What laptop do you own?

Would you recommend it to others?

msi Stealth i7. Great in every way except battery life (less than three hours if it's working hard). And the lousy keyboard -- but I use an external one most of the time anyway. Great touch pad. It's been really reliable and I'd give it a decent recommendation if you need something moderately fast with good graphics.

hp something or other with an Athlon processor. Used for field work. Runs forever on a charge. Best $279 I ever spent on a computer. It's astonishingly good if it's all you need. But it's NOT fast.

Ancient Dell M4700 i7. Still hanging in there. It's always been great and absolutely reliable, been through a couple of hard drives and a couple of batteries, but that's to be expected given how long I've had the beastie. I still like but it's stuck at Windows 7, so its utility is limited now. It's also HEAVY and bulky to drag around.

Lenovo ThinkPad i5. Not great -- at least mine wasn't. Least reliable thing I've owned even before the lid wouldn't open one day. Hinge broken. They claimed it was "abuse". No warranty and not close to being worth the repair cost, because apparently, you usually break the screen getting it apart enough to replace the stupid hinge. I understand they fixed this problem in newer machines, but I'd still be hesitant.

Unlearn · 41-45, M

@FrozenWasteland Thanks for the elaborate response. I agree with most of what you've said. MSI is also known for hinge problems. I was considering trying out Lenovo but have been warned against it by several people. I think I will go with Dell XPS or Latitude. Any thoughts on ASUS? It has got mixed reviews.

FrozenWasteland · 61-69, M

@Unlearn I hadn't heard of msi hinge issues. Mine has certainly been fine and I move it around a lot (touch wood).

My main desktop machine is msi (motherboard and graphics card) and it's been fine so I kind of trust their quality in general. Having said that, the machine is a little flaky on startup -- takes half of forever to boot every once in a while -- but I expect that's more Windows just messing around than anything hardware related -- maybe it's not loving some of the old software that loads at startup on this machine. I almost never shut the thing off, so I haven't taken the time to figure out what's going on.

My son has an ASUS -- a few years old, i7. Good performance, not outstanding reliability, at least on his, but ok. Not sure what model it was. It's gone through a hard drive (maybe not a big surprise -- it was a spinny drive and he's hard on the machine physically), a fan and a keyboard.

I've had a bunch of ASUS motherboards over the years (no complaints) and am currently using ASUS monitors on my desktop (again, no complaints) so I like ASUS stuff in general. Just never had an ASUS laptop.

WanderlustCat · 36-40, M

I work in IT, id never actually tell someone what laptop to purchase. I would ask what they intended to do with it and then give them some things to look for. I highly recommend they go try one if possible as if they hate the keyboard feel it doesn’t matter how good the laptop is.

Unlearn · 41-45, M

@WanderlustCat I too work in IT...

Northwest · M

I have 3 MacBook Pros. Two with Intel silicon, and one with M2 silicon.

I have also have an HP laptop, that I use every once in a while, and a high end Intel silicon laptop that I use as a Linux server.

bluehead46

@Northwest of course you do, bullshit

bluehead46

I Own a Hp Stream 11 inch laptop, it's small but has 4gb Ram and 64Gb hard drive. Not the most powerful but was not expensive and does everything i need, plus it can fit in my rucksack when i go travel. Highly recommended.

Unlearn · 41-45, M

@bluehead46 I don't think it will cut it for me. I prefer high performance laptops...

bluehead46

@Unlearn it all depends on what you need, I needed something small to travel with, it has no lag and does everything i need, unless your gaming i doubt something bigger with more power would be noticeably different

Unlearn · 41-45, M

@bluehead46 I agree! It depends on what we want to do with it.

Longpatrol · 31-35, M

Lenovo T490s. Preferred the quality when IBM was in charge but its ok I guess. It plays CS and RS and FC5

Unlearn · 41-45, M

@Longpatrol Never owned a Lenovo laptop. By quality, are you referring to the build quality?

Longpatrol · 31-35, M

@Unlearn less prone to overheating, battery life was decent. This is a newer laptop with supposedly a better battery but it's still done in an hr and a half.

Northwest · M

@Longpatrol IBM used a Chinese company to manufacture their Lenovo laptops. IBM did very little in terms of design. The BIOS, possibly, came from IBM (but it's likely that the Chinese company did it), and the OS came from Microsoft.

IBM finally ended up selling the laptop business to the Chinese company in 2005. I had a couple of Lenovo laptops over the years.

Venturist

What are you going to use it for?

Unlearn · 41-45, M

@Venturist It will be for regular use. I am no gamer, neither do I edit videos. Yet I want a high-performance laptop.

Venturist

@Unlearn lenovo legion 7i has been good to me. Dont get a laptop with an AMD processor they suck. Intel i7 minimum. I prefer nvidia graphic cards. Dont get the inregrated cpu/graphics card bullshit. Also 16gb ram minimum with a solid state drive.