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Very nice, both the ones I have are AMD Athlon XP based, ones a tower and the other a mini-tower. Never had a problem with them :D

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I use a Toshiba Satellite Pro.... not bad build quality, and the one I have has Harman Kardon speakers (although they still sound naff). Handles games quite nicely too.... although I'd not really know that, seeing as though it's my work machine and not intended for games. Just hope the boss doesn't read these forums ;)

I have yet to see a better laptop screen than my sister's Sony Vaio - for watching films, it's truly incredible.

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The 15.4 in WSXGA+ screen on my dell lappy is absolutly fab.

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I have an Evesham laptop, it's just over 18 months old - and despite their good reviews for everything, including awards for good customer service, I wouldn't buy another from them.

It's been back for repair twice - the second time because they mis-reported the faults in the first place and so the laptop came back to me in the same state (I'd also enclosed a letter with a list of faults on, which they didn't bother to read). I don't know if it's a normal thing, but Evesham didn't do the repairs either - they told me (6 months ago) that they only sold rebadged laptops, but selling their own was something they "were looking into". May not mean much, but it's incredibly hard to get Evesham to contact the repair centre on your behalf, and they also couldn't give me any time limits or shipping details so I had no idea when the laptop would be returned to me.

The laptop is still under warranty, and still doesn't work as I believe it should - with a mobile P4 chip it still overheats, can't be used without a 2" clearance underneath it to take some of the load off the fan, the CD/DVD drive is noisy, slow, doesn't read a lot of the DVD's I have.

I'd hope that this is a one-off - but I'd definitely ask if it's one of their own laptops, or a rebadged one (not sure this is how they phrase it though)

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i would always suggest IBM laptops all the way, the reviews they get are always outstanding, There main downfall is cost, there always more expensive, but if you want a laptop built like a tank (titanium lid etc) with security (T42 range now has finger scanner built in) and little extras like keyboard light then you need a Thinkpad.

but if budget is your option then go for a Dell, when I used to support a company with them, they were cheap good little laptops, although they did feel tacky and had a habbit to fall apart...

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When I travelled a lot, my corporate laptop was a thinkpad 360 (i think). Fantastic piece of kit, light, portable, durable, perfect for the road warrior in me.

The laptop we bought was a dell, it was bought more as a portable desktop for use around the house so the size (primarily due to the 15.4in W/S TFT and weight were lesser considerations, it also meant a slightly larger keyboard is built in. We also have a fairly high performance desktop XP2400+ 1GB ram, so the crunchy stuff could be left to that, as the other use was inflight DVD for the few times a year i still fly, the Centrino processor gives great battery life and overall it fits our needs perfectly.

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Looks like John Lewis are doing some top deals on laptops at the mo, eg A64 3400+ HP Pavilion for £999 (http://www.johnlewis.com/Shopping/Pr...U&Id=230205985)