Looking for a new laptop.

[Frank O' Phile]

Evening All,

Having got rid of my faulty HP lappy, I been looking for it's replacement.
Having browsed every website I can think of, I think I may have found the one that ticks most boxes.

This one. Opinions from our resident panel of experts please.

Is there anything better out there?

 

[flango]

I personally have had nothing but grief with Toshiba laptops, but I know others on here swear by them, faulty inverters faulty screens overheating problems, customer support and after sales service is none existent.

Now got 2 x Dell laptops 1 x Samsung and 1 x Fujisu Siemens, no problems at all with any of these the Dell's have been bullet proof,Samsung is new so too early to comment but so far so good, Fujitsu Siemens replaced the last of our Toshiba Satellite pro's which fried.

I would never buy a Toshiba product again, just MHO, experience and 2p worth though

 

[wemorgan]

This one. Opinions from our resident panel of experts please.

Is there anything better out there?

From a brief search that looks to be a good deal.
It comes with 64bit Windows 7 too.

EDIT: I presume you've seen these Dell Inspiron 15. A bit more RAM and HD for £20 more than yours.
Much of a muchness really.
http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/p...dhs&cid=HDLaptop&cs=ukdhs1&dgc=IR&lid=NHP_BB1

 

[Olivier]

I had a toshibe Tecra M5. it fried 3 hard drives and a power supply, all under the 3 years garanty. I wouldn't get another laptop without 3 years garanty because of this.
Toshiba was keeping the machine too long for repairs few times but most of the time the customer service was good.
Having a dell inspiron 1720 now, good machine , the toshiba was having a feeling of better build though. The inspiron look good but feel cheap.
Olivier

 

[A210AMG]

Hello

Complete opposite to flanaial,

I currently personally have 3 Toshiba laptops, I also buy them as standard machines for work.

We get a 3yr warranty and the business machines are a better quality than retail however. Current love my little Netbook NB200 (but would not want to use it everyday due to 10" screen). After saves / service etc all great but again probably different as deal from a business and have direct contact.

So I'm happy with them.


However loads of makes available for pretty cheap costs. Around £400 should get you one that does everything a standard user would need. Look for as big a hard drive as poss, as much ram as poss (or at least upgradable), and a good clock speed / processor. I tend to stick with Intel but like most things all are pretty good now.

edit..actually looked at your link....

The one you have seen at that price is pretty good to be honest. Have a quick look at currys / commet website see if there are any deals, also PC world. If you can wait it might be worth waiting for Christmas, always good offers. A nice Sony viao was £399 last Christmas. Oh and not long ago Play had a 17" screen version (which is what I use) for £399.

 

[timskemp]

Like most manufacturers, Toshiba have two lines of laptops. The Satellite / Equium ranges are made by contract manufacturers to a budget, the Tecra / Satellite pro / Portege ranges are made to a better standard.

Dell, HP and Sony also do the same. Basic rule is if it's a desktop laptop it's not so important, but a road warrior will want robust, quality at any cost.

For me that means a Toshiba Tecra, I have lots of them that I look after and they rarely fail. Not cheap though.

My recommendations go like this - spend 300 quid? Go to tesco. Spend up to 500? Get a special from Laptops Direct or similar, spend more? Tecra, Vaio, HP Business Laptop, Fujitsu Siemens or similar.

Dell are the wildcard. Good machines, well priced, but customer service has gone out of the window.

 

[lil.smartie]

Sony IF made in Japan everytime for me. Made in China = walk a mile!

Kate

 

[Frank O' Phile]

BAck when I first started my search, I spotted a good spec laptop on ebuyer. After I had looked around elsewhere they had all gone. So I looked everywhere and thought I liked the one in my first post but these never appeared to be in stock.

So I was slowly driving Mrs O' mad, 'Have you bought one yet? What wrong with that one you're looking at now?'

And finally (after many days\weeks) I did my daily check on ebuyer and found the first one I had looked at. Only one in stock as an exdisplay maodel.

Dual core celeron.
4Gb ram
250Gb hard drive
gl4 video
15.4" screen
card reader
dvd\rw
3 USB
webcam

blah, blah blah, ships with no operating system.
£302. free shipping.

It arrived this morning.

I think I saved about £100 with all my procastination and phaffing about but it's worth it.

 

[IanA2]

I personally have had nothing but grief with Toshiba laptops........

I would never buy a Toshiba product again, just MHO, experience and 2p worth though

Me too....Years ago I swore by them....have had five in all I think, and each one just got worse.....changed almost exclusively to high end HP's....not looked back