A New Laptop

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Originally Posted by fargon

I'm thinking about getting a Lenovo does anybody know anything about them?

Simple benchmark for any better manufacturer. It comes with comprehensive hardware diagnostics - for free. Any problem and the defect is immediately identified - without lots of confusion, swapping parts, etc.

For example, my Dell laptop suddenly had strange characters appearing intermittently on its screen - when room temperatures exceeded 90 degrees F. Executed diagnostic. It found one defective memory location in the GPU memory. Video card replaced for free under the warranty. No problems since in ten years and operation even at temperatures approaching 100 F.

All manufacturers have those diagnostics. Only a few more responsible ones will provide them, for free, to customers - with the computer, on a partition in the hard drive, or on their web site.