@ RadG
"but the current macs beat the crap out of any current intel based laptop."

You do realise a Mac laptop is nothing but an overpriced Intel laptop with a shitty OS?

*Dons asbestos suit and hides from the OSX lovers*

But seriously the thing about a laptop is that it's such a personal decision as to what you like.

For example someone above liked the Sony VAIOs, personally I hate the keyboards on those and would rather eat my own eyeballs then try to type more than 3 paragraphs on one.

If I remember correctly your London based, if so my recommendation would be to go down to Tottenham Court Road with all the computer shops and get hands on with all your options.

As for my personal preferences, the Thinkpads have the best keyboards, the expensive Dells are ok but the cheaper ones fall apart 46 seconds after purchase, the Samsungs are mostly OK, the Acers are good and relatively cheap and The Toshibas are well built but expensive.

As a final rule of thumb, when buying a laptop you have three choices:

Fast
Light
Cheap

Pick two, you can get something fast & light but it'll cost the earth, you can get something light and cheap but it'll be slow or you can get something fast and cheap but it'll break your back moving it.

Good Luck!
(bill, Sun 12 Oct 2008, 13:53, Reply)