I am planning to buy a new laptop, and currently toshiba caught my eye (good price, good built). What other brands should I consider? How is HP? Lenovo?
I am staying away from Dell and Acer since I had bad experiences in the past.
Also the Toshiba model that I saw came with windows vista home (I assume this is home basic right?) OEM version. I know I can upgrade this to home premium, but if I decide to reformat my computer in the future, will I have problems? or do I have to buy the retail version?
TIA
EDIT: ok now I added a new contender for my future laptop, which is the macbook pro. I know it costs $2000 which is double what I plan to spend. But if I get a comparable PC laptop for the same specs, it probably would cost around $1500. So there is about a $500 premium for getting the macbook pro.
Do you guys think it is worth it to get the macbook pro? I plan to wait until Leopard comes out (in october) and since it comes with dualboot, I plan to install windows as well.
Any reasons WHY I shouldn't get the mac? is it worth the premium?
I am staying away from Dell and Acer since I had bad experiences in the past.
Also the Toshiba model that I saw came with windows vista home (I assume this is home basic right?) OEM version. I know I can upgrade this to home premium, but if I decide to reformat my computer in the future, will I have problems? or do I have to buy the retail version?
TIA
EDIT: ok now I added a new contender for my future laptop, which is the macbook pro. I know it costs $2000 which is double what I plan to spend. But if I get a comparable PC laptop for the same specs, it probably would cost around $1500. So there is about a $500 premium for getting the macbook pro.
Do you guys think it is worth it to get the macbook pro? I plan to wait until Leopard comes out (in october) and since it comes with dualboot, I plan to install windows as well.
Any reasons WHY I shouldn't get the mac? is it worth the premium?