For business I like Dell's they seem to be very reliable. I have been recomending them to customers for about 2 years. When there has been a problem ( which is rare ) they have on site support which is nice. They are a little more expensive than some but I feel they are a good laptop for the money. Their middle product is the Latitude line. I have one customer that ordered 10 of these for travaling salemen. They have had them about 18 months with no problems.

Most models come standard with plenty of features. The only thing I usually recommend to customers is to order more memory.

Along the sames lines as instronics... I am assuming you will be running some form of Windows. I have not run any other OS on these boxes so I can't help there.

Good Luck