Originally Posted by
BAMF
There is not even a hint of truth to that.
HPs are good laptops. There is nothing wrong with Dell's business class stuff, I dunno about their cheapo lines. And Toshiba is the fucking bomb.
Thats the thing,.. to get a good Dell she will need a business model and they start at $1200+ but are not much better then the $600 - $800 models from some of the other companies.
I'm more of a desk top guy. I am A++ certified. If I look at what specific hardware is inside of a laptop then I can feel safe and give my personal advice. But I am not that up to date on the laptops. I know a little more then the average person,.. but for someone that deals with them on a day to day basis,.. perhaps even a well informed salesman,.. they will know more then I do about the specific models.
HP/Compaq, Dell and especially IBM used to be notorious for using propitiatory API signatures inside the bios that would only allow certain hardware to be used as upgrade/replacement parts. For example,.. the early IBM's would only work with a Connors hard drive,.. then later only a Maxtor. They had contracts with hynix to imbed their memory so only IBM rebranded hynix modules would work. Dell was doing this up until recently,.. and I think they still are. Acer bought out Gateway,.. and for anyone that has ever owned a Gateway anything will know they were made with the cheapest of everything. Dell will use the slowest 667mhz DDR2 chips on boards design for 800mhz DDR2.
You can have a slower computer perform better and function more robustly and respond faster then a much more expensive system just by having faster (Not always more) memory and a fast hard drive. The hard drive is the slowest part of any computer. Bottling necking a fast computer with a 5400 RPM SATA1 hdd to a system vs a 7200 RPM SATA 300mb/s drive is like night and day when it come to boot up, shut down, recovering from sleep mode, accessing the memory swap on the hdd,.. all of it effects over all system performance. A laptop when used for what she needs it for doe not need a high end CPU. A simple 1.8ghz Core 2 Duo or even a slower Celeron can appear as fast as a 3ghz quad core desk top system when combine with the right parts. Games, video rendering, or anything else that requires heavy CPU and memory loads will be slower. But for day to day net use you would not notice a difference.
Hurst