hp or toshiba laptop?

[swallowedAfly]

following the double death of my macbook i'm buying a new laptop. Narrowed options down to two with similar specs but one is hp and the other toshiba. Always been a mac girl so no nothing about pc makers, anything i should know? Does either have a better reputation?

Am sadly handing in my mac love as they're just too expensive to die in 3 yrs and they need so many add ons (ram and hd upgrades) to compete with cheaper makers now. Lovely machines but even i agree they're taking the proverbial on prices now.

So HP or Toshiba-swings and roundabouts or marked difference?

Can't answer your specific question but I feel your pain about Macs. I'm just trying to mend the THIRD power cable for my MacBook. The other two have frayed around the bit that you plug into the Macbook: dangerous, and then expensive to replace. I love the feeling of the keyboard and my daughter needs the film editing capabilities, but there comes a point when it's just too much.

Not a computer geek by any means, but I swear by Toshiba. I've had two Toshiba laptops, the first one was dropped off a breakfast bar onto a tiled floor and it bounced - and still worked perfectly; a few months later I shut the lid but left a pen in it and it broke all along the hinge, I couldn't shut it any more but it still worked... it just went on and on! I finally upgraded to a newer one two years ago, it's hit the floor twice now and is still ok.

Don't tip a drink into the keyboard though. It isn't pretty, makes fizzling noises and goes bang. New keyboards are much cheaper than new laptops though, and it was fine after we put a new one in.

I just realised I am a complete klutz with laptops.

that's quite a recommendation

abra they've gone crazy! Looking at 3 times the price for a third of the memory and shit sound! I'm sadly done with them.

If my clients would get round to paying me the three months' work I'm owed for I would buy a Toshiba.

going for the toshiba L750-1XK, 6gb ram, 640gb hd, great speakers and graphics, bluetooth, good ports etc etc and all for £389! I'll miss mac but not enough to spend 3 times that.

Ooh, let us know how you get on with Tosh.

That's a cracking spec for the money!

fab isn't it? I can't afford to be a cool mac girl anymore, tis part of my past along with size 8 jeans and dancing in fields. I'll live

We don't need to prove we're cool with Apple stuff. We just . . . are.

this is true!

And frankly mac has become very mainstream these days. Toshiba is the new alternative

Definetly Toshiba. I've got one and its the best laptop I've ever had. Bought dd one now as well.

Well I did love my Toshiba...so much so that we bought DP one...then my Toshiba had a catastrophic failure at 6 months old. I need a new AC input, new fan, new motherboard, and new AC power cord. They all failed. :(

It was under warranty so it has all been repaired (took 5 weeks for Toshiba to repair) and it has been ticking along nicely since...but I am now wary.

It's brilliant when it works and ticks all the boxes...but when it goes wrong, boy does it go wrong!

There was a reliability survey done a couple of years ago on 30,000 laptops. You can see it here.

Asus and Toshiba were the most reliable, HP the least reliable with a typical 25% failure rate over 3 years.

thanks all - really happy with the toshiba. things have really moved on - the functionality features are pretty much on a par with a mac in terms of soft keys and scrolling and such and i love the little button that disables the touchpad area so that you can type without interference from your palm brushing the mouse - very handy.

it also has built in software that links to toshiba online service for identifying security updates etc much as apples do.

i don't think i'll be going back.

talked to some computer boys on the market and they reckoned about £35 to recondition the mac for me and then i could sell it or they'll offer me a price as it is and do it themselves. should go some way towards recouping the costs of the toshiba. the one good thing about apple is there's always some sucker who wants one at a silly price.