Reliable laptop brands

[Nick.]

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


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

Sorry but I find your whole post pure **. First of all, the software included, 'iLife', is just like when you get Windows Movie Maker, Windows Photo Gallery and all that other stuff installed. Plus, if you don't want iLife, you drag the folder to the trash, simple as that. No loading un-install applications and waiting 10 minutes to un-install and such. Also, the iLife suite is incredibly useful and easy to use, plus if you have a lot of programs on your Mac, it doesn't bloat it, as it does on Windows. It doesn't 'slow it down'. All Acer's pre-installed crap is useless (pretty much) and uses a lot of memory.

Yes yes, you say that in every post (in the other one it was your Aunty's MacBook) but OS X will not delete itself, the user must have done something wrong, very wrong. No way would OS X delete itself, she must be computer illiterate if that's what she told you. You also say Apple wasn't any help? Well everytime I've had a problem Apple has been very helpful, so let me have a word with them and we'll see shall we?

If the OS deleted itself anyway, why would she bin the whole computer, she'd either re-install it with on of the discs included or try her hardest to get a refund, you wouldn't throw (depending on model) £699 in the bin. Sorry, but who with common sense would?

[Recursion]

She could have done:

su rm -rf /

haha!

[Holofoil]

Macbook

[GommeInc]

Sorry but I find your whole post pure **. First of all, the software included, 'iLife', is just like when you get Windows Movie Maker, Windows Photo Gallery and all that other stuff installed. Plus, if you don't want iLife, you drag the folder to the trash, simple as that. No loading un-install applications and waiting 10 minutes to un-install and such. Also, the iLife suite is incredibly useful and easy to use, plus if you have a lot of programs on your Mac, it doesn't bloat it, as it does on Windows. It doesn't 'slow it down'. All Acer's pre-installed crap is useless (pretty much) and uses a lot of memory.

Yes yes, you say that in every post (in the other one it was your Aunty's MacBook) but OS X will not delete itself, the user must have done something wrong, very wrong. No way would OS X delete itself, she must be computer illiterate if that's what she told you. You also say Apple wasn't any help? Well everytime I've had a problem Apple has been very helpful, so let me have a word with them and we'll see shall we?

If the OS deleted itself anyway, why would she bin the whole computer, she'd either re-install it with on of the discs included or try her hardest to get a refund, you wouldn't throw (depending on model) £699 in the bin. Sorry, but who with common sense would?

It did, and Apple glorifies itself with how easy it is to use and how things like that should not happen (although that might be dumb fan boys). She's not incredibly illiterate either because she uses it all the time and understood what Apple said she should do about it, it's just a shame that they told her the wrong information and said "That could not possibly happen on a Mac, you must of installed something over it." As I said, she turned it on and it wasn't there, just a black screen with aload of writing. It must of deleted itself, how could you do that with a Mac?!

And she binned it because it was useless anyway, when it did work. She doesn't really like PCs or Macs, but she just didn't like the Mac in particular because of this. She even called iLife junk which it could be seen as, pre-installed rubbish which some people out there may not use to it's full advantage Plus "binned" is an expression, it's actually gathering dust somewhere.

And the pre-installed software on my Acer laptop, and it's incredibly slow, got immediately removed... It didn't even come with alot :/

[habtasia]

Your all wrong!

Packard Bell! Thats what im using now

[Nick.]

It did, and Apple glorifies itself with how easy it is to use and how things like that should not happen (although that might be dumb fan boys). She's not incredibly illiterate either because she uses it all the time and understood what Apple said she should do about it, it's just a shame that they told her the wrong information and said "That could not possibly happen on a Mac, you must of installed something over it." As I said, she turned it on and it wasn't there, just a black screen with aload of writing. It must of deleted itself, how could you do that with a Mac?!

And she binned it because it was useless anyway, when it did work. She doesn't really like PCs or Macs, but she just didn't like the Mac in particular because of this. She even called iLife junk which it could be seen as, pre-installed rubbish which some people out there may not use to it's full advantage Plus "binned" is an expression, it's actually gathering dust somewhere.

And the pre-installed software on my Acer laptop, and it's incredibly slow, got immediately removed... It didn't even come with alot :/

Send it to me in the post and see if I can work something out LOL

[Colin-Roberts]

apple nor windows never break unless it's a user error..

[benno123]

...why the hell would you throw a mac in the bin when you can simply reinstall it? It's obviously a user error anyway. Macs are one of the best computers there are. They're extremely reliable and last a lot longer than any PC will.

This is an acer computer (desktop) that I'm using at the moment. It didn't come with much on it, but most of the stuff that was on it is unncessary crap.

I'd say either Dell or HP.

[xxMATTGxx]

I agree ^^

They even give you the discs to reinstall it! Some dodgy user error if the OS deleted.

[Recursion]

...why the hell would you throw a mac in the bin when you can simply reinstall it? It's obviously a user error anyway. Macs are one of the best computers there are. They're extremely reliable and last a lot longer than any PC will.

This is an acer computer (desktop) that I'm using at the moment. It didn't come with much on it, but most of the stuff that was on it is unncessary crap.

I'd say either Dell or HP.

That is total fricken bull ****.