Headed to college. Laptop help?

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by EHaskins

The advantage of business class machines is you will usually get support either in this country, or at least from someone who's first language is english,

Heh, just a bit offtopic- but you would be surprised to learn how many people in India learn English first, and speak it better than many people here.

I too would highly recommend a Lenovo though, they're very robust machines and can handle pretty much whatever software you plan to throw at them. No experience with HPs though.

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

I too would highly recommend a Lenovo though, they're very robust machines and can handle pretty much whatever software you plan to throw at them. No experience with HPs though.

HPs have generally annoyed me. Inferior build quality and below average customer service.

[EHaskins]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

HPs have generally annoyed me. Inferior build quality and below average customer service.

Are you refering to consumer or business machines?

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by EHaskins

Are you refering to consumer or business machines?

I imagine that he's referring to a consumer one. I use a HP G60 at home, and it runs fine (disregarding Vista...no free upgrade for me ]: ) and is somewhat durable, but I can imagine that it would completely falter and die if I were to try and run Inventor or LabView on it and bring it to robotics.

What I've found to be the case with HPs is that they heat up...really fast. I've only had the computer on for fifteen minutes, and it's already a lot hotter than most people would consider normal. My laptop is also really hard to keep clean :/ And yet, the Dell something-or-other-laptop that my family has that is 5 years old often runs better after it's started up, and it has endless amounts of games and programs installed on it. Dell > HP