Best and worst notebook you've owned

Let me start.


Best:

Sony A Series: VAIO VGN-A100

Perfect screen albeit the low 1280x800 resolution, the Sony VAIO VGN-A100 is by far the best notebook I've ever owned. With screen brightness and contrast that, for some inexplicable reason is better than Sony's current offerings, the VAIO ran Sims 2 flawlessly at native res, a noteworthy feat during the days of lackluster 3D performance notebook PCs. With all the positive things said, what's more, the design is by far the nicest I've ever seen; more stylish than, believe it or not, the likes of the Compaq Evo n800c.


Worst:

Acer Aspire 5720

Bought the notebook and sold it the very next month. Why did I get rid of it so fast? Simple, it's the worst computer I've ever owned (and that's a major statement... I've owned a Compaq Presario desktop back in the day). While admitadly the notebook looked passable when it's brand new, the white plastic quickly turned "yellowish and worned out" after three weeks of use. Bloatware made the system sluggish, and most of all, unstable. Acer's preinstalled proprietary system software would crash with Windows Vista from time to time, sometimes even forcing a restart. All in all, I can't possibly be more uinimpressed.

 

Best:

Asus G1s-A1

Love it.

Worst:

HP dv6500tse

Nothing wrong with it, I've just only owned two notebooks, which means that the one that's not the best gets to be here. I loved this notebook also, just not enough GPU power.

 

Best:

Acer Aspire 5920G

Low Price+Hi Performance

Worst:

HP DV2282(DV2000 class)

Lack of VGA performance.Stupid Conexant Audio. Not worth for the price

 

I've only had one so far...but I'd call it "worst" anyway...

eMachines M5310

If you know anything about this laptop my complaints won't surprise you...
It overheats...a lot.
It can't run MS Word, any games (or it overheats immediately)...
It is fine for watching DVDs.
My parents bought me this notebook (in late '03 I believe) (it never went back to get repaired)(I did open it up and clean the fan out)
My second powercord has died so I'm not using it anymore, but it still runs and can play movies, music, IMing stuff, you can surf the net fine. It is great if you don't want to do anything the least bit demanding. It actually has held up really well...


EDIT: Best is my new ThinkPad T61p - fingers crossed, loving it so far

 

Best: Acer aspire 5100

Absolute worst: Thinkpad R61

What's worse than it's build quality (which is very very hard to beat) is Lenovo's customer service.

 

the best is this one i have.

the worst one is a Hp that has windows ME and with celeron :S

 

The best laptop I'v'e owned is a Dell Latitude CpT C simply for the fact that it's still running good as ever almost ten years down the line.

The worst laptop I've owned is an Inspiron 1150. Shoddy construction, heavy as a brick with a lousy, hot mobile pentium 4. Couldn't even play low-def video files without lagging.

 

The best I've had is the Dell Inspiron 1520 I'm using now. 7.4 lbs, 15.4 inch. Sturdy construction, far larger and only slightly heavier than any other I've had, can play anything without lagging. And a great value.

The worst would have to be an IBM ThinkPad 760XL. 6.8 lbs, 12 inch. Mostly because of problems with some of the RAM not working. The construction was good, however - it still works so long as you don't need much RAM - and I like the keyboard design (though I've heard it wasn't very reliable overall). Basically it loses because I got it when it was already obsolete and it hasn't had perfect reliability.

 

Best: MBP

Worst: Voodoo m860 (also the most expensive by far). Broken hinges twice, stuck pixels - one only intermittently but smack in the middle of the screen! Wireless that wasn't quite, but was almost totally useless. Several months after its repair and sale, the new owner experienced a few more problems, none the same as above. It sure had a great paint job, though.

 

Best I've owned I would have to say my Inspiron 8600.
Heavy as a brick but untouchable performance wise for the 1st year I had it and the 9600 pro tubro graphics card was awesome still able to play most games 3 years after purchase and the 2ghz dolthan is still more than capable aswell.


Unfortunatly this must put my Dell XPS m1330 in my worst category becasue only had two laptops.

But really absolutly nothing wrong with this machine so far its fast & beautiful and hasn'g given me any problems so far. But being less than a month old it hasn't stood up to time like my 8600. So it ranks lower atm but that may change.

 

My worst laptop trumps every laptop that is or ever will be noted onto this list:

The Toshiba Satellite A70; mankind's most poorly designed electronic!
Known issues among all users:
- random shutdowns due to improperly grounded top cover assembly; touch the speakers transfers an ESD that travels to the motherboard. The flaw is not fixable.
- poorly soldered power jack repeatedly breaks and cracks due to flimsy design; laptop becomes unusable
- 3GHz Intel Pentium 4 Prescott (desktop CPU) heats nearby components (thereby shortening their lifetimes), as well as taxing the battery and requiring a robust 2-fan cooling system that will carpet the heatsink with dust.

In short, the A70 was:
- hot
- short battery life
- drew in tons of dust
- died randomly
- touchpad siezes occasionally
- unreliable battery contacts

 

Best-Toshiba M-55 Second Best- Hp ze4400. Sorry, no bad ones.

 

Best... Perhaps my Portege 4010 but the M100 might well eclipse it. The L100 would be a contender as the old faithful but the battery life and Celeron cpu mark it down.

Worst... not sure if it's the Higrade P4 that couldn't use more than catalyst 4 drivers or the Mitac which has an intermittent screen fault and a dead battery!

 

Best: Thinkpad T42P. Excellent build quality, The best screen - flexview UXGA, the best keyboard.
Worst: Sony Vaio, model PCG-6822. It had a good screen, but otherwise very shoddy construction, The worst keyboard. Horrible wired lan connection. Flaky CD drive. Memory resticted to 256MB (unacceptable for its age).

