Im currently using the y560p from lenovo. not a bad laptop at all, I ran scII on ultra. I recommend the y570. The ASUS g74sx-(what ever submodel) handles games quite well at high HD resolution.

 

I might have to do that when she isn't around. lol!

 

I haven't had any problems with the 2 Toshiba laptops I own. The first one I bought cause the price was right. A Satellite 700 series, Heavy as all hell, but durable. Then bought a Protege for portability. It has an i5 processor so it's fast enough for what I need it for.

 

Maybe you got the fleet before they turned to crap. When I started college in 07 and needed to find a laptop, I had a hp dv6000 and my room mate had a toshiba satellite. Towards the end of the year, his plastic trimmings for the case and audio started falling apart and was flimsy as hell. My hp was still fine, cept it decided to die all at once and not deteriorate slowly. From what I noticed with other peoples laptops that they bought around school, build quality and design is still pretty flimsy and thats enough to turn me down as a customer.

 

Have owned my Satellite for over 3 years now. Not a SINGLE issue.

 

My Protege I could see falling apart. It's an ultraportable. 13" and weighs 3lbs. But it's so far managed to hold together against my 2 year old pulling on the screen and hitting keys. The Satellite took massive abuse from him. So maybe their durability improved over the years.

 

I have that dv6000 also i'm just upgrading and giving the dv6000 it to my mom since it still works pretty well for what she wants to doing. I'm pretty sure the dv6000 is slowly but surely deteriorating haha

 

Well actually there was a huge design flaw in the dv6000 and how the wireless card and video card were placed right next to each other, next to the touch pad. It got ultra hot and over heated, hot enough sometimes that it would burn, and fried the chips. Theres forums dedicated to these model lines because they are a factory defect but HP refuses to support their customers by accepting the defect. Theres sticky threads on how to take legal action towards HP too for those really wanting. It was a huge ordeal for ppl who owned those defected models back in the day. Thats when I completely boycotted HP.

 

I dont know, I still dont see it improving too much seeing that there are soo many mainstream econo-type laptops out there for the regular usage and now laptops are so much more affordable. Back in 05 or so, or when ever comp-usa was still around lol, toshiba was very top notch though. Then when I was ready to buy a laptop, they fell off and Im glad I didn't choose them. You're lucky you dont have a complaint, because it sucks spending a grand on a laptop and having it be a failure. I guess Im just a lot more picky about build quality with my machines. I mean when I was in Australia in their computer shops, I was trying to put together a desktop build for my nephew. I was checking out mother boards and asked if there is an actual pictorial of each product. They said not on the computer, but we can pull out the board from the inventory for you to check out; and that all the specs are listed on the computer, why would you need to see the design and layout of the mother board. That made me laugh, I guess they aren't as serious when building machines.

 

If you still need a laptop hit me up. I got one.

 

It's all good man, I am picking up a Lenovo Y480 from frys since my friend works there, he can hook me up. Thanks for the offer

 

Lenovo actually purchased IBM's personal computer division a few years back. IBM no longer makes laptop/notebook computers. That's not to say the quality has gone down as they still seem to get excellent reviews and are well regarded in the industry.

Lenovo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

-Brian

 

Will be grabbing a Lenovo Y480 some time this week, maybe the 570 if the price is right