Replacing Toshiba Satellite L755 laptop

kep55 · Oct 2, 2017

After close to eight years of very faithful service, my Toshiba Satellite L775D is giving up the ghost. (Actually, it was doing fine until I loaded Win10 but that's a different story.) I've been looking at various 15.6" LTs as the 17" Tosh is used a lot when traveling. I've looked at several Acer E15 models as well as HP Pavilions. One thing I've noticed is they all seem to have the same marshmallow keys.
My two requirements are long battery life (the Tosh is lucky to get 3 hours at idle) and decent screen display. No gaming (it's a computer, not a Nintendo or Magnavox), light word processing, much internet usage. A price under $550 would also be nice. Suggestions?

boosted1g · Oct 2, 2017

My first suggestion is to ditch every brand you listed.

Toshiba was my #2 choice back when you got that laptop in 2009-2010 but they have fallen fairly far since then.
HP was never a very good company, low end was crappy, high end usually had lower build quality than competitors and all levels of HP products have equal probability of a major failure that uncovers itself in a year or two.
Acer was good when it first came out, was purchased by Gateway years ago and it went from the great bang-for-the-buck computer to the cheap one.

Asus is my first pick today, and Dell and Lenovo being tied for second/third. With Dell/Lenovo it comes down to specific model I am looking at.

Finding a laptop in your price range should be no problem. Even in your price range should be able to get 4-5 hours battery out of one with SSD drive (assuming medium tasks and nothing cpu intensive.

kep55 · Oct 2, 2017

boosted1g :

Thank you for your input. You did get some history inverted. Acer bought Gateway. And I've heard the same from pro users about HP. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

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