I need a new laptop! DUDE I got a Dell!

I get 3 years out of my laptops. My current Sony is no exception. It is still plenty fast, T7250/4GB Ram/500GB HD BUT

-Motherboard issue (I guess) at times, it will not start up, I have to actually physically remove the HD, and put it back in, then it starts fine

-Battery is smoked, so i leave it plugged in, and the power plug on the side is loose and worn, and I constantly lose connection to the power cord.

So, I am looking at new ones.

Anybody have, or know about the new Dell XPS Studio 16??

I have had great luck with Dell and Sony. Thought I might go back to a Dell.

I don't want to hear anything about Apples. Ya hear me, Tobias?

 

Apple will sell you one with half of the features you need for twice the price of a premium PC Laptop.

Hard to pass up on that.

 

I have had Dell's and Sony's. Dell's last a lot longer, in my own opinion. I bought a Latitude 830 (through my work) 3 years ago and it is still kicking. The only thing I have done to it is installed more ram and upgraded to Windows 7 Pro

My next laptop will be AlienWare

 

I'm having very good luck with the three HP laptops we have . One travels with me daily (has for three years now) and works great. The others are at home, but I've had zero problems. One is almost 4 years old and the other about 6 months. All I've done is upgrade the ram in the oldest one.

I'm no HP cheerleader but my experience has been much better than I would have expected.

 

I am diggin' this new Sony:

http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs...10151&langId=-1&productId=8198552921666192867

 

We run HP laptops at work (Workstations). They're high end machines, and need to be, in order to run the solid-modeling software we use. But they're lightning fast, reliable, heavy and expensive.

We bought an Asus netbook 6 months ago. It's a nice little machine. A co-worker bought an Asus laptop and he's also had nothing but good to say about it.

 

It's priced well for the features it has. I've never know anyone who was real happy long term with a Sony laptop though...

 

I had a bad experience with an HP laptop, 10 years ago

This is the Dell I am seriously considering:

http://www.dell.com/us/en/home/note...~oid=us~en~29~performance-laptops-05_dod_d6~~

 

HP/Compaq merger about 8 or 9 years back made the company a whole 'nother animal. I've always had good luck with Dell's stuff.

 

Here's a question for you, Jim;
Is there ANY way to transfer my Win 7 Ultimate (upgrade) to a new laptop with Home Premium?? I have the Vista Ultimate, and W7 Ultimate upgrade disks, so I am wondering if I can do a downgrade/then upgrade on a new machine so I can get the Ultimate on there?

I like the bitlocker on Ultimate.