What's your favorite manufacturer of laptop/desktop/tablet? Vote or post below :)


chart from laptopmagazine
Just my opinions on some of these:

Apple:
I must admit, they're pricey, but you're paying for Apple's build quality and OS. It seems like a rip-off as the hardware probably isn't worth the 1500$ or so for a Pro, but they design that thing to be pretty tough and light for a laptop with that inside. (their new "entry level" imac is a ripoff though xD) (no, I'm not an apple fanboy)

Acer:
Never really experienced their computers, but I've heard some positive things about them and I've heard they're pretty good.

Asus:
Heard they have very nice build quality(among the best of all the manufacturers) and they manufacture all of their parts instead of shipping that off to another company and stamping trheir name on it (what most computer brands do)

Lenovo:
Their ideapad and ideacenter lineup seems okay, but I really like their Thinkpad lineup as it's robust and has no bloatware pre-installed.

HP:
Not much to say for HP, From what people have said, they're not bad computers for what you pay for.

Dell (alienware also falls under this category):
I've heard my share of nightmare stories of Dell's customer support and that they put in cheap parts, but I mean it can't be that bad. Dells will probably be a lot better built now that Michael dell made the company private and doesn't have to deal with sharehholders anymore. I've also heard Alienwares are nice, but super expensive xD

Samsung:
Pretty much Apple except with windows sometimes xD Samsung puts some high-end things in their new computers now like super high resolution screens and fast processors.

Microsoft:
They make the surface lineup, so technically, they're a hardware manufacturer. Their build-quality for their surfaces are pretty good and I think windows 8.1 is fine right now (with the exception of MetroUI on non-touch computers) Windows 8 already has haters and once haters start hating... well.. time to do something different xD Excitement for windows threshhold next year with possibility of free update? :)

These are just my opinions, not complete facts :p if you guys have an opinion on how these companies do, feel free to post em :)

 

dang.... your school district must be rich xD We're only starting to replace our 8 year old pentium desktops with some nice new i5s >:D Some of them aren't even being replaced... we're just loading windows 7 on them due to XP losing its security support :p

 

Some of the districts in the U.S. issue their students their own laptops and iPads to do work (you can't really do much work on an iPad :p) and some (like mine) use the old fashioned paper and pencil which gets super annoying because we have to printmost of our notes... :/ I really wish they would just let us bring in our own computers if we have them which would save us hundreds of pages of paper xD Or if we didn't have one, they could issue them a cheap chromebook/netbook. Also, we only have computers in select computer labs, the library, and in computer courses at our school.

 

-Dells are getting a LOT better now that the company is private. They'll probably never be where they used to be, but they should be putting out some pretty good machines in the next few years.
-Lenovo is my favorite OEM due to their thinkpad line and innovations that work.
-I believe Apple deserves to be at the top of the list above which was made by laptopmagazine, but I think their rating is a bit bloated just cause they're apple, ya know? The reason why I believe apple deserves to be at the top is that they offer a solid machine that they know has no real issues and runs stable. Macs are supposed to be reliable as there are only a few configurations so the OS can be perfected to work excellent for these machines.
-This may be a bit contradicting xD, but sometimes comparing Apple products to others is comparing apples to oranges (was there a pun there?) Apple is a different platform to chrome OS and windows. So it's really a hard comparison.
-Asus and lenovo I believe should be tied as their machines are comparable most of the time. Asus usually delivers better machines performance-wise though.
-Sony, they had their chance, but they sold off their vaio divison xD
-HP I believe might collapse soon though if they don't get their act together :p
http://www.businessinsider.com/hp-to-lay-off-another-11k-16k-people-2014-5

That's all from meh