magicguy

I purchased my laptop for around 6 months, the video card broke down. One day, I woke up in the morning with a great sunny day. I turned my laptop on and it wouldn't get into windows, so I proceeded with a system restore and it didn't fix the problem at all, the screen appeared to have some random color lines showing up on the screen. I decided to bring it to Best buy for the warrenty. By the time I get to best buy, there was a man in the line in front of me with the same problem. The time for the mantainence had taken him more than 2 weeks, with a result that best buy never sent out the laptop for him. The man kept complaining about their service, best buy finally agreed to refund him the full amount of the purchases which was $16xx. One important thing is that he had been using the laptop for over a year already, I was shocked on how best buy deal with a complain from a customer. Excuse me? after a year still get a full refund? Anyways, cut the out of topic speech. So finally its my turn in the line, I told them about my problem and as usual, send back to HP to replace this and that. 2 weeks After, I called back to get the most updated status of my laptop. They told me because of the volume of laptops they are experencing, it might take serveral weeks. SIR!!! Its been 2 weeks and now you telling me that it might take another few weeks of time to replace the damn crap thing? As a conclusion, don't fuxxing get HP ****s, and also bringing it back to best buy for mantainece most likey take the longest *** fuxxing time... F!!!

si_ponz

sorry to hear, that really sucks, what does everyone else reccommend as best laptops. I have a Dell from 2 years ago now, its a POS, i will never buy another Dell after this laptop. This is because i bought a desktop from them right before. they shipped it, we set it up, after 2 weeks nothing worked, lights would go on the computer box but nothing on the computer screen or anything, they said to send it back, we do and they sent us a new one. I then buy my laptop thinking ah why not good customer service...was i wrong. Same thing basically happened, but they wanted me to open up the laptop and start ******* around with shat in there. I told them i have no experience in doing so and dont feel comfortable, they proceeded to send me another laptop and i lost all my stuff stored. I was beyond pissed, never again :@

who has had a good laptop experience? which brands are best and recommended?

hula_balu

apple

loudsubz

any brand will have bad apples, its just a crap shoot really. Case in point, someone reccomended a BOSCH drill to me, I bought one and within month the chuck started to slip untill the point it would not drive in screws anymore. Sent it out and had the worst customer service ever.

Same goes for electronics. Some brands are better than others but you will not have a brand without any problems at all. My GF has a HP 17" laptop for over a year now ad it has run flawless even with Vista on it.

Cynikal.Mindset

HP are crap bottom line...I tell everbody this but nobody listens...dont buy Heaping Pile products

07Ex

Redeyelove

rofl @ anyone who give's Dell a penny

jqwik81

HP is garbage. My g/f labtop crashed 3 times. Same problem evertime. The only good thing is if it crashes 1 more time then she gets a new one from best buy. Never will buy HP again.

viper_2_4

Ya, I really haven't had good luck with HP consumer devices....

Although I didn't have good luck with Lenovo either...

LEITNER

apple...macbook ftw!!!

starboy869

apple is overpriced for what you get. imo Sure they're nice, but compared to a regular laptop it's pricey. Also it's possible install OS(whatever now) on most laptops now. Heck there's a place in the states where you can buy an hp, asus, compaq, etc with/or ready to install apple os.

IMO right now ASUS and Sony are really good laptops. Now Vista on the other hand.

Cynikal.Mindset

but apple machines "just work" plug something in and it works...they are expensive though but they dont need all the processing power that PCs need to do the same thing...but I will never fully convert to Mac from PC

Jay

iTrader: (1)

I love my hp laptop.

starboy869

Apple have a great laptop, but they also carry a lot of hype also.

ashtonp24

Never had a problem with HP laptops. I have 4 and they all work fine. I wouldn't doubt that any laptop you buy under $700 will give you problems

loudsubz

One thing that gets me is rating a laptop on OS problems. So many reviews I read about vista crashing and causing OS issues that have nothing to do with the laptop hardware at all. Put XP SP3 on there and it would be a diff story.

magicguy

HP has identified a hardware issue with certain HP Pavilion dv2000/dv6000/dv9000 and Compaq Presario V3000/V6000 series notebook PCs, and has also released a new BIOS for these notebook PCs, version F.39 for dv2000/V3000, and version F.3D for dv6000/dv9000/V6000
The following symptoms apply to the dv6000, dv9000 and v6000 series notebooks:

• The notebook does not detect wireless networks and the wireless adapter is not detected in the Device Manager.
• There is no video on the computer LCD panel or external monitor.
• The notebook has no power and no active LEDs.
• The notebook does not start.
• The battery charge indicator light does not turn on when the battery is installed and the AC adapter is connected.
• The notebook issues a single beep during boot indicating no power.
• The external monitor functions but there is no image on the notebook LCD panel.

I have the symptom listed above, but their warrenty only covers up til the product number of dv94xx. Guess what, I have a dv9"5"xx instead!!!!!! f

spike

I have a dell, and i like it.

loudsubz

Dells suck...

Cynikal.Mindset

dell xps systems dont suck...they are made by alienware