Favorite laptop?

[fatbuckRTO]

Originally Posted by EpyonXero

NMCI is a virus.

Agreed. My favorite part of NMCI? The Navy requires that all personnel, even reservists, have access to their NMCI accounts at all times. Seeing as no business or internet cafe owner in his right mind would ever allow you to load that bloated, fetid crap on one of his computers, that equates to the Navy requiring its reserve personnel to buy laptops. At their own expense.

At first I boycotted (silently). But then a friend took over as my section leader, and since the command was requiring him to require us to have it, I tried to save him some grief and loaded it. From day one till I was finally out and able to erase that crap from my hard drive, my computer did not perform properly.

I don't know how the contract for NMCI came about, but I hope some admiral or SECNAV and his friends got obscenely rich over it. That way, at least somebody would have benefitted from it...

[Homeslice]

Scratch the Lenovo....it looks like a 1990's IBM, and according to notebookreview.....

This screen has poor color reproduction - colors look dull and unimaginative. Black levels aren't deep and appear slightly grayish. But the biggest problem especially for business users is the low resolution; 1366x768 doesn't cut it for multitasking between two windows and too much scrolling is required in web pages, documents - pretty much everywhere.

[pauldun170]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

Scratch the Lenovo....it looks like a 1990's IBM, and according to notebookreview.....

Have you taken a look at HP ProBooks?

[pauldun170]

Are you close to a Microcenter? http://www.microcenter.com/

[pauldun170]

Keep in mind that no matter what Laptop you get, you can always dress it up
http://www.ebay.com/sch/sis.html?_nk...kin+Cover+Face
http://www.amazon.com/Hello-Kitty-De.../dp/B005CKN23A

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by pauldun170

Have you taken a look at HP ProBooks?

Dunno about ProBooks. At work I have an "EliteBook 8440p", and it's OK I guess, pretty low-noise.

But like every HP I've owned, docking/undocking often crashes it. Also the USB ports randomly stop recognizing devices, forcing a reboot.

[Cutty72]

I like my Toshiba, and the wife has had good luck with hers as well.
Not a fan of personal use Dell's. Work uses them, but has tech support available 24-7 to fix them too.

[njchopper87]

I have a Dell Inspiron something or other running in the other room. It's been running great, 1440x900 resolution, and it could handle FFXI back in the day. The only thing that sucks is the battery died after ~3 years. It also survived my dog (lab) stepping on it several times during the move to SC. I got it in 2006.

I haven't really been keeping up with laptops, but I heard Lenovo is one of the better brands (at least last year, anyway).

Edit.. it's an inspiron laptop.. not latitude.. not like it matters since you're looking more for brand

[pauldun170]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

Dunno about ProBooks. At work I have an "EliteBook 8440p", and it's OK I guess, pretty low-noise.

But like every HP I've owned, docking/undocking often crashes it. Also the USB ports randomly stop recognizing devices, forcing a reboot.

What OS?
My last two work laptops have been elitebooks and all the issues on have been caused by the work xp image they load on them. Clean win7 install and they run great.

[pauldun170]

Originally Posted by njchopper87

I have a Dell Latitude something or other running in the other room. It's been running great, 1440x900 resolution, and it could handle FFXI back in the day. The only thing that sucks is the battery died after ~3 years. It also survived my dog (lab) stepping on it several times during the move to SC. I got it in 2006.

I haven't really been keeping up with laptops, but I heard Lenovo is one of the better brands (at least last year, anyway).

Recently replaced the battery in our pavilion with an aftermarket battery from a shop off amazon. Was about 40 bucks for high capacity battery.