I am or was a dedicated hp girl. i loved my hp laptop because it did for me what i needed but recently do to user stupidity i deleted some programs that i needed by accident (don’t ask)and there is no way i can get it fixed with out putting a few hundred dollars into it. i bought it back in 2006 and its a bit on the heavy and wide side for me since i do have to take it with me every where to get my work done. I was looking into buying a new hp laptop when i learned that apple computers don’t get viruses which just blew me away and because of that one fact I’m willing to put aside my hatred for the apple cooperation and jump on the bandwagon. i guess I’m paying for quality and so i hope to own one by the end of fall.