best laptop

[iloveglee]

Am looking to buy a new laptop and would like some advice as to which is the best make. I had a Toshiba with Vista OS and has been very disappointing. I hadn't had it long before it began running quite slowly and nothing I did seemed to make any difference. Now it has packed up completely and I really did expect it to last more than the three and a bit years I have had it. Or am I being totally unreasonable to expect a piece of kit costing in excess of £300 to last longer than that. I have read that Asus are good laptops but they don't seem to be very common in the local shops. We like to shop at John Lewis because they give a longer guarantee on electrical stuff, but trying to get advice is not easy, it's almost as though they don't want to take any responsibility for recommending a particular make or model. I am not looking for something terribly expensive, and don't want to use it for gaming but I would like it to be fast and reliable and not die so quickly. My husband always had a Sony provided through his job and they seemed to be very good but much more expensive, is it worth paying more for a sony? He's retired now so sadly no more company provided equipment!!

[DTCwordfan]

I can endorse Asus, excellent and a bit tougher. Using Windows and IE on it. Keys are nice sized for my clumpy fingers too - originaly targeted at engineers as to their robustness.

[Maydup]

I bought an HP at the beginning of the year and I'm very happy with it, but it was on special offer at the time. I think I had a £500 -£600 laptop for about £350.

[classylady60]

I buy things from John Lewis too because of their warranty etc and I am very happy with my HP Laptop so from personal experience I would go for HP as I have with my desktops too. They also do a price match and I got £30 off of mine after a month because they reduced it in store and I noticed and they very kindly refunded the £30 from my original price. Can't fault John Lewis of HP.

[albaqwerty]

Son has had his Asus for about 3 years, it crashed once due to a virus, but got cleaned and sorted so was back up and running quickly.

I like using it when I get the chance.

His friend has a Samsung and both he and son rate it quite highly.