[sickoflibs]

I have always found Dells very reliable,

[sickoflibs]

The Dell computer windows 8 I bought last ~ April and that I using right now at home is a Inspiron 17R 5721.'

It came with McAfee and MS office already on it with a three year service support warranty.

You turn it on and it walks you through a setup procedure.

So far it works pretty good but dealing with windows 8 takes some work.

[daniel1212]

I have always found Dells very reliable,

We have a Sony laptop which has been good, and an old Toshiba, which is fast now that i replaced Vista with XP, but I use mostly desktops, and would not recommend Dell for that.

Instead, I would recommend a company called AllPCzone , which offer much customization and 3 years warranty and lifetime free tech support, and zero bloatware, or spam (in fact, the only e-mails labor receive them were related to the purchasing of the computer I bought from them).

You always get more bang for the buck with the desktop than a laptop. For instance, for the same price that you paid for the lower end Dell laptop, which is only a 1.7 GHz dual core processor, and a 500 GB hard drive running at 5400 hundred RPM, you could buy a desktop from the above source with a 3.9 GHz, six core processor, along with 8 GB of RAM, and a 1 TB hard drive running at 7200 hundred RPM.

But of course, the laptop was far superior in terms of use that requires portability, college being one of them. And finding the right college for the right purpose is more important find the right laptop. I think most of them more brothels then places which promote character.