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craigwatanabe · 02-05-2008, 02:59 PM

having worked on all of those laptop company's products mentioned, my pick for the best bang for the buck is a Toshiba.

The IBM Thinkpad being sold nowdays aren't IBM's anymore. Lenovo was licensed to take over IBM's laptop business that's why you saw both names on them.

Now however, Lenovo own's the Thinkpad name outright and has gone forward in creating their own line of desktop towers called ThinkCentre.

Like Sony Viao, Lenovo has gone into using very proprietary software especially when trying to wirelessly link to a network. You have to use Lenovo's connectivity suite. If you try to use Windows wireless utility, Lenovo shuts down it's wifi antenna during online sessions. Verrrrry frustrating.

My wife just acquired a Lenovo ThinkCentre desktop for work and was frustrated when the brand-spankin new DVD-RAM drive failed to recognize anything put in it. Drivers looked fine so it was determined the drive was bad and she should return it to CompUSA...Well guess what? CompUSA is going out of business! At least here in Hawaii.

I told her whenever she wants me to void that warranty to fix her computer to let me know.

So she's deciding what to do.

Now Panasonic is a great computer. I have an older Panasonic running a PII Intel Processor and it still runs circles around my Dell Inspiron 2650 piece of junk.

02-05-2008, 02:59 PM	#83 (permalink)
craigwatanabe Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 264 OS: xp	Re: staff picks having worked on all of those laptop company's products mentioned, my pick for the best bang for the buck is a Toshiba. The IBM Thinkpad being sold nowdays aren't IBM's anymore. Lenovo was licensed to take over IBM's laptop business that's why you saw both names on them. Now however, Lenovo own's the Thinkpad name outright and has gone forward in creating their own line of desktop towers called ThinkCentre. Like Sony Viao, Lenovo has gone into using very proprietary software especially when trying to wirelessly link to a network. You have to use Lenovo's connectivity suite. If you try to use Windows wireless utility, Lenovo shuts down it's wifi antenna during online sessions. Verrrrry frustrating. My wife just acquired a Lenovo ThinkCentre desktop for work and was frustrated when the brand-spankin new DVD-RAM drive failed to recognize anything put in it. Drivers looked fine so it was determined the drive was bad and she should return it to CompUSA...Well guess what? CompUSA is going out of business! At least here in Hawaii. I told her whenever she wants me to void that warranty to fix her computer to let me know. So she's deciding what to do. Now Panasonic is a great computer. I have an older Panasonic running a PII Intel Processor and it still runs circles around my Dell Inspiron 2650 piece of junk. __________________ A computer is only as powerful as it's user so build wisely. Last edited by craigwatanabe : 02-05-2008 at 03:01 PM.