Trustworthy Laptop brands?

[partick.lii]

Hey guys,

 

So school is starting again, and I have no computer to do anything on. (im posting through iPad)

So I have decided to buy a laptop with the birthday money I have received this year from my grandparents. 

i am browsing websites and articles to see which one will fit my price point, which is $500- $750.

Right now, I want to go with the Y40 from lenovo, but am still looking around. I also really like the G505s, but I don't think it's available in Canada. 

So I am asking you guys which brand to go for, and which brand that you guys have had a bad experience with, and I shouldn't go for. Which laptop should I get that is in my price range?

 

Thanks

EDIT: I will also be gaming a little, like light games, LoL etc.

[thekeemo]

toshiba and acer are known to be unreliable

[PokémonTrainerFour]

toshiba and acer are known to be unreliable

I would have to disagree on that Acer point (unless their new stuff is just bad)

 

Lenovo, Asus, HP/Dell (if you want to just work, no games here), and (debatable) Acer are good brands to look at.

[Frankie]

toshiba and acer are known to be unreliable

 

I would disagree. My Toshiba notebook are like 5 years old and working without a problem. 

 

Acers on the other hand are room heaters. My friend had to RMA the notebook two times.

[thekeemo]

I would disagree. My Toshiba notebook are like 5 years old and working without a problem. 

 

Acers on the other hand are room heaters. My friend had to RMA the notebook two times.

maybe its just my experiance with them

[AlwaysFSX]

toshiba and acer are known to be unreliable

Had a Toshiba laptop working flawlessly until it just died for no reason. Motherboard is gone.

[partick.lii]

I would have to disagree on that Acer point (unless their new stuff is just bad)

 

Lenovo, Asus, HP/Dell (if you want to just work, no games here), and (debatable) Acer are good brands to look at.

what if i do want to game

[PokémonTrainerFour]

what if i do want to game

then buy a lenovo or asus?

[qwertywarrior]

 Lenovo , asus , acer

in that order

 

never buy HP or Dell

[partick.lii]

Any specific laptops?

[scaryjam823]

I would have to disagree on that Acer point (unless their new stuff is just bad)

 

Lenovo, Asus, HP/Dell (if you want to just work, no games here), and (debatable) Acer are good brands to look at.

I've had an acer laptop, two of them. My sister had three. What did they all have in common? Something broke on all of them. Keyboards, displays, heatsinks, hard drives, display hinges. I've had to replace all of this on our acer laptops within 5 years. I owned better laptops and had no trouble in the same amount of time it took to go through 5 acers. Acer is bad, cheap junk. Just accept it and move on.

[Coombzy]

Avoid Packard Bell and HP laptops. Acer are a good brand I know friends who have had theirs for years and continue to buy them.

[Sauron]

Asus, dell, lenovo, apple (I wouldn't buy anything from them but they're certainly reliable. not worth your money given your needs though)

[TheKDub]

ASUS, and Lenovo are two good ones.

 

Avoid acer if you can, same for HP.

 

Wouldn't suggest dell, same with toshiba.

[Guest]

I've experienced Toshiba, HP and IBM/Lenovo in work and there's nothing wrong with HP IMO. I currently use a 640 G1 laptop which is light, fast and quiet. Tosh weren't bad so I bought one a couple of years ago but it started booting with no display. Try it an hour later and it would work. Not happened since I installed Linux on it. Avoid Lenovo though. Sooooo many HDD failures over the years on IBM/Lenovo laptops. Also made with poor quality plastic IMO.

[OriginalPromise]

Fuck Dell, Sony and Apple.

Samsung shall inherit the Laptop market.

[GregButcher]

Lenovo makes good laptops with decent specs, I have one its been 4 year old now, had no problem with it so far, only needed to get the dust out of it.

[Scionyde]

My work laptop, a HP EliteBook 8460p is actually pretty damn good. Nice aluminum finish that doesn't attract fingerprints, and I've dropped it in the parking lot twice already, and yet it works perfectly fine. 

 

That's just my personal experience with one laptop, but then again this thread is likely filled with people's single experiences coupled with "Well my friend said..." or "Well this other guy on the internet said..."