Can anyone on here build me a laptop?

**JacksColdSweat** · 24th April 2009, 07:46

http://www.pricespy.co.nz/cat_22.html

Cheapest places to buy branded gear...

**Lias** · 24th April 2009, 15:55

You can buy customized laptops from various places, but expect to pay an arm and a leg, and possibly a kidney.

One example would be http://www.alienware.co.nz/ who specialise in gaming laptops.. Their starting price is not far short of 5 grand and goes up rapildy from there.

Toshiba is "the old faithful" of laptop brands, you cant really go wrong there. Asus are relative newcomers but seem to be doing well. HP's higher end/business offerings are generally pretty good but stay away from their budget home gear. Lenono/IBM are pretty much in the same boat as HP, cheap stuff isnt that great but the pricier stuff is good.

IMHO avoid Dell, avoid Acer, avoid any other brand not listed above.

**jim.cox** · 24th April 2009, 16:22

Originally Posted by Lias

Toshiba is "the old faithful" of laptop brands, you cant really go wrong there.

Asus are relative newcomers but seem to be doing well.

HP's higher end/business offerings are generally pretty good but stay away from their budget home gear.

Lenono/IBM are pretty much in the same boat as HP, cheap stuff isnt that great but the pricier stuff is good.

IMHO avoid Dell, avoid Acer, avoid any other brand not listed above.

I concur

Lias has it pretty much right I reccon.

Or you could go radical and score a MacIntoy...

Personally I went for an IBM tablet off RetardMe - and I'm lovin it

**Gremlin** · 24th April 2009, 18:18

The brands are always a hard one...

Toshiba, we've had some hits and misses, HP as you say, avoid the cheap stuff, the mid to high end is quite reliable indeed. Dell, hit and miss, generally miss.

Acer is an odd one, can be quite crap indeed, yet my own lappy for work, a Travelmate 290 has been amazing. 3+ years, abused etc still boots as fast, if not faster than modern stuff. Well, ok, the hard drive, ram is upgraded, and the OS has been rebuilt a couple of times. Sure enough, the replacement model for it... crap again.

**Anarkist** · 24th April 2009, 18:23

Get a MacBook and use OSX, or put Windows on if that thought scares you.
MacBooks are fucking sexy these days. Expensive, mind you.

**lb99** · 24th April 2009, 20:02

awesome responses, cheers guys...

I have homebuilt pcs coming out my ears (mostly made from stuff others throw away) they are like meccanno to me.

However, I have no knowledge at all about laptops (nor do I care), but the wife seems to really want one (she's been mentioning it casually for a couple of years) so I guess I should aim for some points........

I will check out some links, thanks

**smokeyging** · 24th April 2009, 22:16

Originally Posted by Gremlin

The brands are always a hard one...

Toshiba, we've had some hits and misses, HP as you say, avoid the cheap stuff, the mid to high end is quite reliable indeed. Dell, hit and miss, generally miss.

Acer is an odd one, can be quite crap indeed, yet my own lappy for work, a Travelmate 290 has been amazing. 3+ years, abused etc still boots as fast, if not faster than modern stuff. Well, ok, the hard drive, ram is upgraded, and the OS has been rebuilt a couple of times. Sure enough, the replacement model for it... crap again.

I too have an Acer laptop and haven't had a problem with it....must have been made on a Wednesday.....

**Lias** · 25th April 2009, 15:09

Acer _can_ make a good product, it's just its a fairly rare thing, and their aftermarket support is utter utter crap, even for multimillion dollar purchase corproate customers. It's even worse for home users.