I'm a big fan of Dell as well, although I've not (yet) owned one of their laptops myself I have used plenty and been through the customising / ordering / using process through one of my previous jobs. I firmly beleive my next laptop WILL be a Dell.
Having said that, the 2 I have personally bought and owned have beeen Toshiba's and they have always been great machines. I also remember that many years ago one of the Aussie PC mags did a "hard knocks test" on various laptops: dropped them, froze them, overheated them, exposed them to conditions where there was almost less air than water vapour, etc - all the things you don't want to do - causing minor or fatal problems in some of the machines tested, the Toshiba came through as THE most reliable and durable machine tested, if I rememebr correctly it was the only one that survived fully unscathed.
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