HP Notebook or Toshiba Notebook 好?

For me, I would choose HP, reasons as follows:

1) I used to work in a school as an IT teacher and support, HP notebooks are more durable and tend to have less problems - even they are constantly
"used" by students - while they won't take care of your PCs. Especially their battery is quite good, many of them are made by Sony (OEM) - even though they are not the fastest or the lightest.

Forget those magazine reviews in terms of reliability and durability as they will not look at how long computer equipments will last for.

I suggest you buy one with middle-priced range (above $10K) with Intel processor instead of others such as AMD - as their batteries last longer after each charge.

2) Toshiba notebooks (so as NEC) used to be pretty good in quality, but not anymore because of they need to be competitive in pricing, and they tend to have more problems - right after the warranty period - my own + my friends experience.

3) For your applications, make sure you have as much RAM as your budget allows, at least 1GB or even more, CPU should not be a big issues in your case, choose the one that suits your budget will do - don't forget in many cases, how fast your computer is depends on how you use it and maintain it.

Hope you find this information helpful :)

2007-12-04 07:56:36 補充：
Sorry forgot to tell you, I am personally using an HP notebook too! :)

我提議你就唔好買Toshiba既notebook喇
雖然佢好出名出靚野，但係我有個frd佢部notebook
用左3個月就已經甩左2個keyboard既制喇，仲load得好慢添

我而家用緊samsung個部R20係專for d唔係好專業既人用
好似我呢d仲係學生對notebook要求又唔係咁高都唔錯架！
個外型又靚喎~~load得都幾快，不過差就差在唔係太大容量
最好就自己買個mini hard disc囉！咁樣就可以放好多野喇
不過整體黎講都算不錯架！同埋又唔貴，我買個陣好係6千幾蚊
姐嘛！你可以試下播

如果價錢同設備差不多, 不用考慮, 要Toshiba!!!

Toshiba不論是否真正日本做, 但佢產品的口碑一向不錯.

HP除咗PRINTER可以之外, 你可以睇下美國的CONSUMER REPORT, 美國NOTEBOOK市場的牌子排行, HP同COMPAQ係尾一尾二的.

照你的要求, 基本上市面任何新買的電腦都滿足到你了, 不要浪費金錢買高級板. 建議你轉用其他防毒軟件, 不然多多RAM都唔夠. 如果真係要一個數字, 目前如果你有1GB RAM都夠用.