Comparable line to thinkpad.

I've been a huge ibm, thinkpad fan for many years. My first when I was 9 years old and I've had them since as a home consumer and I always request one at work. My recent experience with my W series notebook service has really soured me to the brand. Perhaps more than anything the thinkpad'ers are intelligent/self solvers (and more active than any other group). I've found trustful and in depth solutions from forum members that surpass any tech support. I think I'll miss that more than anything.

I need 32gb, sturdy build and FHD 1920 x 1080 or greater (video performance is unimportant to me). Price isn't an issue as long as it's some thing reasonable. I do need something transportable (15.6 is the largest) as I do go to the datacenters, from time to time. And I need something good for dev and virtualization work. Also an active community is a huge plus. Asus? Sager? I may go back to latitudes, how are the recent ones?

 

Dell precision line. I was a long time thonkpad user and dell business has been the only sanctuary outside of lenovo t and x series.

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I feel your pain...seriously.

EliteBook or Precision is likely as close as one can get to a ThinkPad "mentality" without actually using a ThinkPad...

I have zero experience with Asus and no recent contacts with Sagers, so someone else will have to chime in on these...I'm not necessarily discounting them at all.

Good luck.

 

I've known many people with consumer line HPs that have experienced overheating issues I think I'll stay away from them. Unless the elitebooks are significantly better built. The Dell forums seem some what active. But I've run into so many dev, network infrastructure, db admin guys and other people in the field that are running a thinkpad. Should I ever run into a problem the thinkpad community is 2nd to none in finding answers, resolutions or optimization. I actually run one of my w520 as an esx host and run the vsphere client or rdp from my t61p. When do Mac Pros come with 4 dimm slots? I can run a nested vm in vm fusion if need be.

 

Don't make a mistake of comparing an EliteBook to a BestBuy-grade HP...the difference is enormous, just like between Inspiron and Precision, or IdeaPad and ThinkPad...

No argument from me on that one...time will show whether it stays that way. Personally, I doubt it, but at this moment it is still by far the strongest community of laptop users anywhere, at least in the PC world.

 

Because?

 

At minimum my machine needed a new cpu fan for overheating + random shutdowns etc. It's a long story but the short of it is that they want my hard drive password and for security reasons I feel that's not a good idea. They can absolutely still test cpu temp and fan without a hard drive password or begin work/order the part which from this log doesn't appear that it happened.

I sent it in on the 13th the first time. They got it a 2nd time on the 17th and on the 25th they tell me they need to order the cpu fan. And it's on hold till then. So who knows. I did finally get a call today so maybe something is finally moving. I understand sometimes you need parts but don't wait 7-8 days to look at it and realize you don't have an essential part when it's been reported it overheats instantly.

HP 04/25/2013 08:31:46 P Hold for Parts - Service call is on hold until parts arrive. 04/25/2013 10:23:00
OS 04/24/2013 10:44:00 P Machine being repaired
HF 04/23/2013 12:06:00 P Hold for customer information
OS 04/19/2013 15:55:00 P Machine being repaired
HF 04/19/2013 15:23:00 P Hold for customer information
OS 04/19/2013 07:01:00 P Machine being repaired
AK 04/17/2013 16:45:00 P Carrier processing request to ship container
AK 04/17/2013 14:42:00 P Carrier processing request to ship container

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The W510 is solid but runs a little hot and has fair/poor battery life.
The W520 is a cluster.
The W530 seems pretty solid so far.

I'd probably still take the W530 over most machines on the market. Keep in mind the upper end HP EliteBook DreamColor aren't budget friendly at my company.