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Not even a full day on this HP and I hate it. Just waiting for MNF to end so I can run it to the shop.

Hopefully they can fix it here instead of shipping it to the states.

Otherwise I am leaving with a new Macbook today.

Would be great to wait for the quad 4, but I have zero patience for this HP.

2.5 years with zero issues till this has been great. Can’t say/write that about my past Dell or IBM laptops.

"2.5 years with zero issues till this has been great. Can’t say/write that about my past Dell or IBM laptops."

Nothing but trouble with Dell laptops here. Never again. Oh, the hours I've spent on the 800 line to deepest Bangalore. Maddening. Living in the States as I do, I can saunter down the street to the local Apple Store for answers when I need 'em. That's priceless.

My last Thinkpad (a T40p) was flimsily constructed but ran nicely. It's still running, in fact. I reserve it for special usage with a couple of unique apps on it. My current T60p is ...eh. Not great. It's a few months newer than my Macbook Pro but cost more. I do like the keyboard, and its screen is as good as it gets in the PC laptop world. But its plastic housing is festooned with cracks, and there's just no damn excuse for the horror that is XP when put to heavy tasks. It bogs and gets corrupted, needs frequent rebooting, and the necessary antivirus processes slow everything down. Booting up and shutting down take forever, and lately the damn thing won't sleep or hibernate and nobody can tell me why. And then the disk gets fragmented and everything goes to hell until I defrag it, and six months ago the defrag operation killed my hard disk. Annoying. By comparison, my aging Macbook Pro, which I really push to the point of abuse, runs without complaint. Its only support incident was an iffy display backlight after 2.9 years. AppleCare replaced that for free, and gave me a new SuperDrive while they were at it, though I had no complaints.

If you get a new one, I'll be very jealous. The current "unibody" generation is just so lovely, flawlessly rendered, robustly built, and with marvelous performance and features for the money. If you've got the cash to spare, go for it. You will not be sorry.

By the way, IMHO AppleCare is well worth its cost for a laptop.