Miscellaneous laptop discussions forum: Hp Or Dell?

But I have to be honest with you. Dell has lost their position as the number one pc manufacturer, to HP. The quality is not there anymore especially on the entrprise side, like servers. This has been occuring ever since the departure of Michael Dell and the advancement of Kevin Rollins, Dell just went down hill. But with the return of Michael Dell I truly believe that Dell will retake their place in the computer world ahead of HP.

Until that happens, I need to suggest HP. HP machines are very reliable and strong. They last and they are powerhouse pc's. I personally have become attached to HP since Dell dropped the ball. The quality is there and you get the most bang for your buck. Meaning that you get high end components which would shoot Dell laptop prices into the atmosphere, while with HP you get these great copmonents and you are at still near Dell's starting prices. Good Luck.

I had an HP ZV6000. It was an anchor and felt like I was carrying a locker full of chemistry books. It was an AMD-based system with 1gb of ram and dedicated video. It cost $1300 new. I recently sold that and bought a Dell Outlet Inspiron e1405. This thing is ridiculously fast, and after I formatted it to set it up just like I like it (w/o the drive-slowing Dell System Restore Partition), it rocks with it's Core 2 Duo CPU and 1gb of ram.

The one negative about this one is the integrated video, but I am going to move to 2gb of ram soon, and from everything I've read, that will basically allow the video card to work at the top end of its shared video range full time, and in addition to the other benefits to Windows with more ram, should help.

As for reliability, this one is rock solid. I was crashing once a week or more on the HP, mostly due to USB issues, such as with the webcam or a USB flash drive. The Dell hasn't crashed but once in the 8 weeks I have had it, and that was when the webcam (same one) wasn't even plugged in, so I know that wasn't causing the HP to die.

I have now bought 2 PC's (1 laptop / 1 desktop) from Dell's Outlet store, and my parents have one too. The previously ordered new ones are the best bet, since they were ones people ordered, had confingured, and maybe shipped, and sent back without activating the EULA (Windows / Dell licenses). Going that route saves you enough over the same HP new that you can go to Newegg and buy a 2GB RAM kit and still get a good warranty on the Dell (I recommend the 2 year Complete Care...in case you drop a can of soda on the keyboard like I've done once...not pretty...and would have been tragic w/o the warranty!).

I got a Dell Inspiron E1505 this last May and I still love it. Performances are really good and also the quality.

Running Vista Ultimate like a charm on it.

toting it around often, the 14.1" is a better choice. Not just because of the weight but the smaller size improves handling (like small vs large car AND laptops don't have power steering!).