Wanting to buy laptop pc

Snake Rogers · Post by **Snake Rogers** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 5:32 pm

Hey guys,
I am looking at buying a lap top for personal use and for work.
Needs to be able to run turbo cad.

Who has the best reliable make?
How much would I need to spend?

Viking · Post by **Viking** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 5:56 pm

I owned a Dell that I bought in UK till it got fried in lightning strike.
Dell's offered more, but their Call center is Aussie based over here, and their customer service not the best, plus nowhere to take it to complain, as they only sell online, or cheapies at Warehouse. They get someone local to service but ya get charged to get it picked up.

Toshiba, Acer or HP/Compaq all seem reasonable and come with mobile versions of Ati or Nvidia cards. Dunna how much you'd need to spend, but 2G should get ya something ya could game a bit with too.

Noon416 · Post by **Noon416** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 6:42 pm

What's your budget? Will affect the range of choices greatly.

BAZZIL · Post by **BAZZIL** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 8:00 pm

If it's for Cad, see if there are any around with Nvidias Quadro cards in them (not sure if they make them for laptops tho) but those cards have stuff in them specifcaly for doing cad type work.

Other than that, just get a well known brand, find one u like and search on the internet for the name of that computer and put in keywords like "problems" "issues" etc to see if anyone else has had issues with the particular laptop u r looking at.

Those sags Typhewn and Hippy might have some ideas for u as they sell a few laptops.

Snake Rogers · Post by **Snake Rogers** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 8:16 am

About 2 and a half i guess.

I would like a big wide screen, but bigger the screen more money you pay.

Typhoon · Post by **Typhoon** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 5:21 pm

Viking wrote:but their Call center is Aussie based over here

I thought there support centre was in India now, and there sales centre was in Oz.

Agent X20 · Post by **Agent X20** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:31 pm

Typhoon wrote:
Viking wrote:but their Call center is Aussie based over here
I thought there support centre was in India now, and there sales centre was in Oz.

When I called em ages ago to order a replacement battery, they couldn't help me because it was Chinese New Year in Malaysia...

Viking · Post by **Viking** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:46 am

Agent X20 wrote:
Typhoon wrote:
Viking wrote:but their Call center is Aussie based over here
I thought there support centre was in India now, and there sales centre was in Oz.
When I called em ages ago to order a replacement battery, they couldn't help me because it was Chinese New Year in Malaysia...

Wherever it is, its not NZ.

Typhoon · Post by **Typhoon** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:37 am

From experence, the 2 best brands are Toshiba and Sony, and I doubt anyone here would disagree.

Many have good 2d/3d cards for Cad, what is most important is CPU and Memory. Core Duo, or Core2Duo, and a minimum of 1GB.

Stay well away from Retail models like Presario and Packard Bell.

A bonus with the Sony VAIO's are they come standard with Dual Layer DVD Writers and Adobe Premier if you want to do video editing and production as a side line. New models are just arriving, and they look very swish, and most include Nvidia Cards.

Ugmo · Post by **Ugmo** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:45 am

I have to agree with Typhoon, I'm now working in a storeroom at the biggest noel leeming store in Christchurch and get to check out all the stuff as it comes in. The VAIO notebooks seem to be always flying out the door as soon as the come in, I myself am looking at one for the partner so I can get mine back lol

BAZZIL · Post by **BAZZIL** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 12:27 pm

Viking wrote:
Agent X20 wrote:
Typhoon wrote: I thought there support centre was in India now, and there sales centre was in Oz.
When I called em ages ago to order a replacement battery, they couldn't help me because it was Chinese New Year in Malaysia...
Wherever it is, its not NZ.

It's in Malaysia

But I think alot of Indians work there