Life span of a laptop?

[disco_stu]

ive bought about 6 laptops since 2000 and even the one in 2000 is still going strong..dell inspiron.

its a hardcore gaming machine- well, was...

ive bought all brands and run all OSs except macintosh.

not a single one has failed yet. my desktops on the other hand is another story. 2 failed power supplies, one motherboard, one graphics card , 2 cd burners and 2 external hard disk drives in the same time frame.

about 3 bought and all upgraded at least twice each.

[Captain Equipoise]

are you high? Macbooks pro, i have had 3 too, don't last 8-10 hours. 4 maybe 5 tops. 
PC laptops have something call a removable battery BTW.

LOL so like a loser I'm going to carry 3 extra batteries around with me so I can get past the 2 hour mark on a laptop!? my macbook pro lasts 8 hours no problem.

[noworries]

I have an ACER with a 18.4" screen.  It very rarely ever gets turned off.  It is one year old next month.  I may get the top Alienware next.  I am getting an IPAD from my partner and a ASUS netbook for my car and traveling.  I can't haul this big fucker around and the battery life sucks

[Deicide]

Deicide,

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I think I will try to get this. Problem is, they don't have this in the UK and this offer only seems to be good for the US...hmm.

[HTexan]

LOL so like a loser I'm going to carry 3 extra batteries around with me so I can get past the 2 hour mark on a laptop!? my macbook pro lasts 8 hours no problem.

If you get a good laptop, the battery is about the same. Plus on thoses china plane trips you can pop in a fresh battery.

[TheGift...]

what about Sony VAIO Z Series 13.1" Intel Core i7 CPU

http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/sony-vaio-z-series-vpcz114gx-s-review/

[devilsmile]

it's almost 2011, yo ucan buy an everlasting laptop with 700 bucks. Times have changed.

Don't buy computers from regular hifi stores where it has everything put together, they suck balls the most, they have integrated everything and they just weon't work..
You allways should buy a pc from a pc store and build it yourself component by component.

[Captain Equipoise]

what about Sony VAIO Z Series 13.1" Intel Core i7 CPU

http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/sony-vaio-z-series-vpcz114gx-s-review/

Vaio's are awesome too, I also have one, and I have to give honorable mention to my Tohiba portege which is almost as sick as my mac book pro, it's tiny, light, hdmi out, 12" display with full size keyboard, not those fucked up laptop keyboards where 3/4 of the keyboard area is just blank plastic and it's 64 bit native with 1tb of hd space.. awesome machine

[noworries]

I remember this time last year I ordered this laptop.  A Lenovo W700 DS.  Dual Screen with every upgrade they had.  It was about $3500 oput the door.  I couldn't wait to get it.  Then I got an email telling me it was delayed.  Then I got another one.  It ended up I got about 4 or 5 delays and everytime I called customer service to find out why I only got busy signals or no one answered.  I was getting so pissed off because shipping went from the frist week in December to the last week in January.  So I cancelled the order and bought the ACER with the 18.5" screen from Fryes.  That pissed me off so miuch.  Lenovo has the worst customer service of any company I have dealt with.  But, the computeor would have been nice to have.