thanks to all that replied, took the Toshiba back ( gotta love Costco)
went with a Alienware 17"
pricey but looks well built.
fp
At 01:44 PM 11/18/2013, Julian Zottl Poked the stick with:
I wouldn't buy a Lenovo... Just look up their security issues.
HP/Dell are solid brands. I'm still lugging around their "portable
workstation" after 5 years and only recently has it started to fall apart.
Alienware still makes a good box
Sagers are BEASTS.
Julian
Sent from my iProduct, cause I'm iSpecial.... But not in that ishort
bus kind of way...
> On Nov 18, 2013, at 11:29 PM, Joshua MacCraw <maccr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> After what I saw of the insides of a Toshiba recently I'd never buy
> one. All plastic clamshell with no metal endoskeleton, worse it's
> painted with copper (RF coating?) so that when pieces break off
> they're conductive. Of course customer has aggression issue & beat on
> it but still.
>
> I've had the impression Alienware was not worth the money, more so now
> that Dell has (had?) the brand. When I look and the few purchases I've
> been involved in lead me to the HP DV's in $850-$1200 band. Beyond
> that mark I look at HP & Lenovo's higher-end business models but I've
> not put hands on any to recommend.
>
>
>
>> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:38 AM, FORC5 <fuf...@cox.net> wrote:
>> My son's new Toshiba high end laptop fried, literally. Only a couple of
>> weeks old so it goes back, will not even fire up. I suspect the
cpu cooling
>> failed but I thought modern cpu's were protected from that sort of thing.
>> was a Toshiba Qosmio X75. Did run hot. i7 4700MQ ????
>> no harm at this point, was wondering about Alienware laptops ?
>> good specs, what is there rep ?
>>
>> meanwhile I will do homework but was wondering, the power is in
the pack :{)
>> fp
>>
>> Date: Sunday, November 17th, 2013
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Date: Monday, November 18th, 2013
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