Laptops, any brands to look at or avoid?

[daemon]

davepoth said:

Huntsman said:

Thanks. I wonder why the Acer I bought was so bad. It was crawling and task manager said CPU was 100%
constantly.

Probably the bundled virus scanner, or Acer bloatware.

No.

Theres something badly wrong if its running @ 100% constantly. Sounds more like a virus.

[All that jazz]

Jw Vw said:

Lenovo machines generally very solid. SSD hard drive definitely worth looking into.

"Solid" is probably a bit of a stretch. Internally, yes, they are generally reliable but the exterior case is made from cheap, thin plastic with rough edges and I have a T500 sat here to prove it. Unfortunately ever since IBM threw in the towel the quality of the Lenovo's has been on a downward slide although the Thinkpads arguably have the best keyboard of any laptop if you need to do a lot of typing.

I've got 3x Asus laptops of varying spec and model as well, 2 of which are about 10 years old now and all have performed faultlessly. Asus would be my first choice if I were in the market for a new one.

[All that jazz]

Huntsman said:

Thanks. I wonder why the Acer I bought was so bad. It was crawling and task manager said CPU was 100%
constantly.

What is/was the cause then? Did you look at the processes tab and then click the CPU column to see what program is consuming all your processor power?

[davepoth]

daemon said:

No.

Theres something badly wrong if its running @ 100% constantly. Sounds more like a virus.

You've never seen what Acer bundle then...

[Huntsman]

All that jazz said:

Huntsman said:

Thanks. I wonder why the Acer I bought was so bad. It was crawling and task manager said CPU was 100%
constantly.

What is/was the cause then? Did you look at the processes tab and then click the CPU column to see what program is consuming all your processor power?

Chrome had 2 tabs open and that was most of it.

An antivirus program kept popping up,but only briefly.