Quote Originally Posted by allenb1963
Just remember, the term "Dell Hell" exists for a reason.....

I've been, more than once. If I didn't have that experience of Dell + that of some friends who have recently bought Dells the Dell laptop would have been an automatic choice. I just know that it's going to be an awful experience just to buy from Dell never mind deal with support if required...endless phone calls from downtown Mumbai trying to up sell warranties, mis-speccing machines, late deliveries etc etc.

The HP's look ok but they are running on board gfx, ATI Xpress 1150, I wonder how that compares to my rather cheap and nasty desktop FX5200. If the 1150 will run CSS 'reasonably' then the HP would be my choice.

Probably the dearer version which has a TL-60 and 2Gb ram + XPpro and a DVDRW. The Memory bay on the HP business machines all use single modules which would make an upgrade for Vista easier.

Laptops are a bugger to buy since you can never upgrade very much.