July 2013 | Build Your Own Laptop

HP EliteBook WJ681AW Notebook - Core i5 i5-520M 2.4GHz - 14-Inch - 2 GB DDR3 SDRAM - 250 GB HDD - D

I've had the HP Elitebook 8440P laptop for just over a month now, and I absolutely love it. I used to use a 13" macbook, but got sick of not being able to customize the software to do exactly what I wanted (since I grew up as a PC user). I expect the HP Elitebook 8440p to last me at least 3-4 years. I've installed...

HP Pavilion 14-b017cl 14" Sleekbook Laptop / Intel Core i5-3317U, 6GB DDR3 SDRAM, 500GB Hard Drive,

My review is going to be in sections about each feature or aspect of the laptop and then an overall thought about it.Size: This is a nice portable, not too small not too big laptop. I carry it in my backpack to and from school and I can not feel a difference between this and a small text book. It's nice not having...

Lenovo IdeaPad N580 15.6" Laptop - Windows 8 (Black)

Great laptop for the price, not much else to say about it. Doesn't get warm, very quiet, and a nice design.I hastily bought this as a hurry-up necessity when I sent my good laptop in for refurbishment. I figured for the low price, it would be a toy that I'd used only rarely. I find, though, that for a "toy"...

Dell Inspiron 1440 Black PDC 2.0GHz/4GB/500GB/DVDRW/14.1"/WiFi/Vista Premium

My wife and I have been saving up for a laptop for quite some time. My wife is a teacher and wanted a personal laptop that she could use to work on lesson plans and report cards at home and at work.I could write a lengthy story about everything that went wrong with this laptop, but I'll just cover the main points.The...

Toshiba Satellite L675D-S7052 17.3-Inch Laptop (Fusion Finish in Helios Grey)

I recently purchased the Toshiba L675D-S7052 laptop for my daughter to use in college. After reading some reviews I was a bit nervous, but went ahead anyway.I am not disappointed with this purchase. In fact, I'm quite pleased.I have a lot of confidence in Toshiba Satellite laptops. I started off with a Compaq,...

HP nc6120 15" Notebook PC - REFURBISHED

The equipment was delivered in good working order, but was shorted a 256MB (DIMM). Advertised as 512gb RAM, had 256MB and start-up showed that the system had been altered. Someone obviously removed the DIMM.I e-mailed customer service. They referred to it a defective system, which was incorrect, it was merely...

Toshiba Satellite L755D-S5150 15.6-Inch Laptop (Silver)

Great laptop, plays games very well... not great but very well. Plenty of power, but this thing does produce some heat! Overall ill give this laptop a 8 out of 10, thats condsidering the first one i received was defective with stuck keys. But Amazon is great i have my replacement in less than 24 hoursI bought...

Lenovo ThinkPad SL510 Notebook (28479UU)

I recently acquired a slightly upgraded version of this laptop and I have to say, I am highly impressed with the Lenovo quality. And I'm an IT guy.For those that don't know, Lenovo (a Chinese company) purchased the PC business from IBM, including the product names (one with business clout is the ThinkPad line).When...

Compaq Presario CQ60-215DX Laptop Notebook - AMD Athlon X2 QL-62 Dual-Core 2.0GHz, 2GB DDR2, 250GB

I bought this laptop in april of 2009. I upgraded the RAM from 2 to 4 GB's. I had to replace the screen recently but that was due more to my cat sitting on it. The computer its self is great. I upgraded from Vista to 7 and it runs that flawlessly. I have also booted Ubuntu and it recognized everything. I expect...

Dell Inspiron 15 i15RM-3415SLV 15.6-Inch Laptop (Moon Silver)

I absolutely love my new Dell Inspiron with Windows 8. It was easy to set up and has so many great features.I thought it was a good deal, but just one week after start for two times, it cannot come to normal working state after "sleep" for a few hours, just keep blue screen with only mouse! I can only force...

Toshiba Satellite C855D-S5320 15.6-Inch Laptop (Satin Black Trax)

My old laptop had burnt out after a few years of good use being a older model Toshiba Satellite. Looking for a decent replacement I found myself to this laptop due to the price. That being said, I feel that my purchase was more than worth it. Coming from Windows 7 to Windows 8 has been a learning curve to say...

Acer M5-481PT-6644 Touchscreen Ultrabook 3rd Generation Intel i5-3337U (2.7GHz w/ Turbo Boost) 6GB

Bought it "refurbished" with 90 day warranty for us$55914" touchscreen, 6GB , 500gb HDD with 20gb flash.PROS: price, Windows 8, touchscreen, CD DVD RW drive. Size.Actually is very quick for i5U. I am running MS Office 2007 Pro plus IE 10 and 16,000 MP3s. Win 8 setup was fastest and lest painful of all Windowsespecially...

Toshiba Satellite S875-S7136 17.3-Inch Laptop (Ice Blue Brushed Aluminum)

I just got this laptop today and, so far, seems great and running fast. The only thing I either can't find or it doesn't have is a keyboard backlight. I'm still getting used to the Windows 8 as I have an HP that is Windows 8. Too many things are hiding where you have to really look for them which takes time....

Samsung Series 3 NP300E5C-A07US 15.6-Inch Laptop (Black)

This item works great. The keyboard is really nice especially on windows 8. The screen was nice and wide cos its on HDMy son's laptop that was purchase as a Christmas gift went blank. Nothing could be done to retrieve any of his stored information by the tech team at his college. We sent it immediately to samsung....

HP Pavilion DV6000z Laptop PC, AMD Turion 64x2 CPU @ 1.83 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 120 GB Hard Drive

Works fantastic. It is quick when plugged into my internet and is in almost perfect condition.It is 4 stars because the wifi button to enable it doesnt seem to work and wont pick up a signal but my grandpa is a computer expert and it works fine.My review is about the HP Pavillion DV6000 or DV6500 with 2GB RAM,...

HP G62-220US 15.6-Inch Laptop

I had done quite a bit of research before deciding to purchase this laptop. It was ranked the Highest in Consumer reports, and all the reviews looked good...After 2 weeks, the hard disk crashed and had to be replaced.. Needless to say, I was quite upset, since everything I had just installed on the computer,...

Samsung NP365E5C-S05US 16-Inch Laptop (AMD Dual-Core A6-4400M Processor, 4GB Memory, 500GB Hard Dri

I really like this laptop because its fast and has two 3.0 USB ports for my external hard drive. It also has an AMD Radeon HD 7520G graphics card which performs better than the Intel 4000 that comes with Intel based computers. Overall this is a good computer for a student or casual user.This is a very nice and...

ASUS G53SW-XA1 Republic of Gamers 15.6-Inch Gaming Laptop

I've had this computer for about 3 days, and my feelings on it went from wanting to defenestrate it, to pure love. For starters, I ordered a separate 256GB corsair solid state drive so I can have fast boot and load times for the OS and apps. Now, installing an additional hard drive in most laptops requires...

HP Envy 15-3040NR 15.6 Inch Laptop (Black/Silver)

I really wanted to like this laptop, because on paper, there are very very few (if any) laptops that offer a similar package at this price point (up to 30% off MSRP after various HP coupons on the web for i7-2620qm, powerful graphics via 7690m, but most of all, 1080p IPS display). However, after 2 months of patience,...