stan wrote:Psyber wrote:Apart from the two ASUS laptops mentioned above, I've picked up a cheap Toshiba with a 11.6" screen for when I'm travelling - Satellite NB10 - A
It is a little slow but does the job, fits easily in my hand luggage, and was cheap enough to not worry about it getting stolen.
It has been to Townsville, Perth, Spain, France, and the UK, so far.
http://www.mytoshiba.com.au/products/co ... ificationsBoth laptops now run Windows 10, while my older i5 desktop still runs Windows 7, 32 bit*, dual booted with 64 bit Linux Mint.
(*Mainly because I have some older software I can't get to run on 64 bit machines or the newer OS.)
Psyber my man. In your opinion what are the top brands of laptops. Hp, Dell, Lenevo etc.
Keen on your opinion.
When I was in an IT business in Melbourne our mantra was
"ASUS good ACER bad".We also quit selling any HP products because we found they got troublesome soon after the warranty was up, and HP wanted to charge us money to talk to their techs about issues we needed help with - in contrast to Canon and Brother who just put as straight through. When told this HP just said,
"You can pass the cost onto your customer."So I'd favour ASUS, or Toshiba laptops..
I've never owned a Dell or Lenovo product but they both have a good reputation.
I like Brother printers and Canon scanners. (Brother printers don't nag you about using generic toner or ink cartridges and you can usually get up to dates drivers for new OS releases instead of having to pension off your printer.)
Digital cameras: (for the sake of completion)
Nikon have nice sharp imaging but have had focus issues at full zoom.
Canon usually have better colour reproduction, but imaging is in my view a bit soft.
Pentax may be a good compromise but I've not owned one since digital days.
My current camera is a Sony ultra-zoom with a Zeiss lens (DSC HX-300), but I have had to alter settings to tone down somewhat excessive colour saturation.