Lenovo laptops?

[ibanezfoo]

We buy hundreds of Lenovo notebooks for our users. They are find basic notebooks. Nothing fancy. They are durable for what you pay for them which is why we buy them (think on the go sales people dropping them, leaving them in the trunk of the car, throwing them around, etc). Their crappy Access software sucks *** so be prepared to remove it. It conflicts with everything Windows 7 tries to do... nightmare software.

For my personal notebooks I get Acer or Asus (my current main notebook is an Acer G series) but their warranties aren't fun to deal with should you ever need it.

[paul0660]

Cheap and good.

optical drive? There are work arounds.

[xrMike]

I echo stilly's comments, the "cloud" mentality is dumbing people down faster than you can imagine.

You will enjoy this then:

[pdq_wizzard]

the company I work for gives us laptops and I have been using the T series for the last 14 years, on Monday I get an upgrade from my T400 to a T430. the only one we ever had problems with was the T30's there was a problem with one of the memory slots at a flex point and it would always take out that slot.

[AgentX]

I've had Lenovo notebooks for work and find them a mixed bag. I had 2 in the last year that had the motherboard go bust, yet I've had the same cheapo Dell go strong for years as my home computer.

Everyone has a different experience but I thought I'd throw mine out there.

[stix213]

No experience with those models, but the brand is highly dependable. My work laptop is currently an old T60 running Ubuntu. I could walk into IT at any time and have them swap it out from something from this decade, but the thing is too rock solid.

[superbarnie]

I've had the same cheapo Dell go strong for years as my home computer.

Dell is many things, but cheap is not one of them.

[Javi]

I'm using a loaner "G" series 560. Pretty basic but has been doing well for me for a few months now. Their "smile dock" is pretty annoying as I can't un-install this since this is not mine. I can't seem to hold onto enough money to buy the Lenovo that has a Nvidia video card for games:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834312431