Originally Posted by Alternate

Our salesman has a macbook... with windows XP installed on it hehe

In my experience ive had no problems with Acer. Ive got one near on 5 years old. Still tickin over and the battery still has decent life in it. I would tend to steer away from Toshibas, they seem to kill their batteries rather quick, like my fiances toshiba, it will not run unless it is plugged in (they may have sorted this out, i dunno) and unless you get a top of the range laptop, try and avoid Vista if you can. every laptop ive seen so far (mind you, only 4) with Vista on it seems to really chug and die in the arse after a couple of months. Although i think its pretty hard to get XP these days.