Buy Dell if you want to go to hell. I bought Dell Vostro Laptop 1500 a year ago, as they had given an so called incredible offer. A core 2 duo laptop with a dedicated graphics card in a price just of about 50, 000 was hard to find last year.
I checked on several models like Lenovo, Sony, Compaq and HPand Acer and HCL. HCL and Acer did not match my specs at any of the models and if Sony did it was close to a 1 lac in price. Lenovo- they look cool and claim to be music notebooks with shuffle keys but the volume of their so called surround sound is very low. Specs Wise only Dual core without any graphics card was available within 50k.
Compaq and HP was good in looks as well as sound, but there were problems like they were not giving any OS or drivers for the matter. And I Don’t think HP has a good repute in the market.
What lead me buy a Dell Vostro was:- The Specifications as below:-Intel Core 2 Duo T5470 (1.6Ghz)1GB 677Mhz DDR2 SDRAM120G 5400RPM Hard Drive nVidia GeForce 8600M GT, 256MB8x DVD Burner with Double Layer capability 15.4” widescreen anti-glare screen (1280x800)Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth Internal (2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate)Dell Wireless 1505 Mini-Card (Pre-802.11n)85 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic
Besides all these hardware they also offered a good deal ofs/w package like (The thing I liked most is that dell gives you DVD’s of thes/w from where you can reinstall any software even if you completely format your hard disk. Most company’s have a partition in your HDD which stores the recovery files and they give you a DVD which helps you in restoring that data from the backup recovery partition.2 reasons I don’t like first being the hdd space being eaten up, and god forbid my entire hdd can crash what then or maybe catch a boot sector virus)
Original Vista DVD
Recovery DVD (in case you wanted to go back to factory installation instead of your own customized installation with the Vista DVD from microsoft). Separate DVD with all drivers for XP and Vista. Mcafee 2008 I year subscription. Roxio and Cyberlink pre licensed OEM version. On the warranty they provided me