Been in the business since 1982, so over 30 years. Frontline sales and technical support, so I know my craft.

Avoid HP like the plague.

Avoid anything brginning with the letter "A" (Acer, Asus...ermmmmm Amstrad).

Sony are good when they work but a nightmare when they fail (Sony not interested in talking to you unless you spending more money with them).

I swear by Lenovo.

Built to IBM standards.

Enough said.

Samsung are pretty good.

Fujitsu have the best backup and support, bar none.

which Lenovo model would you recommend that includes the following features:

- dual harddrives with RAID-1 support

- dedicated VGA

- WXGA screen. nowadays it's mostly just 15.6", gone are the days of 17.3" WUXGA, sadly (that's 1920x1200).

- USB3 ports

nice to have: TV tuner with remote control and firewire port.

Hi Manarak,

This Company allows you to semi-configure online and are (reasonably) knowledgeable as well as being open to queries:

http://uk.insight.com/en-gb?src=000087&cm_mmc=Google-_-Brand%3E%3ESearch-_-Brand%3E%3EHead_Term%3E%3Eexact-_-insight+uk&gclid=CMTy8NDE17oCFfSWtAodLRQAiw

Alternatively, you could always ask Lenovo directly:

http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/#ss

Regards.

Jib T

Even if you want to stick with Windows, I would get an Apple laptop and add Windows to it.... it tends to be the best Windows machine out there and the build quality is very good.

Acer avoid....

apple boot camp for the win but backing up the OSes could be a bit of a problem cos mac OS and win OS run on different file systems. One is NTFS and apple is ex FAT.