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What is the most durable, best value laptop in the market?

I have a sony vaio fj270, which crashed last night. I had it for a year and paid $1,300 for it. Last Sunday, the car we were driving was hit by the car behind us. There wasn't a huge damage on the car, but I think the impact was pretty strong. I was able to use my laptop for another 2 days until it suddenly went off, like the screen was all white. I tried to fix it with sony support but no luck. I was very disappointed. Now, I have to get a new laptop because I am studying for the board exams, and my next exam is in a month...I was wondering if you guys have some tips on buying laptops, and maybe if you know of a more durable one than a sony vaio. Thanks.

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Vaio is normally a pretty durable laptop. If it worked after being bumped into, you may just have a short in the wiring or a pinched wire. It might be worth taking it to a pro and having them open it up to take a look at it. Dont throw in the towel yet. But, Panasonic makes the "Toughbook" that is supposedly really durable.
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Toshiba....the best in my opinion...Sony's Vaio is good but takes about 10 hours to set up and is expensive to repair versus Toshiba's 3 hour set up and relatively affordable repair costs...good luck!
Dell 1420
right now Dell is selling refubrushed laptops 4 under $500.oo
The best valued laptop that is very durable is a Toshiba Satellite M65-S9092.
a lap top that is affordable to buy, and best fits your needs!
Hello ... All notebooks are *generally* the same in reliability, so it all depends on the manufacturer who stands behind it and this is how good their warranties are. You may or may not already know this, but almost all notebooks are made by 4-5 Chinese and Taiwanese companies (Comp, Foxconn, ASUS, etc.) and then bought/rebranded by Dell, HP, Sony, etc., to be sold under their respective name. Most will do "some" design work in-house, but the only one that does all of their own design that I know if is Apple. Dell has an excellent warranty (esp. for business customers) and most companies (Dell, HP, etc.) even offer drop protection; however, I've never owned one personally and they are not the only mfg that offers drop protection. Personally, I've only dealt w/ HP and Apple in regard to warranty service and each has done a pretty good job--always provided a fast turnaround and all shipping was paid by them. HP (like Dell, Gateway, and I believe now Sony) outsources all it's customer service and technical support to India while Apple keeps 90% of it stateside for US customers--I've talked to Canadians on the weekends, so that's probably their -overflow- for tech calls too. If you follow Consumer Reports, you may want to give Apple a look. They're consistently rated #1 in Consumer Reports for Customer Service and reliability. http://www.techweb.com/wire/ebiz/195900095 From my experience having owned two Powerbooks and a Macbook, each has been very reliable outside of a [Toshiba] hard drive failure on my last Powerbook. Also, since Apple switched over to Intel chipsets, you can dual-boot Mac OSX and Windows XP/Vista with Bootcamp (free), or run them together via Parallels ($80). Whatever you decide to get, make sure you get what fits your needs before your wants; I'd hate to tell someone they need to buy a $1,000+ plus computer when a $599 computer would do just fine.