Reliable laptop brands

Acer's come loaded with piles of junk ("bloatware")

Apple.

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Originally Posted by Jordy

If you've still got the disk and serial, it would probably work but not guaranteed. I had a legitimate copy of the Student Office 07, but it didn't have Outlook so I just found a torrent for Office 07 professional and it was fully downloaded within an hour, then I just found a key on the internet easily and it worked :P

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Originally Posted by joshuar

Only if you have the Office 2003 disk then it will work :)

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Even though it isn't designed for Vista? Cos that will save me one hell of a lot of money. And it doesnt matter it'd be on two machines?

2003 works on Vista, and it may work, it may not, try it.

Seriously, from what I have heard, Macs aren't that reliable.

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Originally Posted by Tawm

2003 works on Vista, and it may work, it may not, try it.

Seriously, from what I have heard, Macs aren't that reliable.

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Yeah I used MS Office 03 on Vista before I got Office 07, I even had Office 2000 on Vista which came with my computer rofl, even that worked.

When your a student in University, you be able to use your card and buy Microsoft 2008 Package which includes Word/Excel and etc. for just 30 quid, so you be saving alot.

Why not get a torrent or download Microsoft 2007.

Thanks for the +Rep.
I return :D

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Originally Posted by Tawm

2003 works on Vista, and it may work, it may not, try it.

Seriously, from what I have heard, Macs aren't that reliable.

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Well hear this, Mac's are incredibly reliable.

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Originally Posted by Poojie

I've heard awful things about acer o.O

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Mine's been fine in the 2 and a half years I've had it.

Toshiba, only because it's my laptop.. never had anything wrong with it:)

I would say Sony, HP and Dell.

Also - Basically all laptops come with bloatware pre-installed by the manufacturer, because they get paid to include it. It can, however, be uninstalled.

Sony is a good brand, and HP, and Acer :) Not sure about Dell, but I've heard good things.

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Originally Posted by Nick.

Acer's come loaded with piles of junk ("bloatware")

Apple.

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Technically, that iLife or whatever crap that comes with all Apple computers and laptops is considered awful bloatware, not many people use ALL the tools in there ;) Acer do have pre-installed stuff, but it doesn't add up to the size of iLife and can easily be removed.

And Macs are just as bad as any other computer company, when they go wrong they are incredibly unreliable. I know someone who's Mac deleted it's own OS. How is that possible? Just incredibly unreliable, because when they go wrong, they go badly wrong. And Apple weren't at all useful, so she's binning it :P