Daniel Dalton wrote:
have to pay Au$2,000 to buy one locally?
I wouldn't pay more than $1300nz for a new laptop. That way you can get an upgrade every 18 months, by which time the hardware will be faster, break more often, be more closed and require MS more.
I'm on a Toshiba, don't think I'll buy another one. On this one the mobo died after I had it for 5 weeks, so it had to go back to base to be fixed which took another two weeks. I'm actually very careful with my laptop, it spends it's life on a table (not on my knee).