What's wrong with the reviews on Amazon? Not analysing the individual opinions they still provide some good indication IMHO if there is some 50 reviews or more. If you see many people complaining about some very specific issues (technical or customer service related) this usually tells the story. Even better, if there is a response from the seller/manufacturer.NorrinRadd wrote:Find myself in a bind where I need to buy a laptop quickly without adequate time to research. This is for a very basic user so no frills and low cast are the drivers
Some of the usual sites such as CNET, TechRadar, and the like have a lot of good reviews, but when reading comments on Amazon, always a dangerous thing, you get the after-purchase story.
The pluses that the Asus models get by the tech reviews are somewhat nullified by some people's experiences based on what I see in Amazon, so thought to ask here - have you bought a laptop recently, and if so are you happy with it? Does anyone have an Acer?
Thanks for any feedback.
MayDay5 wrote:many laptops got overheating problems
Gold.Brah wrote:The only thing overheating is your head while trying to think of something useful to say on this forum
I posted previously about buying a refurb'd Lenovo T410. The idea is it's something I can travel with (for example: my PC is in freight still!), and take on holidays w/e away. And it'll do what I need during those relatively brief periods, on a small budget.the lynx wrote:i just bought a new Lenovo T450 after I fried my Toshiba. Basic specs would cost you around SGD1400
If I understand it correctly, your needs would be satisfied by <$400 laptop.NorrinRadd wrote:Find myself in a bind where I need to buy a laptop quickly without adequate time to research. This is for a very basic user so no frills and low cast are the drivers
Some of the usual sites such as CNET, TechRadar, and the like have a lot of good reviews, but when reading comments on Amazon, always a dangerous thing, you get the after-purchase story.
The pluses that the Asus models get by the tech reviews are somewhat nullified by some people's experiences based on what I see in Amazon, so thought to ask here - have you bought a laptop recently, and if so are you happy with it? Does anyone have an Acer?
Thanks for any feedback.
The customer support is weighting very heavily to the ratings and may not necessarily be representative to what is available in SG. Also, there is a significant variation for the companies from year to year. It looks IMHO suspicious or just indicating that the variation is within the statistical error (typical variation quality in manufacturing).nakatago wrote:Here's this year's ranking: http://blog.laptopmag.com/laptop-brand-ratings. From what I gather in the tech press, it is more-or-less spot on; ignore Apple though since I doubt it is what you need.
Except for Apple, almost everyone has bad customer service in SG.x9200 wrote:The customer support is weighting very heavily to the ratings and may not necessarily be representative to what is available in SG. Also, there is a significant variation for the companies from year to year. It looks IMHO suspicious or just indicating that the variation is within the statistical error (typical variation quality in manufacturing).nakatago wrote:Here's this year's ranking: http://blog.laptopmag.com/laptop-brand-ratings. From what I gather in the tech press, it is more-or-less spot on; ignore Apple though since I doubt it is what you need.
Yet another thing: a company may manufacture excellent low-end laptops but very so-so the high-end ones (including value for money). Things like this are I believe not reflected anywhere and could be something very significant, especially that the final score differences are small.
Dell has been producing highly regarded systems ever since they went private (again)--it seems the pressure to just dump so many SKUs was off and they could now focus on producing machines people can lust over and give Apple a run for their money: review off a non-tech site: http://www.forbes.com/sites/brookecroth ... -and-os-x/.x9200 wrote:I am not saying Acer is better than Asus, I am just a bit sceptical what this ranking is worth in general. Asus beats Acer by a very low margin, this is another suspicious point. I always thought of Asus to be a completely different class. I am also personally surprised to see Dell that high. There are some other serious companies/brands, Sony, Fuji-Siemens, Nec, Panasonic, LG left unranked or that bad not to be included?
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