Want To Buy New Notebook In Thailand

[Wentworth]

My 'almost 5 year old' notebook is grunting that it wants to keel over and die.

I'm on the lookout for another notebook and not really up to date with the various specs. I'm just trying to start seeing what sort of thing I should be looking out for eg RAM and hard drive etc.

I'm the Average Joe, in as much that I do most of my stuff on the net. I have a 250Gb external hard drive, which I use for backups. If it makes any difference I'm not that concerned about the printing aspect. I have an old all in one Printer that I occasionally scan things with; I generally use a copy shop for any printing as it's not economic to use my printer.

My feeling is that I wil probably look to replace my notebook say every 2 to 3 years. I figure in this way that I can get something fairly up to date but without paying an arm and a leg for it. I'm planning to do the rounds of the various places and so don't have a real budget in mind - I just don't want to be paying 50k+.

[johninbkk]

What ever you do, don’t buy Acer. Mine only lasted 2.5 - 3 years. The component that run’s the DVD has died and now a few keys on the key board do not respond with the correct selection. The battery died exactly 1 year and 3 weeks from new. I'm so dissatisfied with this product. Paid 26K which I thought was mid range and expected a few more years out of it, or am I expecting too much?

[boney]

Get a MacBook Pro.

Quality and long life. Once you get used to it, you wont go back trust me.

[jamora]

Get a MacBook Pro.

Quality and long life. Once you get used to it, you wont go back trust me.

Have to agree! Apple are of a high built quality, and much more stable than PCs. However, with the 50k budget, you should probably go for the MacBook! But they are equally great machines!

[stander]

I have tried just about all makes and I reckon the Sony VAIO is the best at the moment.

I have not tried Mac, but just the way the Mac groupies go on and on and on and on about how good it is puts me off.

[badsign]

spend a little time checking out the many websites that will review all the models

and give you a better idea of where you want to go with it.....

such as:

http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/

http://www.notebookreview.com/

good luck

[NanLaew]

I recommend ASUS but shop around and look for specials that may have extendible warranties. Normal is 1-year but they do have additional 12-month extensions you apply for on line at no extra cost. If you see something you like here and you have the opportunity to pop down to Singapore, you can probably get the same one, possibly with a higher spec for a better price. This based on my looking for a replacement about 6 months ago. The units available in Singapore had higher specs than the same base models on the US market and I usually found the US best for prices.

I find laptops, regardless of brand have a useful life of about 3 years with mostly the small things like speakers, or dead keys or dodgy optical drives failing first. However, I travel extensively and beat the crap out of mine so surprised that the 'average' user wouldn't get a longer service life out of it. Maybe you aint average!