September 2014 | Build Your Own Laptop

Gateway NE56R34u 15.6-Inch Laptop (Black)

So I decided I would do a review on here even though I didn't purchase this product from Amazon.I bought this computer from Fry's Electronics today for significantly less than advertised on Amazon or anywhere else for that matter. I picked it up for $315.00 USD with tax, so it seems like I got a really good deal.I'm...

Sony VAIO VPC-Z212GX/B 13.1-Inch Laptop (Black)

Sony's VAIO Z-Series laptops are great in a lot of ways: compact, decent battery life, and great for travel work. The area that they fall down, however, is driver support. Sony refuses to let you install generic drivers for their hardware, and does not push out regular updates to keep pace. For example, my video...

Open Box MacBook Air 13.3 inch (Intel Core 2 Duo 1.6Ghz 2GB RAM 80GB HD)

All is great, Great deal, the MacBook and the extras included are OK. I've been using it since the first day I got it and had no issues with it.Great price!This laptop seemed like a good deal, but the desktop was a little weird-I guess because certain things had been erased from the previous owner. And then...

Dell Inspiron i14Z-1424BK 14-Inch Laptop (Diamond Black)

This review is about the 14Z, this model's immediate predecessor, but with key similarities that make a review worthwhile. I have had this machine for 4 months, and basically I am very pleased that I have it. The keyboard action is terrific, and the placement of keys is perfect, making touch typing a pleasure....

IBM ThinkPad R40 (27232FU) Laptop (1.30-GHz Pentium-M (Centrino), 256 MB RAM, 20 GB Hard Drive, DVD

Can you believe it, a laptop that looks just like a phone. Easy to hide, to avoid potential theft. Amazon should be checking their photos of products.Update, over a year later and the still haven't fixed the picture of the produ...

Dell Latitude D610 Notebook PC (Off-Lease) - Intel Pentium M 1.86GHz, genuine Windows XP Home, 512M

I bought it to replace anoff-brand model I had that blew up.I have been very happy with the purchasethough I do recommend getting it withwindows vista because xp is going to becomeobsolete. (that's why the xp version isso much more affordable..)The shipping was very fast and the productwas used, but looked like...

Toshiba Satellite S875-S7356 17.3-Inch Laptop (Ice Blue Brushed Aluminum)

Great screen resolution, and the built in software that makes older DVDs look better actually works. Energy saver cuts in automatically if you leave the screen open and forget about it. The keyboard feels great, it's just like a full size desk top KB. The two button cursor pad reacts quickly and is easy to use...

Compaq Cq62-219wm Intel Celeron 900 2.2ghz 2gb 250gb 15.6 Win7

This item was advertized as New. Well when I received it I could not get it to log on to my wireless system .I called Compaq , they would NOT help me with out charging me $ for the help , as I it was told it was over 160 days OUT OF WARRANTY , ( so 1 year and 160 plus days !!! *I would not call that new at...

Toshiba Qosmio X505-Q870 TruBrite 18.4-Inch Gaming Laptop

This review is broken into several parts for those that would like an in depth review, or would like to know specific details.Seller: Best Custom P.C. LLCAs soon as Amazon allows me to, this company will be receiving five stars. They are the best company that I have ever dealt with (this includes offline stores...

HP ENVY Pro B8U90UT 14" LED Ultrabook - Core i5 i5-3317U 1.7GHz (B8U90UT#ABA) -

I have purchased of few of these for our more mobile employees and they have worked great so far. The laptop seems to be quality construction and has held up well so far to the rigors of cross country travel. Its fast, light, sleek, and the battery life is good.My complaints are the lack of a back-lit keyboard...

IBM Thinkpad T43 1.86GHz 512MB 40GB Laptop Notebook CDRW/DVD Windows XP Pro

This computer does everything I need--surf the web, write E-mails, watch movies, create backup DVDs of data, and synchronize with my smartphone. The keyboard is great, screen is good and overall quality is very good.The item arrived super-fast, so I have no quarrels with that. However, the laptop was in worse...

Acer Aspire 4730-4516 Laptop Notebook - Intel® Pentium® T3400 2.16GHz Dual-Core, 2GB DDR2 memory,

Love this laptop. It does everything I require, and the price was wonderful. Even received extras, like the nice leather carrying case, an external mouse, and the power cord. The product arrived even earlier than expected.Have an Acer Aspire 4730 notebook/laptop which I bought 1 year ago. The USB ports started...

Toshiba 14.0" Satellite L515-S4008 Intel T4400 Laptop 3GB Notebook 250GB Computer Windows 7 - TOSS4

I dont understand why would anyone spend $500 on a netbook when you can get one of these. It plays HD media smoothly, runs windows 7 professional and office 2010. Easily upgrades to a core 2 duo or core 2 quad and 8g ram for awesome game play. As it is, it runs heavily flash websites smoothly and blu ray files...

DELL Latitude D531 Laptop with 2.0GHz CPU, 2GB RAM, 80GB Hard Drive, DVD/CDRW Optical Drive, Built-

We recently purchased a computer. It runs great. It was in great condition. We are very happy with it. It arrived in a good amount of time and the price was right. I will be ordering from you again I'm sure.This was a great deal and I will be buying again for sure! This was the best deal I found on this...

C655D-S5130 TOSHIBA C655D-S5130 TOSHIBA C655D-S5130

In all fairness this was not bought on amazon but the exact laptop was bought at walmart.com. We even got the 2yr drop break spill warranty from them. The laptop was wonderful for the first few weeks. When we tried to use the webcam we noticed it was very dark. In about another week the laptop began to get very...

Dell Precision M6300 17.3" Laptop (Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2Ghz, 160GB Hard Drive, 4096Mb RAM, DVD/CDRW

I already own a M6300, so I'm aware that it actually has an Intel Core 2 Duo T9500 2.60 GHz processor, which is what mine arrived with and not with the 2.20 GHz listed.It arrived with only 3 GB of RAM and not with the 4 GB listed.The built-in wireless device doesn't have software for Windows 7 and wouldn't establish...

Lenovo G585 15.6-Inch Laptop (Black Textured)

Windows Experience Index 3.3 (Determined by lowest subscore)Processor: Calculations / sec 3.3Memory (RAM): Memory operations / sec 5.3Graphics: Desktop graphics performance 4.0Gaming Graphics: 3D Gaming performance 5.6Primary Hard Disc: Disc data txfr rate 5.8HARDLY a dog for what it went for on Black Friday....

MSI A6400-042US 15.6" Laptop (2.3GHz Intel Core i5-2410 Processor, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB Hard Drive, Win

Good laptop, the sandy bridge i5 is very nice, plenty of room on the hard drive but it is much slower than what i am used to (im used to ssd's and 7200 rpm drives in raid, so that is a little biased), i would upgrade it with a 7200 rpm drive i already have, but it has a "warranty void if removed" sticker over...

Acer TimelineU M5-481TG-6814 14-Inch Ultrabook (Gun Metal Gray)

I have owned the previous model Acer Aspire TimelineX AS4830TG-6450 and upgraded to this model in the past few days -note that this review pertains to the same laptop I purchased from another retailer, although I did purchase a second one from Amazon for a friend.I will post various technical specs that are not...

Toshiba Portege Z835-P330 13.3" Laptop (Intel Core i3-2367M Processor, 4 GB RAM, 128 GB SATA Solid

I actually purchased both the Toshiba Z830 and the Asus UX31 so I could decide for myself which one I liked the best. Both come with a 128GB solid-state hard drive and 4GB RAM. The Asus has an i5 processor while the Toshiba (which costs $100-200 less) has an i3 processor. Here's what I liked and what I didn't...