On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 11:13 +0530, Rony wrote:
Krishnakant wrote:
On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 00:06 +0530, Mehul Ved wrote:
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Lynus Vaz lynusvaz@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, all of you, for your help and advice. I was just looking to avoid paying for windows, which I'll never use, anyway. I'm basically looking for a good machine, and don't mind trying out the preloaded distro: it'll be replaced soon, anyway. I'll do some research online first, as you suggested before buying one.
What are your requirements? Acer Aspire 4736 seems like a really good laptop to me especially at the price range. And that it supports ubuntu well would mean that most distros should work fine.
Also in general Thinkpads are good but that also depends on the budget. At the given price range and the respective specs which Mehul investigated, the one he suggestes would look very tempting to me at least.
Avoid Lenovo and Sony. Lenovo is no way near the old IBM quality.
Go for Acer if you want value for money. Dell Studio 15 if you want multimedia performance. HP Pavilion if you don't want Acer or Dell.
I think lenovo got their name spoilt with idea pads. Thinkpads though are still at least 90% as good as the ibm thinkpads. Except a few things, the specs, arketecture and structure of thinkpad has not changed. And why would they change? they are still a bit costly than the other laptops and Lenovo got the readymade reputation for those machines. That's why probably they created the idea pad series for cheep alternatives. I recently bought a thinkpad for rs 40,000 and its almost the same like the one I am using for last 2 years. One of my colligues and member of this list got an idea pad and she knows it is not as good. Some people say it looks typically "china made ". Anusha, I know you are red with furi at me after reading that line *smile*
Happy hacking. Krishnakant.