The laptop market is inundated with fierce
competition among the manufacturers for best
features, price, reputation, and reliability.
Former market giants have lost reputation and
credibility while new budget laptop brands try to
make a dent in the ever changing industry.
To further dilute the market, a new battle is brewing
amongst the laptop brands for top dog in the
new netbook computer industry.
Depending upon your personal experience your
opinion could be vastly different than this list, either way,
It's time to take a look at our list of top 10 laptop brands
based on reputation, reliability, and customer satisfaction.
10. Compaq
The super-portable Compaq Mini netbook is smaller than a traditional laptop, so you can have more fun on the go. It's an ideal mobile companion to your other PC, and it's easy to keep both computers in sync-so files are the same on both. Look good taking care of quick and easy tasks, wherever you may go.
Keep the fun going-wherever you are.
* Surf the web,2 listen to music or watch videos with a 92% full-size keyboard and a 10.1" diagonal screen.
* Share your files, pictures and other content while on the go.* Look good while doing it all.
It's comfortable enough to use daily, yet convenient enough to fit in a backpack, purse and briefcase.
Use your Mini to work on a file and then easily update it on your PC when you get home.
* Wirelessly sync your PC with your Mini
so the latest updates of any file are
so the latest updates of any file are
saved in both places with SyncablesT software.
* Stay up-to-date with friends through e-mail2, chat, web conferencing, and even talk over the Internet.
* Use the built-in webcam and microphone to
communicate from anywhere without wires.
communicate from anywhere without wires.
Designed for ultimate portability and connectivity,
the Compaq Mini is packed with excitement.
* About 1" thin
* 2.35 lbs (with SSM) or 2.57 lbs (with HDD)5* 160 GB HDD6 or 8/16GB SSM
* Three USB2.0 ports
* 5-in-1 digital media7 slot
* VGA port to connect to an external monitor
9. GATEWAY
P Series
Bring your gaming, entertainment and digital creativity into extreme widescreen territory with the Gateway® P Series FX Edition Notebook. These laptops all feature 17" widescreen Ultrabright™ displays to view more of your games, movies, videos and photos. Waiting for your stalled PC to multitask is a thing of the past with 64-bit Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium SP1, an Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor1 and 4GB of cutting-edge DDR3 memory. Don't just power on; power up.
From the ground up, our 17" P Series FX Edition Notebook is designed with performance in mind. Digital creation, intense gaming, HD entertainment: these are givens. The features you'd expect in a custom-built machine come standard—all built into a sleek laptop frame that oozes "vroom." The horsepower of a
desktop in a portable chassis—like sticking an 18-wheeler truck engine in a sports car. Sounds good to us.
The essential aspect of our P Series systems is: They come fully loaded with powerful performance features.
Genuine Windows Vista®, an Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor1, 4GB of cutting-edge DDR3 memory, good-sized hard drives—out of the gate you're geared for media, movies, and running multiple apps simultaneously. And all on a gorgeous 17" HD screen.
What makes our P Series an "FX Edition" is the great NVIDIA® GeForce® graphics—built for high-end gaming, video editing, graphic design and intensive 3D apps.
But it's also the logo and special detailing taken from our powerful FX desktop line and placed here on our P Series. So no wonder our P Series FX Edition comes standard with ample RAM, roomy hard drives and powerful discrete graphics. These fire-breathers are designed to crush conventional notebook benchmarks.
8. Asus
W90Vp
See the Power, Hear the Power,
Experience the PowerTake to the streets in high gear with the W90, a multitasking and multimedia powerhouse reminiscent of a performance sports car. In balancing performance and style while on the move, the W90 provides you with an exhilarating rush of speed, powered by the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor for unbridled efficiency and productivity.
Relish a multi-sensory experience with full high definition audio and visual entertainment at your fingertips. Connect with friends and family anytime, anywhere with wireless connectivity and a high resolution webcamA Multimedia Powerhouse for Maximum Audio and Visual Entertainment
The W90 is equipped with 6 Altec Lansing speakers shaped in the form of a sports car’s heating vents, with 5 speakers and an additional integrated subwoofer, and powered the 2nd generation Dolby™ Home Theater for symphonic audio reproduction. A seamless full HD 1080p, 18.4” widescreen display with a golden aspect ratio of 16:9 provides high definition cinematic images that are a feast to your eyes. Full HD also means that you can enjoy your videos, games and images in pristine clarity and vibrancy while maintaining maximum portability. This fantastic combination of audio and visual enjoyment to deliver a mind-blowing mix of high definition audio and visual entertainment can be easily controlled via AI Touch Media, an intuitive control panel located beside the keyboard that combines hardware and a software interface to control videos, photographs, music, and various other forms of multimedia.
The W90 is the world’s first notebook equipped with a 3 x SO-DIMM mainboard design and a maximum RAM capacity of 6GB of DDR2-800 memory. With graphical performances attaining a 3DMark (2006) score of 15,000, powered by the latest graphics options ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4870 (dual graphics), ATI® Mobility Radeon™ HD3850 (dual graphics) or the NVIDIA® GeForce™ 9800M G and coupled with an Intel® Core™2 Duo processor, the W90 takes on intensive multimedia and multitasking with ease. Up to 640GB of storage capacity from dual hard disk drives means you can store more documents or multimedia for the road. The ASUS W90 also comes equipped with the Turbo Gear function, which allows you to overclock your system to significantly increase its performance by up to 25%*, so that you can enjoy audio and video playback while gaming and web-browsing simultaneously
Connectivity, Communications and Peace of Mind On The MoveConnect to your world wherever you may be with an integrated 2.0 megapixel webcam and built-in 802.11n connectivity that enable ‘real-time’ video conferencing and Internet browsing. Keeping your documents safe are a built-in biometric scanner and the proprietary ASUS Trusted Platform Module (TPM) which is a hardware solution that holds computer-generated keys for encryption, helping users avoid attacks by hackers looking to capture passwords and encryption keys to sensitive data
Exquisite Design for Style on the Move
A breathtaking experience awaits you as you glide your fingers across the W90 brushed aluminum top cover. Lift the hood and stand in awe of the majesty that is the flushed high definition widescreen LCD display and webcam, similar to a top-of-the-line flat screen television. Aft of the keyboard lies high definition stereo speakers designed to resemble the heating vents of a high performance super car. These impassioned design features bring style and class wherever you go.