 

worst sony vaio due to a hard disk crash
best current system

 

Best: HP nc8430, Compaq Presario X1000.
Worst: Toshiba Satellite M50 - hot, cheap construction, heavy.

 

I have only owned two dell d510 and toshiba a100

Both are abou the same nothing special that i like or complain about.
although i was much more happy with d510 due to it was my first notebook

 

Best: XPS M1210

Really no worst . . . I've had an Inspiron 700M, Inspiron 1520, and Asus G1S. All had/have their own quirks, but were nice laptops.

 

Best: A tie between my curreny Sony Vaio C-Series and an old IBM Thinkpad.
Worst: HP dv1635t. That thing had a very bad overheating problem. I took it to Vietnam and I couldn't use it for longer than an hour. Plus, about 4/5 times when turning on from a fresh start it would freeze. I had to use sleep so that it wouldn't.

 

Best Vostro 1500
Worst Vostro 1500

I don't have any other laptop to compare my first laptop with so it takes on both roles. However, for a first time owner of a laptop I am very satisfied if not extremely please by the build quality of the Vostro Series.

 

Best: My Sager NP5320. Never had a problem since day 1, it has (well, had) a lot of power, and it's solid all around.

Worst: Acer Travelmate 4402WLMi. Good specs on paper but it overheated, had a crap screen, was loud, and relatively short battery life. For non-gaming usage the notebook wasn't bad though - I liked the keyboard, the look, and the amount of ports on it. And the price was good for what was in it. Sold after less than 3 months of ownership.

The actual worst machine I've ever owned/used was a ThinkPad X61 tablet PC. Constant freezing (main reason for getting rid of the thing), somewhat noisy fan, the screen separated from the benzel (second main reason), and I was unimpressed with the build quality - it did not feel as solid as I thought it would. I firmly believe the product was never adequately tested before release. I had no confidence in the machine. Lenovo CS gave me an extremely difficult time getting a refund, which took nearly two months to do. It was a mess. Many other people went through the same thing I did.

 

Best: NEC Versa. I had that machine for 7 years without an issue. It got me through college and grad school. It would still be working today, if I hadn't dismantled it for fun.

Worst: Toshiba Tecra M2. It was loud, hot and the case cracked all to crap within one year.

Holds promise as best: My W7J is one solid machine. Its cool, quite, fast and durable. I've had it over a year, and it works like new and it looks new. I love it.

 

I feel ya on that one. Very disappointed by the supposed "bulletproof" build of thinkpads, and even more by the customer service. Guess Lenovo completely killed the Thinkpad line ever since they bought its rights from IBM.

 

Alot of toshiba's in the bad category. Hmm...

WORST: Apple Ibook G3 500 mhz "Icebook". Still remains the most gorgeous laptop ever made but it had issue after issue. (That 1st addition of OS X was a house of cards though...)

 

Best: 12" powerbook g4 867mhz 768mb ram 40g hd. Built like a tank. Took a bottle of pepsi on the keyboard but still kept going. I switched the fan out for one my friend made that had a blue led in it, and made a fake keyboard backlight out of fiberwire and a AA battery.

 

Best: Dell 1420. Even though the first one I received was "warped" and off color, I called them up about it, and I didn't even have to mention the warped part for them to give me a new laptop, a free copy of lowjack, 2 nice pairs of headphones, and a 3 in 1 printer. Service!

Worst: AW M5550. If I try to say whats wrong with this, I'm going to go into a 500 word rant of the poor quality of the heat sink, and the tech support.

 

Best: Sony VGN - N130G. And HP DV2000 Series

Worst: Averatec 3115H - Notebook fell apart month after month (and by a few years the plastic casing fell off) the notebook overheated and by almost a year and half the notebook gave away and died. There is a good part to it though, the hard drive still worked and is currently in my enclosure drive.

Toshiba M70 - POS died in 6 months, returned to warranty check replaced mobo died again 2 months later. Never again will I buy Toshiba. I also ripped apart the hard drive and now use it with an enclosure

 

Best: Tied, my Fujitsu N6010 absolutely spectacular screen, best I've seen still to this day. Toshiba 1115-s103, it went from me to my daughter, to my wife over a course of almost six years without even a hiccup!

Worst: would have to be my current Acer 5672, only because it is the first laptop I've owned that has had a dead pixel. Got one about a month ago

 

Best: Inspiron 1520, excellent power for the price.

Worst: Asus S96J. Build quality was crap, customer support was worse.

Too tired to type more.

 

This is definitely the best notebook I've ever used. The size and weight are perfect. Unfortunately the resolution would be too low for me now, but maybe a 13.3" under 4.5 lbs. will work.

 

Best Notebook:

Fujitsu Lifebook P5020D, ran like a dream, loved the modular bay idea, wish Sony would use it in their T series. Windows XP ran butter smooth on it with 512 megs of ram even when it had tons of malware on it.

But it wasn't built very well, as other users can attest, the flaps to cover some ports broke off very easily and my used Ebay model had many stuck pixels but I still loved it until I killed it accidentally only 4 months after I bought it. Sniff....


Worst Notebook:

My current Compaq V3019US, I hate its AMD Processor. Runs very hot, fan runs a lot and noisily, the 1.3ghz Pentium M ULV from my Vaio TX would best the 1.6ghz Turion X2 in it several times. Ugh, I have a real sour taste of AMD in my mouth. I'm also used to ultraportables since my Lifebook so this notebook is disgustingly large.

 

Best: my PowerPro 10:15 (aka Compal IFL-90). Awesome screen, sturdy, quiet, cool (unless I'm playing intense FPS games), and did I mention, I can play intense FPS games?!?

Worse: Acer Aspire 3000. My wife's, not mine, but man, it's a flimsy piece of junk.