Which one?

[iToxicMoon]

I am going off to college in the fall, and therefore I am going to be purchasing a netbook of some kind in the near future.
Thus far, I have narrowed it down to three different netbooks:
-Macbook
-Dell
-Samsung.

I provided links.

So, my question to you is which would be best? I intend to use it mainly for school [notes, presentations, etc.]. Personal experience is much appreciated. 3nodding  

[Ebania]

I know it's not on the list, but I highly recommend everything Hewlett Packard.

HP compies are reliable, durable, sleek, and long-lasting; trust me - I grew up with HP. Hell, I grew up with Compaq before HP bought it out. So from my seventeen years of being alive, I highly recommend HP out of my own personal experience with them.

Look at these babies! Look at their prices! heart  

[Daypaw]

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I have experience with HP, which Ebony mentioned, but I also have a Dell netbook.

I love it- it works great, and if you're just going to be using it for school it should do just fine. The only trouble I've had with it (and this will be true for any netbook) is that it doesn't run games well because of the limited memory. I regularly factory restore mine just to keep it running at optimum, but even when I let it go, I don't have any trouble with it.

My desktop PC is an HP and has run beautifully for several years.

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[Ebania]

maui boy no ka oi

All mentioned suck a lot including HP. Of all of them though, Samsung has proven to be the most reliable brand along with Toshiba.

My HP has served me reliably and beautifully for years, whereas my Toshiba has had problems left and right for the past three. confused (And yes, I take care of both.) Just throwing that out there.  

[Daypaw]

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I've never had a Toshiba computer, but I've had other Toshiba electronics that I wasn't impressed with. I'm also hesitant to purchase computers that aren't well known brands since we've purchased other expensive items from 'highly recommended good quality' suppliers that friends have sent us to in the past, and we've regretted it sorely.

At least with a large brand you're more assured that in two years the customer service line will still be there if you need them as opposed to out of business.

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[Ebania]

maui boy no ka oi

Most HPs are alright, but they do have major hardware problems from time to time and the HP dock gets really annoying after a while. Toshibas have served the people I've know to own them pretty well (except one where the wire for a laptop broke but that was due to the owner's mishandling of it). Dells have a lot of driver and hardware problems so i wouldn't go that way either.

I go to a laptop school. That means that we all carry laptops to school - uniform models and brands. We all have Toshibas, but the computer lab has Macs and our tech support office as well as the lower school labs have HPs.

I worked in tech support this past year. Guess which computers never failed or had any major problems? You guessed it. The HPs. (Come to think of it, the Macs were pretty stable, too.) The Toshibas constantly had issues.

Now, are most of the malfunctions I dealt with the result of mistreatment of compies? I'm willing to bet that that's the case. However, I treat my computers very, very well -- with the utmost care. And though I've treated my Toshiba with the utmost care, I've had some problems in the past with my speakers, connecting to networks, etc. -- problems I've never had with an HP. Never.  

[Daypaw]

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I've never heard of Alienware, either neutral

I have an old Dell that no longer connects to the internet, but it's ten years old and my dad pretty much destroyed it (multiple times) when it was used as our family PC, so I can't really call it manufacturing issues, it worked beautifully for years. It still works for everything else and I'm sure it would still connect if I put a direct line to it.

We have an HP that's brand new that works wonderfully that my dad is slowly doing the same thing to. He doesn't understand that downloading toolbars every time he wants to do a search is a horrible means by which to let viruses into the system and that blowing cigarette smoke onto the tower is bad for the hardware.

I can system restore all day long to clear out the software snafus, but there's only so much I can do to fix years of ware and tare on the computer its self. Not that dust won't eventually get in, anyway xD

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[Ebania]

That is true -- about the fact that, because more people have Toshibas, more is likely to go wrong. And let's just say that some girls are less than entirely responsible for their $2,000 machines. confused

I, personally, prefer HP because it's what I grew up with and it's what's served me loyally (like Lassie, but a computer) for years. But whatever you choose, Toxic, just make sure that it has what you need. 3nodding  

[iToxicMoon]

eek

That was quite the debate, but thanks guys 3nodding  

[KittyKat62]

Haha. Well I have a Dell laptop, and it works great, even though I'm generally pretty negligent in its care.