Gateway Computers?

[Shades]

I am in the market for a new lap top...my old Dell Inspiron with a whopping 4GB of memory is filled to overflowing. I was at Best Buy and they were showing me a nice Gateway Laptop...remember them, the company with the black and white cow boxes!
Anyway, it was a really nice light computer with all the bells and whistles...
Question; anyone got any feed back for me on Gateway products? Are they any good? I haven't heard much about the company in quite a few years since they got blown out of the water by the Michael Dell juggernaut.
Any info/experience would be appreciated.
Thanks

 

[svtcobra]

Stay Away from gateway.

Your best options and brand is to look at Toshiba, IBM, or Dell.. I would pick Toshiba (High end) laptops over any. Fujitsu makes some good latops. Also it depends on what you are looking use the laptop for. If it is for business solutions, You should stick with Dell.

 

[Nibbler]

We've used IBM laptops at work for a number of years now and have never had any problems with them.

You may pay a little more for the IBM laptop but they still handle their own maintenance, if required.

 

[insman]

IBM/Dell

I love it when Canadians buy our American products that we have made in China and support out of India!

 

[Nibbler]

Re: IBM/Dell

I love it when Canadians buy our American products that we have made in China and support out of India!

Don't forget about Mexico, they are making alot of the IBM components too.

 

[insman]

Re: Re: IBM/Dell

Don't forget about Mexico, they are making alot of the IBM components too.

Let me rephrase that....

I love it when Canadians buy our American products that we have assembled in China from components made in Mexico which are shipped by Russian cargo vessels and supported out of India by illegal Syrian refugees!

 

[wop]

Is this what they mean by "Globaliazation"?

 

[akizagor]

We've used IBM laptops at work for a number of years now and have never had any problems with them.

You may pay a little more for the IBM laptop but they still handle their own maintenance, if required.

I'm 0 for 2 with IBM laptops. One was defectively manufactured, but the defect did not show up until after the one-year warranty expired. The other had a design flaw. Again, the falure happened at about 14 months.

 

[Mr.lover]

Sorry but Toshiba has a glitch with the motherboard.. our company have experienced it many times before.. not sure if they fixed it with the new models... best bet is Dell.. can't say anything about IBM but they have always had a solid rep.

 

[Nibbler]

I know the company had a couple of Dell laptops brought in a couple of years ago because a new manager just had to have a Dell laptop. We were IBM laptop previously and are again. After about 4 months that same manager that just had to have a Dell laptop was crying the blues to get a new IBM laptop, but had to wait for the next budget year.

Those couple of Dells didn't last long, not sure what happened to them.

 

[Nibbler]

Also another place to check is http://www.tigerdirect.ca in Canada and http://www.tigerdirect.com in the US

 

[canucklehead]

ok i am only going to say this once..buy a Mac dollar for dollar the best value and will retain its value and a much more secure OS..... but if i had to get something that would use bloated insecure badly coded XP i would get the Toshiba it is what i buy for staff that use a PC.... well only 6 out of 740 computers but the Toshiba laptop has been solid and dependable.

 

[shack]

I'm 0 for 2 with IBM laptops. One was defectively manufactured, but the defect did not show up until after the one-year warranty expired. The other had a design flaw. Again, the falure happened at about 14 months.

I think that's called planned obsolescence.

 

[akizagor]

I think that's called planned obsolescence.

14 or 15 months after they were purchased? That doesn't do much for repeat business.

 

[kooley]

i just bought a toshiba http://www.toshiba.ca/web/specifications.grp?lg=en&section=1&group=1&product=2390&part=2373

and so far it kicks the crap out of my dells

 

[Shades]

This is great! Gotta love this community.
Great input. It appears that there are both good and bad experiences with just about any brand and by my calculation from the posts so far; about equal for the three front runners Toshiba, Dell and IBM.
Every Apple user I've met are zealots...as an old PC guy I still worry about compatability issues with Apple. Is it pretty seemless now? A friend has had to replace his screen on his Apple notebook...the keys, overtime, damaged the screen when the book was closed...similar experiences?
Thanks for all the leads and references. Kooley, looked at your computer and it looks good. I'll check out the other leads I've gotten as well. Merci beaucoup.

 

[danmand]

I know this sounds very cheap, but if you don't care about the laptop being a bit clunky, you can buy an off lease IBM or other for $500, that runs Windows98 or ME, and will do anything you want except movies. As an added benefit, hackers focus on XP, so you are safer with an old system. Cheap!

 

[canucklehead]

Shades the keyboard was an old issue not really a problem anymore as far as the OS being compatible it is UNIX...