Hi all, I have just started a Information Technology course and am
wanting to buy a laptop so that I can do my work wherever I go. Could
you suggest some reliable laptop brands?

On 12 Mar 2005 19:36:24 -0800, pelks@powerup.com.au (pelican) wrote:

>Hi all, I have just started a Information Technology course and am
>wanting to buy a laptop so that I can do my work wherever I go. Could
>you suggest some reliable laptop brands?

Go to a comparison site like cnet.com and look at which models are
right for you. That's FAR too general a question to answer with a few
models. It depends on whether weight is more important than features,
battery life, and on and on.

It appears that a7b4d0b0.0503121936.476d9c26@posting.google.com,
pelican <pelks@powerup.com.au> shook an Etch A Sketch before scribbling:
> Hi all, I have just started a Information Technology course and am
> wanting to buy a laptop so that I can do my work wherever I go. Could
> you suggest some reliable laptop brands?

Buy an Apple.  That will annoy your instructors and be good for a few laughs
once you head out into the field to do work.

Just kidding, obviously.  Just about any computer line that one person
recommends will draw equally negative comments from someone else.  I
personally use a Fujitsu as my primary laptop, but in general I find
HP/Compaq to be reliable.  It mostly boils down to what you are willing to
spend.

In buying a laptop, there are two schools of thought.  I always suggest
buying the best unit you can afford at the time, and plan to hang on to it
as long as it's usable.  The other option is to pay as little as possible on
a machine that will "just do the job" and plan on upgrading sooner.  The
nice thing about laptops is that you can ALWAYS find someone that is happy
to take your old model.  In a corporate environment, there is a food chain
of laptops going from higher-ranking people (who often don't even need the
most powerful units) down to people who actually USE them.  In a home
setting, they're called hand-me-downs. ;)