Miscellaneous laptop discussions : Sony, Toshiba or Dell?

Dell Support Rocks

Can't comment on Sony or Toshiba. Never had either. But I do have two Dell laptops. Dell support, in both sales and service, is EXCELLENT!

(NT) See post #12

Why not consider a Micron?

Do yourself a favor and take a look at Micron laptops. You might pay a bit more upfront.. but their technical support is beyond compare and is located in the United States.. not outsourced.

I've done technical support at a community college and we had the most trouble with the faculties Toshiba laptops, 2nd most troublesome was the Dells and last place was HP. The school unfortunately was taking lowbids.. so they didn't buy Micron. Big mistake.

Hope you get a great machine whatever you chose. We just bought our first Micron laptop based on a workhorse Micron desktop that we've had for almost 8 years. It just keeps going and going and going.. even with 2 teens using it.

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You work for toshiba dont you?

FACT if you looked up what we were talking about, youd see we were talking about faulty systems, not something that just randomly goes wrong which is expected. Seriously, do at least a little research. Did you even read any of the other posts in here?

Fact:

...Learn how to spell, so maybe people might consider what you have to say is worth while.

Dude, we all know computers break. The fact is, that customer support is not totally equal when dealing with many major brand companies, period -- and now-a-days with laptops becoming so mainstream, support is very important to everyone from the novice user to the power gamer who spent 3000$ on his new rig.

"I hate it when Customers attack a company for a bad experance. When you look at it mathematically calculate in how many pepole perchese systems from company X. And how many of them have issues."

Exactly. It turns out, many companies have more issues than others. Go search the boards and you'll see stuff like "HP-this" and "Alienware-that." It's a plain fact, computer builds are different when dealing with different companies. To use a recent example, why is it certain laptops will have a reoccurring problem with the power jack soldered to the motherboard? Is it a coincidence that they were all the same model and made by the same company and all the users abused them the same way? not likely. More than likely is that they were made inferior by the main company.

I could go on, but your post just isn't worth it. Do some reading...please...and I don't mean just on computers. Literacy = good thing.

Avoid Toshiba

After repeated problems I was tod to replace it by buying another Toshiba. Toshiba cusotmer service is worse than Dell's. That is hard to believe I know.

I vote for HP.

And the winner is....?

Sony, by far. I really like the fact that their customer support is here in the U.S. so you won't have to deal with Sahib reading a script back to you.

Plus, I've been pretty impressed with their SZ series so far, but it will cost you more.

My second choice would be HP business laptops. They're more solid than the Pavilion series and you can still get Windows XP Pro loaded on them instead of the trouble-plagued Vista.