I am getting close to needing a new laptop, I have had hp's in the past and been pretty happy with them, with only a couple exceptions.



1) the batteries go to **** in fairly short time, less than a year.



2) After about 3 years the reason i am needing a new one is the power connection is ****. I took it apart, resoldered it to the board and it is still quite tricky and getting annoying, not sure i want to buy another adapter and risk it being something else.



3) Hard drive died on one, however i must admit hp was lightning fast on getting it fixed, within 4 days we had the laptop back with a new hd.



Soooooo, am i going to find something better or are these fairly common issues?

I havent had a problem like that with my toshiba. Its 2 years old now batt is still the sam as always. No problem with connections. Only thing that went wrong was the whole water on keyboard thing and eventualy after having it ride in my car the hard drive went out. The dvd drive broke when it fell once. All that was fixed under warranty in a week.

my roomate has a sony, it kicks much ass. i'll get the model # when i get home

every professor at the college i went to had a toshiba, my gf is thinkin about that or a dell, and most of the computer guru's at my work run toshiba.



don't know good they are, but it seems that most professionals are using them.

i've heard a lot of good about toshiba, pretty reluctant about dell they use crappy components

i built dell and toshiba systems identical to each other on the websites.. i get an employee discount through my company with dell, so i factored that in as well..



dell was 300-400 hundred bucks cheaper for a faster machine.. but then again, i would not buy a dell again. never had a prob with my old one, but i enjoy building em (desktops.. not labtops)

I have a dell that ive been using and taking all over the place with me for the past 2 1/2 years, and it still is working great, even for programs like AutoCAD 05 and Solidworks. The only thing that ever broke was the disk drive, it wouldnt pop out, and that was replaced under warantee

i have a fujistu.

Only laptop still made in Japan.

3 Yr Warranty.

Extensive testing on all models (they do lid pressure testing, socket connection testing, etc,etc)

Feature packed.

I just got a sony. I ******* love this thing, the screen is soo nice.



i got the fj series

i loathed my old sony, maybe they have gotten better.