Good laptop for my dad?

[coopdog]

My dad is looking to get a laptop, of course I showed him the ibooks and powerbooks but, "I don't know apples!"

I have been tring to convince him for years that Apple makes a much better computer and package blah, blah, blah...



My dad would just use it for word prosessing, internet, old people bisness stuff. He is looking at the IBM T Series 41. It looks pretty cool. I would be using it too some of the time so I don't really want him to get the really slow 64Mb ram model.

But are there any other good laptop manufactures out there or any models you can suggest? Thanks!

 

[richland]

But are there any other good laptop manufactures out there or any models you can suggest? Thanks!

Check out HP/Compaq/Toshiba

They have some really good models.

 

[poopyhead]

Fujitsu
they are really well designed
used to have a lifebook
and
for a wintel
it was wonderful

 

[abhishekit]

IBM t41p has my vote...they look best in the windows world.

cheers

 

[richland]

forgot to mention alienware too. Don't forget to check out their centrino line. at less weight than the powerbook, they are very nice!

 

[reh]

I just researched PC laptops rather extensively.

Look at: Dell, Fujitsu, Sager, Alienware, Sony, and Toshiba.
Shy away from: Gateway, Micro Express, eMachines, Sharp, Chem USA, Acer, Amax, Averatec, Hewlett Packard, and Compaq.

I was more or less looking for the PC equivalent of something around a 12" iBook or a 15" Powerbook that was under $2000 with XP Pro and Office. I had it narrowed down to a Dell Inspiron 600m, Fujitsu E4000D, and a Sager NP3750c. Went with the Dell. YMMV.

 

[iostream.h]

I would go with the IBM or a Sony

 

[mactastic]

Get him an iBook and put VPC on it.

Just kidding, hopefully the new VPC will be fast enough to pull that off though.

 

[Apple //e]

when it comes to pc laptops, theres only one choice : ibm

the t4x series is really good