorry Quierta. I thought these forums were dead.

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Thats not very dead to me .

Like the above from Dogsbaby, I've had both. In fact, the Toshiba I used lasted incredibly long, and is from when laptops were just coming out, when a gig of memory was amazing. It's still working just fine, if not a little on the slow side these days. =D

HP has excellent customer service, I got my computer repaired after a friend of mine was a little rough with it and dislodged several internal components. I had it back within the week, entirely repaired. I've found the computers to be reliable, if not a little lopsided in what they provide. My current HP laptop has 4 gigs of ram, but an absolutely crap video card. Unfortunately, with laptops your major sacrifice will be your graphics card.

I've found the keyboards on HP laptops to fall apart a little easier than your average keyboards, they seem to be very lightly attached and come off (although I do tend to strike my keyboard like it had insulted my mother).

Most of these forums aren't dead. You might get a lot of responses in Loungin', but the truly stellar responses typically are found in the quieter forums, and they are the ones most likely to help! =)

My mother has worked with Dells and says that she doesn't like them as much as the HP computers the family has had in the past. She works in a lab so she's fairly computer literate, and finds most alternatives she has used to be better.

I'd go with either toshiba or HP, HP more so than toshiba. I find the overall build quality to be better and "sturdier" They're solid but not heavy solid... well some models are heavy but I hope you know what I mean.
What's your budget and Main uses for the laptop? You may be able to find a good one from Asus, Lenovo, or many of the other good brands for cheaper than you would find a dell or hp.

Really, most laptops are pretty much built the same. Anything that happens software wise (windows messes up, virus, etc) is all from the user. The biggest differences between laptop brands would be how well it is built and what they look like.

I've had my HP laptop for almost 2 years now, and I carry it with me in my backpack a lot. Its been dropped, had a few pounds of books/papers on it and thrown around a bit and nothing has broken on it.

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Is Acer a good laptop brand by any chance?

yeah theyre decent.

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It was dead the last time I asked a question here. I have yet to recieve a response.

how long ago was this?