College help

I wouldn't go with a cheap Dell laptop. I've heard their lower end laptops are very unreliable. Now I've used some of their higher end stuff and the quality is much better, in my opinion, than their desktops. However, the one I worked with a good bit did have a heat problem...

Without knowing you're budget and possibly your needs, we can't say too much. However, if I were to get a laptop right now, I'd probably first look at Toshiba. But of course, I'd want to browse around first :P
 
I'd strongly advice aginst spending so much on a laptop. Regardless of the hardware, it will not be up to par with equally priced or spec'ed desktops. Today's laptops also have a major heat issue, so higher end ones obviously will catch fire :P Plus laptops have many failure points: 2.5" drives fail more quickly than desktop 3.5", broken cases, shorts in wires/LCD. And what if you drop it?

Now, I'm not saying you can't get an expensive laptop and keep it for 10 years. I've seen some really old laptops out there still running just as if they were new. However, this is quite rare...

OK, enough of that. If I were you, I'd spend about $1500 on a laptop. As I mentioned, Dell laptops are pretty good, but I don't know how the C2D's are(very hot?) If you keep your budet to around $1500, save the rest and put it towards a new laptop if/when the other breaks ;)
 
but if it is just for college work you could still get something decent but only spend like $1000 because you wont be needing all the high spec stuff for it.
 
I spent 1000 on my Dell E1505, really nice laptop for the money I think. Never had a problem with it(other than the button for the dvd drive broke, but it was made by philips. And Dell replaced for free, no questions asked.

The only bad part is the C2D gets really hot when playing some heavy games for a long time(company of heroes, FS2004, BF2142)
 
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