Really? That surprises me. Kinda turns my world upside down. I guess dells wouldn't be bad if you were looking for a good deal, sometimes they have deals were their notebooks are like 500 usd cheaper (or something like that). But I still wouldn't get one if my life depened on it. The question is, why do you want a notebook? I bought one because one summer I was traveling alot and wanted to stay in touch with my friends. My personal choice is a desktop just because you can build them your self and they have urber deals. I want to get a new Laptop, because the laptop i currently use isn't working well enough it's been through alot with the hard drive by crashing alot :| also im going to use this going for School, traveling with it and playing games on it.