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Lenovo. T series for work, the cheaper ones for light home use.

:iagree: to agree...this would be a good choice.

take a look at the new acer laptops.. supercheap plenty of power.. I picked one up for under $400 bucks few weeks ago for my wife.

I dunno there, ran over my first wife with a Dell.

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IMO, Thinkpad is a class above Lenovo... Lenovo is just an everyday laptop, nothing too special.

You should also seriously think about Dell Latitude Corporate-Class notebooks. They have a great reputation as well, and personally I'd cross-shop Thinkpad and Latitude.

Dell Latitude E5400 has 14.1" screen, and starts at $599.
http://www.dell.com/content/products...=04&l=en&s=bsd
Why don't you click above, choose E5400 and customize it and see if you like it.

Why don't you just use Bootcamp :dunno:

FYI, the Thinkpad is made by Lenovo (Lenovo bought IBM's PC manufacturing business several years ago but continues to license the IBM brand)

lenovo owns thinkpad. but there is a separate lenovo branded non-thinkpad line of laptops.

and dell's still suck. they're ridiculously unreliable.

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We've got thousands of laptops at work, and rotate them every 2-3 years. While we have tried Dell, we have abandoned them due to very high problem incidences.

We continue to use Thinkpads, and have noticed no decrease in reliability when the brand moved from IBM to Lenovo.

As I noted above, if you want to go cheaper than a Thinkpad, look at one of the Lenovo house brand models.