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| said by Kiwi  :Excuse me the slaptop comment referred to generic gerbil laptops of any ilk and not intended to defame anybody or their purchase preference.  Some are starting to get with the game plan, it's a slow road though. Buying want you want, is indeed a separate issue to buying what you need and cuts both ways; provided what one buys, works for what one needs there is a no contest situation. Yep, I agree. You know, it is never a problem when we can buy what we "want"...not many users with $2.5K notebooks are complaining about 'em! 
It is in the budget class that most of the "hard feelings" exist, and it is a bit odd that we tend to praise/blame brands when it is really usually the configuration that is in question!
Not so much in this forum, as there tend to be "educated" users, but in many other forums I see a repeating reaction that tends to go like this:
"I hate (name your brand) laptops, because I bought one, and (A) I dropped it, and the cheap plastic case did not hold up like a titanium-alloy case would...(B) The Celeron CPU ran real weak (C) Crysis didn't run so hot on the poky integrated graphics that came on this (D) All of the above.
When choosing a laptop, I always key in on exactly what I expect of it...games...graphics...durability...whatever...then, I decide what hardware features I need for that laptop to fill those needs. In fact, in today's computers, CPU actually is not often a flaming issue to me...as long as it is sufficient to get the job done.
Only then do I start looking at which brands carry which models that meet those needs.
Recently I read a post from a guy griping about the "cheap" Dell Vostro that he bought...wouldn't play games worth a damn, and not all that solidly constructed...well hell! He bought it with integrated graphics, a puny hard drive, and one of the lowest rated CPUs! It probably went for somewheres around $550 give or take a few bucks...whaddya expect???
Then again, my mom is thinking about buying an Acer laptop that is on sale for $450. Celeron CPU, 1gb ram, 120gb drive, Vista Basic...but she will only use it for email, on-line shopping, very basic stuff. I expect that she will like it just fine.
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