I have a Gateway laptop with these specs:
1.6GHz CPU, 1GB DDR2 RAM, 40GB HD, wireless card, 14" screen, etc…
I want to sell it or trade it for a better laptop. Whats a good brand and model to go with for someone who listens to music, watches movies, and plays the occasional game?
What’s a good replacement laptop?
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Which laptop you get depends mostly on what you can afford.
Basically choose a brand and buy the most expensive you can afford.
Some brands, in pretty much order of what I suggest, best first:
Apple Mac:
Great computer, some say over priced, does not run windows (though it can if you have a windows install disk). So unless you install windows on it, any software you already have wont work. Great customer service (I’ve heard in the US (where I’m not from) you can take you laptop into an apple store and if the problem is software related (ie you dont need new parts) then the repair is free! My own experience in my own country with apple has also been fanastic)
Toshiba
Runs windows, often similar cost to a Mac, great customer service. Also includes awesome bloatware, like facial recognition login
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HP
A very popular brand, though apparently not that good for customer service. Many people have been very happy with their purchase. This is a good mid-range computer.
Asus
Also popular and regarded as a reasonably good computer. Not to be confused with Acer
Acer
Getting down the list a bit, generally a good computer for the price you pay, but not the most recommended brand.
Dell
Never, ever, ever. The laptops are probably fine, however, my friend bought one and six months later it died. That’s not a problem, it was a faulty hard drive and these things can happen to all computers. The problem was that a 6 month old computer dying is the companies responsibility to fix (in nearly all western countries there is at least a minimum by law warranty period of 1 year). My friend email Dell. No reply. A few months later she emailed them again. No reply. After doing this a few more times, she finally got a reply telling her to call an international toll number. Screw that. She politely asked them to call her. They never did. One day, after a drop or a bump or a solar flare, the laptop suddenly began working again. She has not heard back from Dell at all.
Moral of the story: Dell = Bad. Mac or Toshiba = good. Others = good enough.