Gateway Parts

Is gateway laptops any good or stick with a toshiba sattilite?

here is the gateway im looking at http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olstemplatemapper.jsp?id=1218125777907&type=product here is the toshiba im looking at http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Toshiba+-+Satellite+Laptop+with+Intel%26%23174%3B+Core%26%23153%3B2+Duo+Processor+-+Midnight+Breeze/9549045.p?id=1218122295053&skuId=9549045 which one do u recommend? and why?

Public Comments

1. most laptops are basically the same,so pick the one that you thinks looks the best and you like.
2. I recommend a dell Better track records on major repairs
3. Toshiba built the first IBM-PC based laptop in 1985. Toshiba was the first company to put a CD-Rom in a laptop. Toshiba was the first company to put a color screen on a laptop. Toshiba was the first company to put a DVD-Rom in a laptop. Toshiba doesn't make desktops... only laptops. Currently, if you register your Toshiba with the manufacturer, AND you make use of the built0in security (BIOS password at a minimum) AND it is stolen from you, the only way to clear that BIOS password is to send it back to Toshiba. If it *is* sent back to Toshiba, Toshiba will contact the registered owner first (you) and ship it back to you. So, if your Toshiba is stolen, it is either going to be a brick and be good to no one, or it will get back to you. As a laptop repairman, the majority of Toshibas that came acros my bench were user issues..... software related, as opposed to hardware problems. I saw more Dells that needed hardware repairs than any other brand. Gateways tend to run hot, and collect more dust than other models, because of the way the parts are laid out internally, thus requiring to be taken apart and cleaned more frequently. I'm a Toshiba owner. I've been beating the daylights out of my A75 for several years, and I got it used from a guy who had been beating the daylights out of it before he broke the power port adaper (by dropping it on the power cord). He bought a new Toshiba, and gave me that one in echange for the data off the drive. I repaired the unit, and it is still my favorite computer. Sure, it's only got 1.5gb or RAM and a 3.33ghz processor, but it is stable, it has traveled across the country with me, Linux Mint installed on it without needing a single driver (Dual Boot with the original XP Home), and it does everything I need it to do... namely some light gaming (Ghost Recon, Neverwinter Nights), movie ripping/decoding, movie encoding (Avi back to DVD), movie editing (and making music videos from scratch) and of course, surfing, office applications and more. I'm using it now, in fact. end of line