Brand Name Laptops

I'm in a market for a laptop.  I'm not tech savy or laptop savy, so I asked my IT buddy which brand is good for a laptop?

He told me to get ASUS, HP, or Lenovo

Avoid Acers and Dell to a certain extent.

Thoughts?

The lower end ones all use the same cheap shit. The ones with the best track record is Sony.  You pay for that quality though.

If I had one I would avoid it would be Acer. The rest of them, just look for what's on sale.

Hey rockdog,

You want to buy a good laptop go to this website and punch in the specs you want and go with either an asus, hp, msi, possibly a dell depending on their prices,,

But I wouldn't buy  a sony because you're merely paying for their brand rather than their performance..

The Sony laptops are essentially the Macs of PCs; overpriced and overrated

ah heres the website

https://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=32&name=Laptops-Notebooks

 My work laptop is a HP & it's a POS...................just got a Toshiba L655 ( $450 @ Staples of all places) & it's been good so far. Couldn't beat the price (with the options it has) anywhere.

 I have a tech-savvy friend that swears by IBM/Lenova units......

can you wait another 4-6 months??? windows 8 should be very cool..if you cant and u must fuck with a shitty OS like windows7, get a lenovo or ASUS..just go to tom hardware and amazon wait around for a deal o the day type ad...pick up a decent laptop for for $400, something like 20-40% off MSRP

The geeks at Best Buy said Acer laptops are "Okay."

They recommended ASUS, Toshiba, and Lenovo.  They didn't have an opinion on HP's.  I really do need a new laptop right now because it is 6 years old.

My budget is 500....I saw a couple of nice Lenovo's laptops at best buy. What do you think about this Lenovo?

I got a nice ASUS laptop I haven't had one problem with it yet.  I bought it from best buy for like 450 or something.  I bought it around Christmas time, it does everything that I need.

 That Lenova has everything my Toshiba has........but it's $50 less.

 Where was it when I was looking? 

Themugg, go to staples and pricematch your laptop.

link didn't work

nevermind about the pricematch, I thought you bought the same laptop ast I did.  Brain fart there.

Stiln, link is working fine...It is the.Lenovo - IdeaPad B570.  I think it's a good deal for 400 dollars.  Get it before the price jumps.

nevermind about the pricematch, I thought you bought the same laptop ast I did.  Brain fart there.

Stiln, link is working fine...It is the.Lenovo - IdeaPad B570.  I think it's a good deal for 400 dollars.  Get it before the price jumps.

rockdog, are you talking about something like this?

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834146995

Stiln, it's actually a different model.   Here is the link for the Lenovo at best buy  The specs are almost the same for both. but the Lenovo at best buy has better specs overall. 

rockdog, Ok I see.. Your budget is 500, I did some research.. Although you're probably not using the laptop for any major web devolopment, or gaming, video producing, the laptop you linked was a very good deal. Infact I couldn't find too many other laptop less than 400 dollars but I found a few that were about the same specs:

2.0+ processing speed
500gbs
4 gbs of ram
and a 15.6" screen

The rest of the specs seems irrelevant right? Like sound card, video card, battery life, type of ram etc?

Check these out:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834214246

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230097

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230026

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834115994

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220879

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220879

I think I prefer the 14 inch. 

The 15-16 incher is too big.

I'm going to downgrade to a smaller size