I like Toshiba, I jsut bought a 17" HP notebook with a built in finger print scanner for a Christmas present. I work for a company that has exclusively Dells. They seem to be OK. I think there a lot of companies that use Dell. I know the US Government has all Dells. The last job I had I went to DOJ and Dept of the inter, they had all Dell. So ther are one heck of a lot of parts on places like ebay. Especially if you get a Latitude. I still like my Toshiba , IT seems more rugged, thicker plastic, especially on the back of the display. I take my toshiba in the car, it runs my OBD2 scanner software to mod my car's OS.