1. Three friends with macbooks: two had issues that required mail in or take in repairs within 1 year, the third died completely at 2.5 years 2. Two family members with Toshiba: Both overheated at various times and have been repaired at the cost of hundreds of $$$. 3. Two friends with HP: one was ok, the other was exchanged 3 times within the first year due to sundry issues. My dad's corporate Compaq is just fine though. 4. Family member with Asus...works ok, had no hardware issues 5. Nine Dells owned by family, friends and myself. 2 had a key or two pop off....replaced free overnight. One was dropped off a shelf and had a cracked screen, screen was replaced the next due thanks to accidental coverage. But no other hardware issues really with those nine dells.
Call me a Dell fan boy, but amazing as it may seem, my friends and family are happy with the Dell laptops I sold them. This is only MY experience, and I'm know there are Dell horror stories, just as there are plenty of happy Mac, HP, and Toshiba users. I can't speak for Gateway or Sony...don't have enough personal experience.
My next laptop will be either a Dell, an Asus, or an MSI.
I dropped my PCworld sub this year. I got sick of their lackluster reviews and blatant Apple bias...not to say the MBP isn't a good laptop, but seriously, PCW wouldn't test a decent, widely available configuration of a competitor, well, enough said.
Interesting...it should blow an iMac out of the water with a desktop processor instead of a laptop processor...I wonder if you can get a better graphics card.
I think the reason why Dell is having so many issues with the Inspiron & XPS M1330 models is the different colors. As noted here & on www.direct2dell.com, they are having issues with the painting. Granted, they are a multi-billion dollar company who SHOULD know how to prepare for this, but let's face it: Dell hasn't been "innovative" is a long time. They have never, to my knowledge, done the multi-color case designs. Their cases have all been identical, drab, and plain FOREVER!
The long delays on Latitudes, and even on "vanilla" Inspiron models, is due to LCD shortages. Hasn't anyone been paying attention to tech news?
Windows MovieMaker does a better job than iMovie8...and Vista's HD MovieMaker. No matter, I'm a Premiere/Encore boy myself...No, I'm not an Apple hater, but c'mon, no timeline? No fade/track-volume...chapters? Does it even blend?
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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1. Three friends with macbooks: two had issues that required mail in or take in repairs within 1 year, the third died completely at 2.5 years
2. Two family members with Toshiba: Both overheated at various times and have been repaired at the cost of hundreds of $$$.
3. Two friends with HP: one was ok, the other was exchanged 3 times within the first year due to sundry issues. My dad's corporate Compaq is just fine though.
4. Family member with Asus...works ok, had no hardware issues
5. Nine Dells owned by family, friends and myself. 2 had a key or two pop off....replaced free overnight. One was dropped off a shelf and had a cracked screen, screen was replaced the next due thanks to accidental coverage. But no other hardware issues really with those nine dells.
Call me a Dell fan boy, but amazing as it may seem, my friends and family are happy with the Dell laptops I sold them. This is only MY experience, and I'm know there are Dell horror stories, just as there are plenty of happy Mac, HP, and Toshiba users. I can't speak for Gateway or Sony...don't have enough personal experience.
My next laptop will be either a Dell, an Asus, or an MSI.