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Dell - I wouldn't say that they are total crap as I have had little problems with them for the past 4 years. It wasn't till around 2 months ago that my Dell actually died and for a 4 year old laptop that isn't really bad (i don't think). The only problem i've had on it was a card slot die on me. They mailed me a box to send to a repair center, and had it back within a week.
HP - My newest laptop is an HP Pavilion dv5000z. Has the AMD Turion 64 ML-40 chip along with 1GB of PC-3200. My only issue with this laptop so far is that they offered the NVidia GeForce Go 7400 for the dv5000t (Intel series laptops) and the ATI Radeon Xpress 200m for the dv5000z (AMD Series laptops). Which doesn't make a whole lot of sense since they put an awsome graphics card with the Intel and a crappy one with the AMD. I've found a chart comparing all the graphic cards that have been made for the laptops over the years and the XPress 200m only did a few points better than my 4 year old 32mb NVidia GeForce 440 Go. This is the rankings of it, the GeForce 7400 Go was ranked about 3rd, the Xpress 200m was ranked about 50th and the GeForce 440 Go was about 53rd. Other than that, and hp hijacking 12 GB of my hard drive for their backup purposes (they didn't include any CDs what-so-ever except maybe the AOL cd), I'm rather happy with my HP product. Makes a good MediaCenter.
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