Haven't had a problem with the DELL xps I had and it endured 3 years on a ship. Now that it's getting old I'm thinking about a Toshiba or HP only because they seem to be priced better for the features. The only one I know to stay away from is Acer we have them at work and there's constantly something wrong with one of them.

 

I have 2 HP 17" laptops and they work good. The extended warranty is worth it's weight in gold.
Try to get one with XP and not Vista

 

I would love to find a computer that still comes with XP, vista sucks!!
Just built my home computer, you can get the XP OS on newegg.com for cheap

 

Guess what im on right now?

Santa came early

HP - Laptop with AMD Turion™ X2 Dual-Core Mobile Processor RM-70 - G60-125nr

 

It come with an OS cd, just in case you need to reinstall? Other than that, looks like a nice machine.

 

nice

 

thanks i havent looked in the box yet

i read one of the reviews and it said you have to burn your own back up disk ?

its going to take sometime to get use to this thing ive never had a laptop before

seems to be pretty cool

 

IDK, but I think you can only do 1 backup disc and that's it. So if it's the only way to reinstall/repair the system and it fails along the way, your stuck in the mud.

 

Im with Aaron here.. Ive had alot of laptops of all brands.. Toshiba, Dells (for work, I would never buy one) HP's, Compaq's, and a couple Sonys... out of them all the Toshiba was always the most reliable..

With HP, they are a great machine, but I dont like the recovery disc setup they have going..

DM.. BE SURE TO MAKE THOSE RECOVERY DISCS ASAP!!! and put them in a safe place where they cant be messed with and scratched..

and when my HP's and Toshiba and Sony dies this time.. Im going Apple..

Its a little known fact, but there are only a HANDFUL of viruses/adware/malware/spywares written for the Mac OS.. on the other hand, there are THOUSANDS written daily for windows based machines.. Linux is much more stable, its fluid, smoother, faster and more efficient.

 

The apples are a lot of $$ too ,

As for the back up , no disk but there a paper that says