i use a IBM t41 and I love it

 

I have a Compaq which is irrelevant to the topic, but it’s a widescreen and they make so much of a difference. Honestly, I would never buy anything but a widescreen again. Well worth the extra money.

Why not look into getting a Toshiba or HP/Compaq now the same thing. If you have the time for shopping around, Best Buy puts them on sale quite frequently. Might be worth looking into.

I have heard ups and downs to Dells. I guess its really how you treat it. My girlfriend has a Dell and she loves it, 2 ½ years and nothing wrong yet. The only thing I don’t like is all the stupid software it comes with.

Anyway, both are good choices, but like I said, I favour the widescreen.

Im sure you'll enjoy whichever one you buy.

Ciao

 

Toshiba's are awesome, not expensive, run great. Have had mine for 1.5 years and had no problems with it, doesnt overheat, is virtually silent and has a widescreen.

 

Its either the dell or the ibm for my school program and right now im favouring the dell simply because of the widescreen.

 

ibm's t series is the best IMO. its used by mosty gov't agencies (like fbi)
and id rather trust the computer nerds they got lookin into all this stuff and figuring out whats best to use, rather than some ricers on a forum lol

ibm r series is just some crap made by acer.
dells are allright
toshibas suck, too many problems

 

IBM > *

we always use IBM at work and we go through thousands of them

T43P's are getting phased out so we got loaners from 15 different companies and did 6 weeks of some serious benchmarking and testing

guess what?

IBM T60 destroyed them all.



*EDIT* please note that i said T60 and not R60

 

I have a toshiba right now and I love it but I do have to switch to the R60.

R60>Dell, Ive used both, but thats a matter of opinion i guess.


Those are the only 2 options the school is giving us.

 

btw, the video card that comes with the R60 is better than the one that comes with the dell.

Listed Worst to best in Mid Range Video Cards

Nvidia GeForce Go6400 (Not the one that comes with the dell)
ATI Mobility Radeon X600
Nvidia GeForce Go7400 (Not the one that comes with the dell)
ATI Mobility Radeon X1400

The quadro series (Nvidia that comes with the dell option) are designed for rendering and business applications, not for games. And the x1400 runs better than the go7400 and for games the quadro series does not compare to either for games. But all are fine for business applications. I guess these are going to be used for school stuff but I will be adding a few games and sounds like others will be to. lol.

 

Ive used a T23 for 4 years. It was a rock solid thinkpad.

I then picked up a T43p last summer and its been rock solid as well.

Id go for the Thinkpad.

 

IBM hands down, been using R52 myself for last 3 years and running solid no problem what so ever.

 

why cant they friggin make the thinkpad in widescreen

 

they do, but not in 'r' series of laptops, i think its Z series for multimedia stuff.

 

I'm horribly stuck..I believe what everyone is saying about the IBM being rock solid..but then again this is also going to be my daily user pc .which needs some attractive qualitys too

 

video card is better in the ibm, you just dont get the wide screen, but the svideo is cool.

 

I wont really use the video card that much really. I'm not a heavy pc gamer..im just going to load counter strike and that is all.

 

ahhh thats cool, I dont play many games either. Did you already get the dell or you still deciding?

 

Still deciding mang...hard choice!

 

ibm> dell
dell> toshiba

so if u want ruggged bullet proof durable.. go with ibm
if you want a nice look and performance without the bulletproofness dell

toshiba ..if you want to replace components n one yr

 

get IBM, i have played CS on R52 and works great

using it for 3 years mang and it is solid.

 

I hate dell, my girlfriend has one, its falling apart, go with the IBM.