I'm Looking to Buy a New Laptop

[MadVillainy]

Hopefully I'll be buying a new laptop in the next year.
Basically Im looking for these things
-NOT A MAC or a DELL (I hate Dells)
-Has a Blu Ray drive (although Im noticing that some laptops dont even have CD drives anymore)
-Comes in black
-Very portable, 14"-15" screen
-Reliable,Durable, good battery life, etc.


Does anyone have any models or brands that they would like to recommend?

 

[the dmg]

Hopefully I'll be buying a new laptop in the next year.
Basically Im looking for these things
-NOT A MAC or a DELL (I hate Dells)
-Has a Blu Ray drive (although Im noticing that some laptops dont even have CD drives anymore)
-Comes in black
-Very portable, 14"-15" screen
-Reliable,Durable, good battery life, etc.


Does anyone have any models or brands that they would like to recommend?

What's your budget? Will you be doing a lot of gaming?

 

[MadVillainy]

No gaming. Don't have a particular budget. I mean nothing over $2000, but otherwise IIm pretty flexible on price

 

[Just_Human]

Asus or Toshiba

 

[the dmg]

What JustHuman said.

Also, Lenovo has been very good to me in the past and the Y510p is right up your alley. If you want to go a little crazier, you could get a MSI laptop. Very reliable and you can find a whole bunch of models from newegg and other sites. You can also customize it how you like from a place like xoticpc, although doing that will take about two weeks to ship, but the price point is very good and you get exactly what you want without compromises.

 

[MadVillainy]

thanks for the help

 

[Slushy]

Bought a Gateway that lasted for 3 years. Never had any issues with it until I dropped it on the ground.

 

[Thundercrack85]

If budget is no issue (or at least, not a huge issue), and you don't care about gaming, I would consider an Ultrabook.

I can recommend some good deal sites.

Blu-ray player is kind of a tall order though. Disc drives are a thing of the past, and blu-ray drives were never common. I have only ever seen one laptop with a blu-ray player.

But you can buy an external one for... maybe 30-40 bucks?

 

[Warhammer]

ASUS, baby. Bought one for under $600 in summer 2011. No gaming but I do everything else. It still runs like an absolute champion. The only honest flaw of ASUS is that the sound sucks. But I plug mine to my Sony speakers. Done son.