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I like Dell, I used to love Dell, but I've had two.
Every laptop has its quirks, but Dell tech's are a joke. My original Inspiron 8000 had a problem where I would type and my mouse cursor would go completely nuts jumping about and clicking, obviously screwing up anything I typed. I found a workaround by trial and error, Dell's official fix for it was to turn off the trackpoint and touchpad and use a mouse. This was the official fix on my brand new top of the line laptop. Currently, if you buy a Dell, fork up the extra $100 or so, buy it as a small business for the business tech support, otherwise you will speak to their outsourced techs, which know less about your laptop than you do.
Of the systems I've worked on (pretty much all of them in the past two years), Toshiba and IBM seem to have the least of the quirks and driver oddities, although the cheapest Toshiba I can remember is about $1200, a good, solid unit. When it comes down to it, there are only 4 notebook manufacturers, everyone else sends a list of specifications to them and they build it as such. Quite often, the Centrino laptops are all based on the same core parts, sometimes offering a different LCD and palmrest, but 90% are essentially identical, right down to the motherboard.
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