laserblazer Posted November 30, 2007 Posted November 30, 2007 There was a time when, if it was IBM, HP, Compaq you could be sure of the quality but that doesn't always hold true any more, especially with laptops. I'm looking at the HP 6715b here Has anyone any experience of this model or HP laptops in general? Thanks.
greenfieldsupport Posted November 30, 2007 Posted November 30, 2007 The new HP's are Great! I found like you said, and in this time, toshiba were Very good at making laptops too Now hp went down hill, and if you had asked a year or 2 ago i would have said "DONT TOUCH THEM!!!!11!!1" but theyve gone up quite alot in quality since then, ive mainly delt with the business ones though. around the time hp had rubbish laptops, toshiba had lovely ones, which you could kick down the stairs and they would bounce back up... however they seem to have swaped, the new toshibas (minus the l10 which was good) are abit naff, but the hp's are great, and have cashback offers now
greenfieldsupport Posted November 30, 2007 Posted November 30, 2007 Although it is worth noting that for a Mere £4 more you can get the TL-60 chip instead of the TL-58, which is 2 cores @ 2ghz instead of 1.8ghz id pay the £4 for that http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=4LMZ&SearchType=1&SearchTerms=6715b&PageMode=3&SearchKey=All&SearchMode=All&NavigationKey=0
greenfieldsupport Posted November 30, 2007 Posted November 30, 2007 oh god and a 1680 x 1050 res screen instead of a 1024 one and a radeon x1270 instead of an x1250 get the dabs one!! lol
torledo Posted November 30, 2007 Posted November 30, 2007 They are ridiculously cheap and I've heard good things about some of the models in the range. They're not bad looking either. But personally, I don't like 15.4 inch laptops. Much prefer the thinkpad's 14.1 widescreen (1440 x 900 or 1280 x 800) and also don't like anything that weighs over 2.5kg inc battery.
localzuk Posted November 30, 2007 Posted November 30, 2007 There was a time when, if it was IBM, HP, Compaq you could be sure of the quality but that doesn't always hold true any more, especially with laptops. I'm looking at the HP 6715b here Has anyone any experience of this model or HP laptops in general? Thanks. We've got 3 of them (the 6715b) - solid machines so far. And we've just ordered another 3. I'd recommend them!
dezt Posted November 30, 2007 Posted November 30, 2007 I'm running a HP nx7400 here, i've had it for a good few months andd had no problems with it. Before this I had an Acer laptop and it had no end of problems. HP all the way for me.....
laserblazer Posted November 30, 2007 Author Posted November 30, 2007 Thanks for that. I got it from Misco with £100 cashback.
ConTheITGuy Posted November 30, 2007 Posted November 30, 2007 We ordered a bunch of them recently (from Dabs) while the £100 cashback offer was on. All good so far Andy
steve Posted November 30, 2007 Posted November 30, 2007 The only issues I have with HP laptops is the support / warranty. Call centres are all in India. Our laptops are now being shipped to Poland for repair (is there anyone left there to repair them??) The time it takes to repair the laptop off site. If you can afford it, go for on-site warranty, or like we will be doing next time - don't get any extra warranty, use the extra cash to buy a few spare laptops.
sahmeepee Posted November 30, 2007 Posted November 30, 2007 If you can afford it, go for on-site warranty, or like we will be doing next time - don't get any extra warranty, use the extra cash to buy a few spare laptops. We bought extra Acer laptops as you describe after finding out what a complete waste of time their warranties were. At the moment I'm tending towards HP although we have had a few imaging problems. I have a couple of Lenovo ones on order for a media studies setup, which serves as a toe-in-the-water for testing their quality.
localzuk Posted November 30, 2007 Posted November 30, 2007 The only issues I have with HP laptops is the support / warranty. Call centres are all in India. Our laptops are now being shipped to Poland for repair (is there anyone left there to repair them??) The time it takes to repair the laptop off site. If you can afford it, go for on-site warranty, or like we will be doing next time - don't get any extra warranty, use the extra cash to buy a few spare laptops. I used the online warranty service and had the laptop picked up the next day and returned 4 days later. Why do you need to phone anyone? And the firm that repaired it was in Bristol.
steve Posted November 30, 2007 Posted November 30, 2007 I used the online warranty service and had the laptop picked up the next day and returned 4 days later. Why do you need to phone anyone? And the firm that repaired it was in Bristol. Yep I log issues online too, but when they refuse to repair something or its goes missing you have to call up to get anything sorted, shouting at a website doesn't give me the same satisfaction :-) Up until 3 weeks ago all our repairs were done in the UK. Our last 2 laptops though have been shipped over to Poland.
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